RIP Paul Newman

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NCBROWNCOAT

Saturday, September 27, 2008 2:30 PM

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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CHRISISALL

Saturday, September 27, 2008 2:33 PM

A man of honour & a great actor.

Thanksisall

STEAMER

Saturday, September 27, 2008 2:45 PM

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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NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:18 PM

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.

ZZETTA13

Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:42 PM

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

RIP Mr. Newnam.

Z

AIRPOTBORKER

Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:09 PM

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

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:33 PM

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

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NCBROWNCOAT

Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:24 PM

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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TRAVELER

Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:44 PM

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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MISSTRESSAHARA

Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:17 AM

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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