Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 07:28 PM

Paul Newman Tribute...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSkGUQBtDA

BR

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 07:31 PM

A talented man who could have coasted through life on his stunning looks had he chosen to....
but instead, he was a superlative actor, a fine husband and family man, good neighbor, a man wholived life to the fullest, and most importantly, always strived to be a full human being who lived with integrity- generous, compassionate and devoted to helping those who had not been so fortunate in life. The credo of a decent and moral man. We need more like him.

83 or 103, it breaks the heart to lose a person like this. His legacy of good works will live on, one wishes, as long as his movies.
Rest in peace Paul.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 01:48 AM

David Letterman did a beautiful tribute to him, tonight. I'll post a link as soon as it is put online.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 12:13 PM

Here is a link to the clip from last night's show: Tribute to Paul Newman on Letterman.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 11:08 PM

I do hope I'm not repeating something already posted here, but one of my favorite roles Paul Newman ever did was a rather small one pretty early in his career. It was a filmed adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's Up in Michigan tales generally known as The Nick Adams Stories. In recent times, whenever it was on television it was called Ernest Hemingway's ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN.

The fictional Nick (actually a young Ernest) leaves his boyhood home in northern Michigan and hits the road to have all sorts of adventures with the people he encounters. One of those people is a punch drunk washed up, beat up, ex-champion boxer and his caretaker-companion-trainer who is played by the great Juano Hernandez. Paul Newman is the punch drunk fighter---arguably the best character in the film. You might never recognize Paul with the amazing makeup, but he really did a fantastic job with the role.

I have never been able to find this film on a DVD---but I'm glad I did manage to grab it off late night TV about 25 years ago. Nobody ever gives it more than 2 stars, but I love it.

Also in the film is Dan Daley and Michael J. Pollard (I think his name was.) Nick is played by Richard Beymer in the only role he ever did that I could stomach.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 11:11 PM

The NPR Music site has a recording of Paul Newman as narrator in a performance of Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" at Carnegie Hall:

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Other remembrances are linked on that page, as well.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: Genie
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 02:19 AM

Don't have the original source, but I love this story about Paul!   It's supposed to be a true story, and if you're old enough to remember Paul Newman from 2 or 3 decades ago, you'll grasp the full impact of the story.
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A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town where Paul Newman and his family often visited.

One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a brisk five-mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone.

She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went straight to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor.

There was only one other patron in the store: Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.

The woman's heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those famous blue eyes. The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely.

"Pull yourself together!" She chides herself. "You're a happily married woman with three children, you're forty-five years old, not a teenager!"

The clerk filled her order and she took the double-dip chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and her change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.

When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change but her other hand was empty.

"Where's my ice cream cone?" she wondered. "Did I leave it in the store?"
Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk's hand or in a holder on the counter or something! No ice cream cone was in sight.

With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman.
His face broke into his familiar, warm, friendly grin and he said to her,

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'You put it in your purse.'
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Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 06:21 PM

...and that is where the term "pursed lips" originated!   ;-)

Art

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Paul Newman (26 Sept 2008)
From: van lingle
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 07:11 PM

"Hey, Hombreee!"

He really was an hombre.