RIP Paul Newman, 83

[Wayback]

Paul Newman, screen legend, race driver & philanthropist, gone at 83
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/27/entertainment/e065546D56.DTL
90-sec video from Biography Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-Bgz1-HQE&feature=related

[RGMike]

       

[urth]

Wayback, your avatar says it all. A sad day for our country and the world. 

[princessofcairo]

f**k, f**k, f**k, that's sad. damn...i don't know what i can say tonight at my concert, but maybe we can play some cool hand...

[mshray]

       


very sad day.

My top 5 Paul Newman films:

Nobody's Fool
Cool Hand Luke
The Color of Money
The Verdict
Mr & Mrs Bridge

[RGMike]

[mshray]

Just gonna throw this out there: Best looking Jewish guy ever?

[Gazoo]

Just gonna throw this out there: Best looking Jewish guy ever?

I'd say yes.  (Is Brendan Fraser Jewish?)

[RGMike]

Just gonna throw this out there: Best looking Jewish guy ever?

I'd say yes.  (Is Brendan Fraser Jewish?)

Paul Newman's half jewish; Goldie Hawn's half too,
Put them together--what a fine lookin jew!

of course, I'm partial to Bill Goldberg, but that's just me...

[Wayback]

I have a Paul Newman autographed pic I got at a charity auction in Dec 1980.

[SFGuy]

From imdb.com:

Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks will be among the A-list stars who will pay tribute to movie legend Paul Newman at a benefit gala for the late actor's California kids camp The Painted Turtle.

Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Danny Devito, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Billy Crystal will also take the stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California on 27 October.

The stars will perform a stage reading of The World of Nick Adams, an adaptation of a number of Ernest Hemingway's autobiographical stories, written by Newman's longtime pal A.E. Hotchner.

[mshray]

on Sunday morning I called Rosalie to request a tune in memory of Paul Newman - could she play the Mark Knopfler instrumental "Two Brothers And A Stranger" from the Color Of Money soundtrack.  She said she thought that was a great and very tastefull request & promised to go look for it post-haste.  But unless I missed something she never could find it.

[urth]

A really nice tribute to Newman in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2201116/

[Lightnin' Rod]

From imdb.com:

Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks will be among the A-list stars who will pay tribute to movie legend Paul Newman at a benefit gala for the late actor's California kids camp The Painted Turtle.

Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Danny Devito, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Billy Crystal will also take the stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California on 27 October.

The stars will perform a stage reading of The World of Nick Adams, an adaptation of a number of Ernest Hemingway's autobiographical stories, written by Newman's longtime pal A.E. Hotchner.

That sounds cool.  Too bad benefit galas are a bit out of my league. 

[Lightnin' Rod]

From imdb.com:

Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks will be among the A-list stars who will pay tribute to movie legend Paul Newman at a benefit gala for the late actor's California kids camp The Painted Turtle.

Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Danny Devito, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Billy Crystal will also take the stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California on 27 October.

The stars will perform a stage reading of The World of Nick Adams, an adaptation of a number of Ernest Hemingway's autobiographical stories, written by Newman's longtime pal A.E. Hotchner.

Just for fun, a link to my favorite of the Nick Adams stories, "The Big Two Hearted River".

http://www.olearyweb.com/classes/english10012/readings/twohearted.html