Well, guess I know what I'll be doin tonight... crack open the 18 year old and watch this...
Great man. Great actor. Days like these, when Lindsey Lohan is a "legend", Newman was a god!!
Posted on 09/27/2008 4:55:58 AM PDT by tomymind
Edited on 09/27/2008 7:02:46 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
An unconfirmed report just came in from AD reader Kubrickguy. Newman was battling cancer but must have lost the fight. Long live Paul Newman.
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Confirmed on Fox News.
PS; Yes I always get him confused with Steve McQueen. (I am some fun with my brother who will be reading this thread)
Today is also the feast day of St. Vincent DePaul who was also know for his charitable works. Paul Newman is in good company.
On another note our 21 year old daughter said "Who's Paul Newman?"
We knew this was coming but it’s sad to hear. What a class act. He will be missed. Prayers for the family & those who loved him.
50 years
Uh....Steve McQueen was the Cincinnati Kid. Not Paul Newman.
I’d heard about this around the time of the debates last evening. I guess that it had gotten around the auto racing community first before the media learned about it.
RIP Mr. Newman
May your yummy salad dressings live on.
So True....today 'actors' (except for a few) can't act if their life depended on it. Paul was a liberal in the Joe Lieberman mold -- He loved the USA and he wanted to help the disadvantaged. Paul, put his $$$ where his mouth was.
If you gave Tom Cruise acting lessons -- he still wouldn't be Paul Newman!
He was a class act all the way. He will be missed. God comfort his loved ones in their time of sorrow.
Sorry I have to DISAGREE with you on Paul. A liberal yes, but he put his $$$ where his mouth was. can’t you put away your HATRED of Liberals for a day to morn the passing of a GREAT man??
He will be missed.
In general, he was a classy guy.
YUP; I was teasing one of my fellow freepers who always gets them mixed up..
My deepest condolences to Joanne Woodward and family.
RightWingTeen (aka my son) knows who Paul Newman is because he love ‘SlapShot’ and ‘Butch Cassidy’
A fine man has passed.
Few of us can measure up to his works. He was a sterling example for all, not just for actors. Faithful to his wife, a great dad to his kids, industrious, charitable, and by all accounts a lovely person and fast friend.
A life well played. He’ll be missed.
When there was a road race in St. Pete years ago, Paul Newman was racing then. At that time, his racing partner Fitzgerald spun in front of me on the track, skidded sideways for yards and yards. There was no tire wall where Fitzy came to a rest. He lost his buddy that day. I did catch a glimpse of Paul Newman during that event and I would dispute Frank Sinatra as blue eyes. Paul Newman’s eyes were the bluest, most intense eyes I’d ever seen and against his sunburned face from road racing. I see his eyes when I think of Paul Newman.
Yes it was...very nice camp for those kids!
"One of his most prized fan letters hung over a toilet in his New York office bathroom. After complimenting his spaghetti sauce, it went on to say, "My girlfriend mentioned that you were a movie star and I would be interested to know what you have made. If you act as well as you cook, your movies should be worth watching."
There was a downside to his edible output. The entrepreneur threatened to upstage the thespian. "The embarrassing thing," he enjoyed pointing out in his later years, "is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films."
Try Hud, Harper (all of them), Long Hot Summer; then jump to The Verdict; here you’ll see the strong independence of the character to which he brings what I think was mainly his all along.
Cool Hand Luke’s independence was the most dependent of all - for the admiration of those around him, the goofy scenes, the wonderful upstaging by Martin and Kennedy only amounted to a thinly-disguised and poorly made moral and social lesson upon which the plot rested (rotted?).
Grand Prix was stunning in the special effects when watched from a towering bleacher seat and the least hokey of all the movies made about racing; so much so that it outshined the stars themselves made tiny by the bird’s-eye view and the falling-elevator vertigo that wouldn’t quite go away - I left the theatre with my armrests looking like bicycle handgrips.
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