RIP Paul Newman by ncbrowncoat

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RIP Paul Newman

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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2008 22:38
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Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:30 AM

This morning Hollywood lost an acting legend. Paul Newman passed away and he can never be replaced. I knew he had cancer but not that he was near death.

He was my first celebrity crush (must be SOMETHING I have about blue eyes?) and still had me looking his way at age 83. He was also one of the best actors in Hollywood. A list of his movies include a lot of the great ones. The Hustler, Harper, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Towering Inferno, The Drowning Pool, Slap Shot, Absence of Malice, The Verdict and The Color of Money just to name a few of the great performances he's given. He was nominated for 10 Oscars and won the Best Actor Oscar in 1986 for the role of Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money.

I also admired his work with The Hole in the Wall Gang, named for the gang in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He used the profits from his Newman's Own brand foods to fund camps for kids with cancer. Besides getting a great product you knew that you were helping kids that needed fun in their lives.

RIP Paul, you will be missed.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:33 AM

CHRISISALL

A man of honour & a great actor.

Thanksisall

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:45 AM

STEAMER

OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, no.

*shakes head sadly* Once again the Big C has taken from us not only one of the great entertainers, but one of the greater persons who walked amongst us. The world was made a better place whilst he was in it - one can only hope it will stay a better place now that he's passed.

I'll remember fondly his good-bad-guy opening shot from 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and my dad remarking suspiciously, Would you buy salad dressing from this man?

May his memory be eternal.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 5:18 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

There's a lovely obituary piece on him and the Hole in the Wall camp on Slate.com this morning. It's hard to read, hard to type- I'm all misty eyed with loss.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 5:42 AM

ZZETTA13

Paul Newman will always be Mr. Cool Hand Luke to me.

RIP Mr. Newnam.

Z

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 6:09 AM

AIRPOTBORKER

Cool Hand Luke dying is like Aquaman drowning. It was never meant to happen.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 9:33 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

How sad. He was by all accounts a lovely human being.

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"We don't fear the reaper"

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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:24 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

Quote:
Originally posted by zzetta13:
Paul Newman will always be Mr. Cool Hand Luke to me.

RIP Mr. Newnam.

Z

"What we have here is a failure to communicate." all slurred out in Southern malicious sweetness.

I loved the way Strother Martin says it in "Cool Hand Luke" and then later Paul Newman says it back to him.

Now that I think about it, if Paul Newman had been in his early 30's in 2002 he would have made an awesome Mal. He was at his best when he played the anti-hero.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:44 PM

TRAVELER

He has so many great performances my brain just fills with one scene after another. A pool hustler, on a prison chain gang, a drunken lawyer, he could make each character come to life.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:17 PM

MISSTRESSAHARA

I just found out about this and I am shocked. I had no idea he was sick. Well I'll always remember him from Towering Inferno. So many fantastic actors and he was one of the ones that stood out among them. Goodbye Mr Newman.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:23 PM

BORIS

I'm so sad he's gone...I loved all of his roles. And he was my first celeb crush too. An amazing actor and generous human being.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:31 PM

RALLEM

RIP

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:00 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

Now I HAVE to watch "The Sting" and "Butch and Sundance"

Also, best Spagetti sauce EVER. RIP

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:09 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

And if you've never seen it, track down a copy of "Empire Falls" - it was a 6-hour miniseries from HBO, and it was fantastic. And needless to say, Paul was extra-fantastic in it. The mini is a very faithful adaptation of Richard Russo's Pulitzer-prize-winning book, and he wrote the screenplay specifically with Newman in mind, since he loved Newman's work in "Nobody's Fool" - also based on one of Russo's books.

And if you never saw the man drive a race car, you really missed out. He was good. Not "pretty good for a celebrity", but REALLY good. Good enough to do it professionally, among professionals, and to win a number of races in big-budget series. He also founded the Newman-Haas racing team.

We'll miss ya, Paul. The world was a brighter, better place while you were in it. Go outside tonight and look up at the stars. You'll see a new one in the heavens; it'll be blue, and it'll wink at you. Be sure to wink back.

Mike

This world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:03 PM

REGINAROADIE

I picked up COOL HAND LUKE on Blu-Ray a couple weeks ago. Will definitely be looking at it. Luke was definitely my favorite Newman character, and not just because he and I shared the same name. And a couple of days ago, I was thinking about him in ROAD TO PERDITION. Even though he went out on a high note with CARS, and EMPIRE FALLS wasn't too shabby (Paul Newman never really had like a low point in his career where his sold out his integrity), I always thought ROAD TO PERDITION was his last truly great performance.

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Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack

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Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:46 AM

WHOZIT

He was also a WW2 Navy veteran, he should be buried at Arlington for is Navy service and his other good works.

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Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:32 AM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

That would be cool, but he'd probably want to be buried someplace quiet and out of the way. Or next to a racetrack.

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Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:29 PM

FREELANCERTEX

*sniffle*

*sniffles and wipes face*

*sniffle*

*runs away crying*

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Monday, September 29, 2008 10:38 PM

SHINYGOODGUY

LEGEND, yes, very much so. Acting and otherwise.

Sad day indeed. I will always remember him as Butch Cassidy (one of my favs). But I will remember him most as a man's man. Integrity and a beautiful human being comes immediately to mind whenever I think about him and Sidney Portier.

He will be missed. I would like to pay homage to my father who recently (9/20/08) passed away. He was a hard working man who gave everyone he met respect. A man who very rarely complained and always had a smile or a kind word to those who needed it. He left behind many friends and family who miss him tremendously. I got to know more about the type of man he was at the funeral from those he came in contact with. Amazing what you can learn about a person from others.

R.I.P. Dad

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