Paul Newman: Search & Destroy (now also RIP)

It's weird, I don't have a defining performance in my head to draw on as being a favorite; I'd say he was more someone who transcended film if that makes any sense. Obviously his public profile vis-a-vis politics and philanthropy was a large part of that. Still, first thing that leapt to my mind was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, so that.

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(In some ways, Ned, you and I are very different people)

True, true.

Oh man... :-( RIP

Sad news. His performances in "Hud" and "Cat on A Hot Tin Roof" have always meant a lot to me, his kind of masculinity is missing nowadays from Hollywood.

I remember a story years ago in which Robert Redford said that Paul Newman was sadly senile and mentally incapable these days. But I think it was a JOKE. Right?

Surely he was one of the most beloved actors of his generation.

RIP

Oh, I see that Dr Morbius reported on PN's cancer back in June, just 2 days or so before I met the legendary Dr Morbius in fact. I bet Mr Morbius will have a view on PN.

:(

Wow RIP - very sad

...so really, they're all gone now, right? The star-legends...who is left of "Classical Hollywood," ? Only Bacall now

oh, and Taylor, or what's left of her

there never has been, nor will there ever again be, a handsomer jew. RIP.

my mom is gonna be bummed. she has always maintained that paul newman is the most attractive man ever to have lived.

"His likableness is infectious; nobody should ever be asked not to like Paul Newman."

This is really sad, RIP. Feel like watching The Sting tonight.

Ebert remembers

Newman looked like a god in his youth. He radiated a "healthy" ideal of American masculinity / sex appeal that was in sharp contrast to say, Brando, but it's interesting to compare the two in terms of how they held up - Newman was just one year younger, but look at Brando's physicality by the time of the Godfather, versus a still-sexy Butch Cassidy & the Sundance King, and Sting era Newman!! No one remembers this... I guess Brando had just let himself (physically) go by then..

Or maybe it's all the race car driving that kept him well-preserved

sigh

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RIP. :(

Aw man, rest in peace.

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Very handsome guy. Made some watchable movies. (Too bad that Sometimes a Great Notion was such a bomb. It could have been a contender.) Seemed personable enough. "All profits to charity" put him in a different class from Gene Autry or Bob Hope. RIP.

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:( :( :(

Like Burt Lancaster, he didn't become a great actor until his fifties, after which that husky Glenlivet-stained voice was its own pleasure.

His spaghetti sauce is first-rate.

aw, man...:-( RIP.

he shot parts of that HBO movie Empire Falls at my great aunt and great grandmother's house.

his salad dressings also had the best crazy stories on the labels too

I enjoyed many of his films and he was an amazing icon in American culture.

Perhaps a model for the right way to handle celebrity?

I wish Torn Curtain (on TCM yesterday) wasn't the last thing I saw him in during his lifetime.

I agree with Super Cub - he seemed like a very genuine and humble chap. Also, he had the most beautiful eyes in the world.

RIP.

RIP - pour out a bottle of salad dressing.
This year is turning out to be a bad one for losing heros.

Kingfish OTM: Aw, man.

RIP, man. yer spaghetti sauce (and Hud) was outta site! (say, how come nobody mentioned his appearance in The Long Hot Summer above?)

No one's said "I can eat 50 eggs!"

Rest in peace.

RIP. I grew up on repeated watchings of Butch Cassidy + The Sting. And goddamn if his salad dressings weren't delicious too. :(

RIP. My mum loved him to death, and raised me to love him too. Without Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy, I don't know if I'd be the same me I am today. Or as healthy, without the benefit of his yummy spag sauce and salad dressings. What a good, handsome, decent man. I'm gonna miss him.

I've never had any Newman's Own products! And now you all say they're delicious. I guess I'll try some.

Newman's Own isn't extraordinary stuff or anything, but it's generally superior to the other products sitting on the shelf next to it.

NO >>> Ragus
NO >>> Tostitos
NO >>> Hidden Valley

Is my general impression.

The sleeve notes on his salad dressings are great!

Dargis' obit.

this deserves a posting
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The sleeve notes on his salad dressings are great!

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, September 28, 2008 12:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

BITCH CASSADINI

I saw him a couple of times at the Monterey Historic Car races years ago.

My most favorite movie star crush is all about PN. I was 18 it was late summer early fall in so cal. probably about now on the calendar really, but so many years ago. I went late (about 11pm) to the local grocery store, Westward Ho (now a Whole Foods) and there he was! The blue eyes and I was GONE!

At the time he and his lovely wife either lived here or had a home here and he was in jeans & t-shirt, wearing "house or bedroom" slippers and just being an ordinary guy shopping up and down the aisles. I'm an LA girl, born & raised and have seen celebrities here, there and everywhere. Pfft. Not moved or stunned or struck by them in anyway.

PN was the one; the single exception to my blase attitude. He is one of the last Hollywood big stars and I will never forget that evening in the market where I was star struck. The first, last and only time ever. RIP Pauly.

Sad news :(
RIP

You got the feeling from this guy that if he needed to tie a knot or fix a leaky boat he could probably do it, or least have fun flirting with you while he was trying.

I always loved how he held his beer bottle in a napkin at premiere parties, so as not to be caught inadvertently advertising for the beer company if he was photographed.

gbx's momma OTM. lol at Paul Newman is HUD editorial

Slapshot was the first DVD I bought when I got a DVD player. Loved him in Verdict and, most of all, in Absence of Malice.

I dunno, The Wicker Man is pretty widely regarded as a classic. I can't actually think of any other movies he was in, so in terms of percentages he's up there with John Cazale.

Hang on. There was Breaker....

Ah, sorry. I'll get my coat.

lol I have in fact seen more Edward Woodward movies than Joanne Woodward movies ...

One of the best, most underappreciated actors of his generation. The reactions itt to his death at the time are striking.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,one of the many she did produced and directed by Newman (their daughter Nell Potts is also real good in that).

A favorite of the Cahiers du Cinema critics in the 1970s. Eli Wallach's daughter is also good in it.

Centenary Today.

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Didn't realize that...probably my favourite actor ever across his whole career.

One of a handful of actors that for me made every movie he was in better or at least more interesting.

I think his greatest performance is also in his greatest film, The Hustler, but also love him in Nobody's Fool - I think he preferred his later performances as I vaguely recall him saying he could see himself trying (perhaps too hard) in his earlier ones, and given how comfortable and effortless his later performances tend to be, I can see what he means. That doesn't diminish his earlier work, but it's something that stands out as he gets older.

(or rather "as he became older")

If it wasn't for lung cancer, I could see him making it to 100.

I betcha he could eat 100 years

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just on TCM and...he's not exciting in it. His acting got looser after 1968.

I actually like him in that, but tbf I never really liked the film, especially as an adaptation. I forgot how many bowdlerized adaptations were done to Tennessee Williams, but it's frustrating to see when they had so many legends from that era involved.

It's hard for me to sit through one of his performances before 1968, actually. Even The Hustler. He became a different actor: he embraced his star persona and the decision enriched his persona.

*enriched his acting

Not a single mention of Exodus in this thread but one can imagine why.

Otto Preminger made at least 10 films that are better than Exodus

The Academy Museum has been highlighting Newman’s work for the past month. They struck beautiful new 35mm prints of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sting, and The Color of Money (which I saw this afternoon)

Newman was a hugely underrated director. Rachel, Rachel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and The Glass Menagerie all floor me

I once had a cordial chat with the editor of The Glass Menagerie. It was at something unrelated to the movie, but I brought it up, and he basically said Newman was a wonderful human being. He explained that as the film was still being shot, he would be cutting together what they already had (standard practice in the industry) and at one point, he got a phone call that Newman wanted him to come to set. That made him very nervous because it's an unusual request and he thought it meant Newman was unhappy with something he did. So he went down there and he saw the cast rehearsing a scene while Newman was way off to the side, sitting with an enormous bowl of popcorn. He asked Newman what it is he wanted, and Newman explained that he made so much popcorn and that it was so good, he thought he'd might want to have some. He laughed and was like "that's fine but I really should be cutting your movie right now!"

A friend of mine who is a dermatologist also has a wonderful story about Newman from a resident chair she worked under: apparently when he moved to Newman's neighborhood, Newman personally came over to say hello and welcome him. When he told Newman that he was in dermatology, Newman immediately took off his shirt and jokingly asked him to check something on his torso.

Quite a guy, just in terms of personality he may be my favorite film star of all-time. There are others up there like Brando, Cagney, Nicholson and Bogart, but he has an edge over them for the way he overcame his demons a long time ago, for not being too crazy or volatile, and unlike Cagney and a few others for not giving in to reactionary politics in response to changing times - just the opposite.

Hey, that "Once Upon A Wheel" TV show is on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO9vEpB25tg

Great interview with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, translated in English by Film Stage:

https://thefilmstage.com/paul-newman-on-craft-celebrity-and-destiny-a-conversation-with-oriana-fallaci/

Newman and Burt Lancaster are both neck and neck in terms of the scope of their careers and fearlessness. Gregory Peck is close, but he had less great roles as he aged

hate to subject the late and great gregory peck to this sort of thing, but

*fewer*

unless the roles were less great

I betcha he could eat 100 years

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I lol'd

He was the most beautiful human.