RIP PAUL NEWMAN!

[FOTD]

WOW that is a drag.
made some really good movies. Not to mention some really old classic TV appearances.
Did I mention his major contribution to the food industry and our environment. Newman was heroic....
RIP Paul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqwYrbwHeM


Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) (V) (voice) .... Doc Hudson
Cars (2006) (VG) (voice) .... Doc Hudson
Cars (2006) (voice) .... Doc Hudson
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) (voice) .... Dave Scott
Empire Falls (2005) (TV) .... Max Roby
Our Town (2003) (TV) .... Stage Manager
"Freedom: A History of Us" .... Justice Earl Warren / ... (2 episodes, 2003)
- Democracy and Struggles (2003) TV episode .... Justice Earl Warren
- Safe for Democracy (2003) TV episode .... Woodrow Wilson
Road to Perdition (2002) .... John Rooney
Where the Money Is (2000) .... Henry Manning
... aka Heißer Coup, Ein (Germany)
... aka Where the Money is - Ein heißer Coup (Germany: DVD box title)


Message in a Bottle (1999) .... Dodge Blake
Twilight (1998) .... Harry Ross
Nobody's Fool (1994) .... Sully Sullivan
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) .... Sidney J. Mussburger
... aka Hudsucker - Der große Sprung (Germany)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) .... Walter Bridge


Blaze (1989) .... Gov. Earl K. Long
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) .... Gen. Leslie R. Groves
... aka Shadow Makers (UK)
The Color of Money (1986) .... Fast Eddie Felson
Harry & Son (1984) .... Harry Keach
The Verdict (1982) .... Frank Galvin
Come Along with Me (1982) (TV)
Absence of Malice (1981) .... Michael Colin Gallagher
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) .... Murphy
When Time Ran Out... (1980) .... Hank Anderson
... aka The Day the World Ended (Philippines: English title) (USA: video title)
... aka Earth's Final Fury (USA: TV title)


Quintet (1979) .... Essex
Slap Shot (1977) .... Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
"Great Performances: Dance in America" .... Narrator (1 episode, 1976)
... aka Dance in America (USA: short title)
- American Ballet Theatre (1976) TV episode .... Narrator
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) .... The Star/William F. Cody
... aka Buffalo Bill and the Indians
The Drowning Pool (1975) .... Lew Harper
The Towering Inferno (1974) .... Doug Roberts
The Sting (1973) .... Henry Gondorff
The MacKintosh Man (1973) .... Joseph Rearden
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) .... Judge Roy Bean
Pocket Money (1972) .... Jim Kane
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) .... Hank Stamper
... aka Never Give an Inch (UK)
WUSA (1970) .... Rheinhardt


Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) .... Butch Cassidy
Winning (1969) .... Frank Capua
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) .... Pvt. Harry Frigg
Cool Hand Luke (1967) .... Luke
Hombre (1967) .... John Russell
Torn Curtain (1966) .... Professor Michael Armstrong
Harper (1966) .... Lew Harper
... aka The Moving Target (UK)
Lady L (1965) .... Armand Denis
The Outrage (1964) .... Juan Carrasco
What a Way to Go! (1964) .... Larry Flint
The Prize (1963) .... Andrew Craig
A New Kind of Love (1963) .... Steve Sherman
Hud (1963) .... Hud Bannon
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) .... The Battler
... aka Adventures of a Young Man (UK)
... aka Ernest Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (USA: complete title)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) .... Chance Wayne
Paris Blues (1961) .... Ram Bowen
The Hustler (1961) .... Eddie Felson
... aka Robert Rossen's The Hustler (USA: complete title)
Exodus (1960) .... Ari Ben Canaan
From the Terrace (1960) .... David Alfred Eaton


The Young Philadelphians (1959) .... Anthony Judson Lawrence/Narrator
... aka The City Jungle (UK)
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) .... Harry Bannerman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) .... Brick Pollitt
The Left Handed Gun (1958) .... Billy The Kid
The Long, Hot Summer (1958) .... Ben Quick
"Playhouse 90" .... Christian Darling (episode, 1958)


Time waits for no one.....

[HoneySuckle]

Sad, but he did live a long, wonderful life.

What a hubba-hubba hunk he was. Those blue eyes!

[Steve]

Don't forget Newman's first major movie role in "The Silver Chalice" (1954), typical 1950s biblical hokum designed to showcase Cinemascope with highly stylized sets and moronic dialogue.  I read that after the movie was released, Newman took out full-page ads in the Hollywood trade papers, apologizing for the film!  Newman was a class act and owned up to his mistakes.

I've caught the film a few times on TV; it is one of those incredibly bad movies that may be quite enjoyable if you were "trippin'".

[Conan71]

Far more than just a great actor.  What a great human and great American.  His contributions were many.

[Hoss]

I'll always remember him as Fast Eddie Felson, as the movie that jump started my pool playing 'career' in my late teens/early twenties was 'Color of Money'.  Only movie he ever won an Oscar from.

[marc]

I grew up watching late night reruns of his 1960s classics The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). Astonishing films.

He never really embraced Hollywood, which speaks volumes about his character.

A great actor and a great human being.

[Ttowndad]

Don't forget Mel Brookes' Silent Movie- 1976.  Paul Newman played himself as a racecar driver layed up in a cast.  What a great American.  He will be sadly missed but remembered fondly.

[Hawkins]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Far more than just a great actor.  What a great human and great American.  His contributions were many.

Yes, he will be missed.

[FOTD]

YOU WILL NOT SEE MAUREENS WORK IN TULSA PUBLICATIONS SO THE DEVIL DECIDED TO REPRINT THIS FROM THE NYT!

Cool Hand Paul

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: September 30, 2008


"Paul Newman taught me how to peel a cucumber.

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad. So when the man who has made $250 million for charity with Newman's Own dressings and sauces asked me to help him make a salad in 1986, while I was writing a profile of him for The Times Magazine, I mangled my cucumber so thoroughly that he snatched it away and showed me how to do it.

At a moment when America feels angry and betrayed, when our leaders have forfeited our trust and jeopardized our future, we lost an American icon who stood for traits that have been in short supply in the Bush administration: shrewdness, humility, decency, generosity, class.

When I asked W. in 1999 if he identified with any literary heroes, he said no, but he was drawn to Paul Newman's defiance in "Cool Hand Luke."

The Texan cast himself as an anti-hero and rebel. But as president, he knew how to strut only in photo-ops, not when actual calamities loomed or hit.

Newman was a rare liberal who loved the label; he made it onto Nixon's enemies list for supporting Eugene McCarthy's anti-Vietnam run. In 1997, I called him when he began writing a bit for The Nation (where he was an investor). He ranted about right-wingers "popping out of rat holes" but also faulted the Clintons.

"Everything is about what's winnable, not about the morality of the issues," he told me. In politics, as in racing cars, he said: "You can do anything if you are prepared to deal with the consequences."

I was nervous the first time I met the star, because he'd been a teenage crush — along with William F. Buckley Jr. (I loved Buckley's sesquipedalian dexterity — a lost art in the anti-intellectual conservative set of W. and Sarah Palin.)

We met at a restaurant on the Upper East Side, where he proceeded to interview me.

Newman: "What do you know about nuclear disarmament?"

Dowd: "Ummm."

Newman: "How can you justify The Times's editorial position on the moratorium?"

Dowd: "Ummm."

He was deeply uncomfortable at getting adulation for playacting, acknowledging that "there's something very corrupting about being an actor. It places a terrible premium on appearance."

With a Butch Cassidy grin, he told me that he pictured his epitaph being: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown."

He did not want to talk about his movies; he wanted to talk throw-weights. He liked Bach and Budweiser and playing goofy practical jokes. (Once, when we were driving, he began high-speed bumping the car in front of us, driven by his friend.) He was bored by fashion and embarrassed by women who brazenly flirted with him or asked him to take off his sunglasses to show his blue eyes.

Once, when he was handing out punch at a Westport charity event, a dowager asked him to stir her drink with his finger.

"I'd be glad to," Newman replied, "but I just took it out of a cyanide bottle."

He recalled how utterly flummoxed he was the time a stunning call girl approached him on Fifth Avenue and offered to dispense with her fee.

"You want to send her off with something classy and stylish, the way Cary Grant would, or Clint Eastwood," he said. "You think, how would Hombre handle this? And when this woman came up to me — the guy who played Hud — what comes through? Laurel and Hardy. Both of them."

He said he was not like his sultry, flamboyant characters: "You don't always have Tennessee Williams around to write glorious lines for you."

He and his wife were reputed to have one of the happiest marriages in Hollywood, but the outspoken Joanne Woodward admitted that it took a lot of therapy to cope with the fact that, even though she got an Oscar first, he was able to stay a leading man for four decades. She told a magazine that she was always "uncomfortable and even angry" that "Paul was so much bigger than I was ... Because he was living my fantasy" to be a star.

She would not talk to me for The Times's profile that her husband did to promote "The Color of Money" — even just on the topic of his role as the director of five movies that she had starred in. She said she did interviews only solo or jointly with him — not about him. That byzantine deal reflected the rivalry that threaded through their romance.

He said that he appreciated her, as he looked around his elegant Fifth Avenue apartment, observing dryly: "If anyone had ever told me 20 years ago I'd be sitting in a room with peach walls, I would have told them to take a nap in a urinal."

[sauerkraut]

I liked him in "The Towering Inferno" I understand that Paul Newman & Steve McQueen were fighting over who should get top billing in that film. They came up with a agreement. At the time Steve McQueen & Paul Newman were very popular Hollywood stars. Steve McQueen died in 1980 from Methelioma that was caused from his asbestos exposure in his youth. He was only 50 years old. His death was a tragic loss at that time, just like Paul Newmans death is today.. They both did some some great films in their time... RIP Paul Newman. HollyWood lost many great stars.