Oh shit. I love his products. The world has lost a nearly tireless soul who worked hard to make life better for all of us. My sympathies to his wonderful wife. She's pretty damned amazing as well.
What a wonderful live he lived. Inspiring. We can't all be movie stars, but he raced cars, he built a charity, he went to town with what this life gave him.
Gorgeous, wonderful man. I love this quote from the nytimes write-up:
"December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age. "I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said."
I hope I'm like that. I would also like a comparable number of acadamy award nominations.
He and Joanne Woodward were neighbors of Gore Vidal a long, long time ago. He'd published The City and the Pillar, and all the attendant scandal of his homosexuality made befriending him -- especially by such a high profile couple -- potentially detrimental.
The Newmans never flinched. For me, that adds an extra luster to the career and the philanthropy.
And, Jesus God, he was hot.
Posted by
Jubilation T. Cornball |
September 27, 2008 8:55 AM
My mom had a working agreement with my father that if she could she would leave him for Paul Newman. I'm said for my mom, he would have been a great step-dad.
Great actor, great director, and yes, @12, Jesus was he hot.
Posted by
Will in STL |
September 27, 2008 9:15 AM
back in the day when things were a quite a bit different, my mom told me that paul newman was the first white man that she would kiss if she could. i wasn't sure what she meant and then she showed took me to see 'cool hand luke'. i just told her the news and she sighed that sigh of a woman whose dream just passed.
Posted by
reverend dr dj riz |
September 27, 2008 9:36 AM
I've had a crush on Paul Newman since I was a little girl. A true man and someone who used his wealth to make the world a better place. Sad to see him go, I hope that his exit was peaceful.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the Sting are, for my money, the best buddy pictures ever made.
Newman was a decent, engaged, non-asshole Hollywood superstar who stayed married to one woman for fifty years and donated the greater portion of the money he made capitalizing on his fame to charitable causes. Not many in that mold.
Plus, I think I speak for many straight men when I say that a movie like Cool Hand Luke can really raise some uncomfortable questions about one's true sexuality. Holy crap, he was good-looking.
Posted by
flamingbanjo |
September 27, 2008 12:58 PM
Was sad when I heard the news. My first movie memory is going to see the Sting at the Devon theater in Chicago. He will be missed and one can only the goodness he started will continue on!
The man who kept re-writing the rules with his ability to act. Hud, Slapshot, The Drowning Pool, all movies you'll watch again in 20 years- and then wonder why you waited so long.
This is a YouTube of Paul Newman and James Dean when they screen-tested for "East of Eden" - priceless. Per Jubilation: the Newmans also named Gore Vidal godfather of one of their children.
Three Newman movies you youngsters should check out: his first - "The Silver Chalice" in which he doesn't have much of a role but his beauty is incandescent. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Elizabeth Taylor in the sexually-conflicted role of Brick. And his Oscar-nominated director's début: "Rachel, Rachel" with Joanne Woodward and Estelle Parsons - a poignantly crushing story of young spinsters, a dictatorial mother, latent Lesbianism, funeral home etiquette and a disturbing view of Holy Roller Pentecostalism.
Posted by
RHETT ORACLE |
September 28, 2008 12:59 PM
@ 33, #27'S comment was not stupid at all. Tim's 100% correct. And I'm a smoker with no serious plans to quit anytime in the near future. Stupid? Yeah. But it's my body...
oh, no. RIP.
I've said it before: one can not eat 50 hard boiled eggs.
this has been coming for a while now. 83 is a good run, especially when one accomplished as much as he did.
his legacy in art & charity is impressive.
Oh shit. I love his products. The world has lost a nearly tireless soul who worked hard to make life better for all of us. My sympathies to his wonderful wife. She's pretty damned amazing as well.
Few people have contributed so much. R.I.P.
I'm surprised at how sad that makes me.
He was someone who increased the sum of good in the world.
Paul Newman, oh for the love
What a wonderful live he lived. Inspiring. We can't all be movie stars, but he raced cars, he built a charity, he went to town with what this life gave him.
Also, he was just so beautiful.
Newman croaks it, McCain walks the earth.
Fucking sigh.
I'm with Terry at 8 on all counts. I was just looking at the Washington Post's remembrance. He was beautiful.
Gorgeous, wonderful man. I love this quote from the nytimes write-up:
"December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age. "I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said."
I hope I'm like that. I would also like a comparable number of acadamy award nominations.
He and Joanne Woodward were neighbors of Gore Vidal a long, long time ago. He'd published The City and the Pillar, and all the attendant scandal of his homosexuality made befriending him -- especially by such a high profile couple -- potentially detrimental.
The Newmans never flinched. For me, that adds an extra luster to the career and the philanthropy.
And, Jesus God, he was hot.
“I picture my epitaph: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown".”
Oh man. So sad.
My mom had a working agreement with my father that if she could she would leave him for Paul Newman. I'm said for my mom, he would have been a great step-dad.
Great actor, great director, and yes, @12, Jesus was he hot.
back in the day when things were a quite a bit different, my mom told me that paul newman was the first white man that she would kiss if she could. i wasn't sure what she meant and then she showed took me to see 'cool hand luke'. i just told her the news and she sighed that sigh of a woman whose dream just passed.
God, he was beautiful.
And decent and smart and interesting.
Not many of those around.
And...@9 - Amen. Where's the justice in that?
what a guy. well, we all die. 83 is pretty good. so i am not saddened by his death, but i am moved by his life.
If only Paul Newman and Robert Redford had made Brokeback Mountain in 1969. *sigh*
He was dreamy well into his old age and his love for Joanne Woodward will forever be legendary.
What a good man.
Jesus God he was beautiful.
I just...I just don't even know what to say. We just lost one of the greats, a singularly irreplaceable man.
swoon! http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d48/GitGone/paul_newman.jpg
I've had a crush on Paul Newman since I was a little girl. A true man and someone who used his wealth to make the world a better place. Sad to see him go, I hope that his exit was peaceful.
I've never seen the comments section so respectful. even that alone is an achievement.
I admire how he lived his life. A good man, and hard to argue with those looks. I'm not gay, but he was one good looking guy.
Newman was a bonafide legend...this is sad news. I think I'll go watch "Hudsucker Proxy" again to give me a little bit of a smile back.
Dead--thanks to that fucking cigarette in his mouth. Nota bene, smoker kids. Half of you will die way the heck before you have to.
Oh, no. That is not good news to wake up to. He really seemed like a great guy. RIP.
Yes, Very Sad...we've lost another good liberal!
I knew it was coming, but still, I am so crushed. I feel kind of like riz's mom.
@25 - I AM gay, but I've had a straight crush on Paul Newman pretty much always. The man was 12 kinds of awesome. RIP
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the Sting are, for my money, the best buddy pictures ever made.
Newman was a decent, engaged, non-asshole Hollywood superstar who stayed married to one woman for fifty years and donated the greater portion of the money he made capitalizing on his fame to charitable causes. Not many in that mold.
Plus, I think I speak for many straight men when I say that a movie like Cool Hand Luke can really raise some uncomfortable questions about one's true sexuality. Holy crap, he was good-looking.
@ 27, yeah, he died prematurely didn't he?
I'm against smoking too but stupid comments like that don't help the cause.
Was sad when I heard the news. My first movie memory is going to see the Sting at the Devon theater in Chicago. He will be missed and one can only the goodness he started will continue on!
The man who kept re-writing the rules with his ability to act. Hud, Slapshot, The Drowning Pool, all movies you'll watch again in 20 years- and then wonder why you waited so long.
Thank god he never finished that medical degree.
Classy dude. 26 comments before some miserable POS chimes in? must be some kinda record.
It appears he quit smoking 30 years ago and the heightened risk of lung cancer from smoking dissipates after ten years after you quit.
A good incentive to quit now.
IOW you can reclaim a pure state, after the passage of time, unlike virginity.
We have lost a great man. Rest in peace.
bummer, newman was a great.
when i first saw the picture, i thought norm macdonald was dead. not such a loss, that guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUjS1nnS4k
This is a YouTube of Paul Newman and James Dean when they screen-tested for "East of Eden" - priceless. Per Jubilation: the Newmans also named Gore Vidal godfather of one of their children.
Three Newman movies you youngsters should check out: his first - "The Silver Chalice" in which he doesn't have much of a role but his beauty is incandescent. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Elizabeth Taylor in the sexually-conflicted role of Brick. And his Oscar-nominated director's début: "Rachel, Rachel" with Joanne Woodward and Estelle Parsons - a poignantly crushing story of young spinsters, a dictatorial mother, latent Lesbianism, funeral home etiquette and a disturbing view of Holy Roller Pentecostalism.
@ 33, #27'S comment was not stupid at all. Tim's 100% correct. And I'm a smoker with no serious plans to quit anytime in the near future. Stupid? Yeah. But it's my body...
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