paul Newman is dead

I was right in the middle a DVR recording of the second part of the PBS Warner Bros story special three-part film which included many Paul Newman clips, when I broke away to check on the news and an announcement of his passing. Even though he hated the movie, the unique minimalistic modern production design of "The Silver Chalice" in their commentary on the use of the CinemaScope screen wide image. Otherwise, he was in so many great films and nominated many times for the Oscar, winning for "The Color of Money."

My favorite Newman film -- "Hud."

When I was little I always mixed up Paul with Marlon Brando. Only in my teens did I learn to differentiate his features better. I saw' Someone Up There Likes Me' with paul as Rocky Graziano in those weekend specials offered in those old days. Cheaps seats seats up front. We were kids little money so that was the only option.

Was his last role in the TV movie "EMPIRE FALLS"? He was a real pistol in that one. He played this hygiene challenged old guy who always walked around with food in his beard.

I saw him and his wife at a returant in NYC once in the late 80s they were both classy folks.

“The Silver Chalice” 1955
"Somebody Up There Likes Me" 1956
"The Rack" 1956
"The Helen Morgan Story" 1957
"Until They Sail" 1957
"The Long Hot Summer" 1958
"The Left-Handed Gun" 1958
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" 1958
"Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys!" 1958
"The Young Philadelphians" 1959
"From the Terrace" 1960
"Exodus" 1960
"The Hustler" 1961
"Paris Blues" 1961
"Sweet Bird of Youth" 1962
"Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man" 1962
"Hud" 1963
"A New Kind of Love" 1963
"The Prize" 1963
"What a Way to Go" 1964
"The Outrage" 1964
"Lady L" 1965
"Harper" 1965
"Torn Curtain" 1966
"Hombre" 1967
"Cool Hand Luke" 1967
"The Secret War of Harry Frigg" 1968
Rachel Rachel” (director) 1968
"Winning" 1969
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 1969
"WUSA" 1970
"Sometimes a Great Notion" 1971
"Pocket Money" 1972
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” (director) 1972
"The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" 1972
"The Mackintosh Man" 1973
"The Sting" 1973
"The Towering Inferno" 1974
"The Drowning Pool" 1975
Silent Movie” (cameo) 1976
"Buffalo Bill and the Indians ... or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson" 1976
"Slap Shot" 1977
"Quintet" 1979
"When Time Ran Out" 1980
"Fort Apache The Bronx" 1981
"Absence of Malice" 1981
"The Verdict" 1982
"Harry and Son" 1984
"The Color of Money" 1986
"Fat Man and Little Boy" 1989
"Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" 1990
"The Hudsucker Proxy" 1994
"Nobody’s Fool" 1994
"Twilight" 1998
"Message in a Bottle" 1999
"Where the Money Is" 2000
"Road to Perdition" 2002
"Our Town" 2003
"Empire Falls" 2005

I had an odd sensation when I received an email from him today.

Wooo.

Paul Newman will always be Reg Dunlop to me.

A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town where

Paul Newman and his family often visited.

One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a brisk five-mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone.

She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went straight
to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor.

There was only one other patron in the store:
Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.

The woman's heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those famous baby-blue eyes.

The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely.

Pull yourself together! She chides herself. You're a happily married woman with three children, you're forty-five years old, not a teenager!

The clerk filled her order and she took the double-dip chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and her

change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.

When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change but her other hand was empty.
Where's my ice cream cone? Did I leave it in the store? Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the

cone still in the clerk's hand or in a holder on the counter or something! No ice cream cone was in sight..

With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman.
His face broke into his familiar, warm, friendly grin and he said to the woman,


'You put it in your purse.'

Mine too - I don't even know how old I was when I watched that - really young - but I instinctively knew watching him play that role - WHAT A MAN!

ok so he's dead. I couldnt put a face to the name until I saw a photo. I'm sure he was a nice bloke.

My friend died this afternoon aged 62. He was a nice bloke too but he wasnt a film star.

Sorry about your friend.

One need not be a film star to rate our sympathy on a2k. We have some very long running threads about people, who were not famous, but happened to be our friends. I am sorry you lost your friend.

My sympathies, Steve.

May he rest in peace

Ice cream in the purse....

I can just picture that, and Mr. Newmans smile when he said it.

My condolences, Steve.

Sorry bout your bud there Steve. Anything you wanna say about him, were here for listening.

Yes.
I'm so sorry you've lost your friend, Steve. And at such a young age. That's very sad.

I'm sorry too, Steve.



To add more on Paul Newman - this is one of the more enjoyable, for me, commentaries I've read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/opinion/01dowd.html?em