Paul Newman: Search & Destroy (now also 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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http://www.legayblog.com/images/2008/04/25/080425paulnewman01.jpg

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
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E2DD1030F93AA2575BC0A9659C8B63

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.

No one is tearing him apart and Mr. Newman doesn’t try to plumb the depths with the role, which makes the character and the performance feel more contemporary than many of the head cases of the previous decade.
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blaze!
Yeah, he was really good in that one.

Dahlia Lithwick remembers

Totally weird seeing Melissa Newman on TV wearing his Old Guys Rule hat yesterday. Will remember graduation day handshake with slightly more poignancy. My mom was super-upset.

'fix a leaky boat'!

Newman flirting with Hand!

this is a nice obit: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=845223

Michael Koresky on queerness and sexual freedom in Newman's Rachel, Rachel

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/queer-now-1968/

it'll take more than Koresky and jumper cables to turn RR's engine

Really enjoyed the Last Movie Stars documentary series. (Good job Ethan Hawke!)

Made me realize I don't think I've ever seen a Joanne Woodward movie. And there are a shit-ton of Paul Newman movies I haven't seen, although not that many that seem like I need to — he made a good number of clunkers and middlebrow fare. Fascinating in particular how much he seemed to lack confidence in his own acting. He knew that he knew how to look good on camera, but he had a hard time opening up as an actor.

There's also a shit-ton of Woodward movies, but maybe try one of her first big hits, The Three Faces of Eve, a rather hokey tale of "multiple personalities," but yep she acted her ass off, won won Oscar, Golden Globes, other---also let fly in The Fugitive Kind, which is Tennessee Williams as Hail, and 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). She can be more low-key and subtle, but those are the ones that come first to my unsubtle mind.

Sybil, where she plays Sally Fields' psychiatrist.

Yes, more multiples, aieee!

agree that Last Movie Stars series was excellent

also such a great, nuanced portrayal of a real relationship. impressed that hawke & the family were able to achieve that but somehow didn’t diminish either Paul or Joanne in the process. like, by showing that it wasnt perfect it still somehow didnt affect my overall opinion.

plus god those long movie clips were so great

I remember seeing an interview with Newman talking about Color Of Money where he talked about how much he enjoyed working with Scorsese and that he'd love for him to cast him again - "I'm still here, you know!". Never happened. :(

Actually I have seen The Miracle Worker, so there’s one. But there are clips from all those Woodward movies and many more in the documentary. Some looked interesting but none leapt out as must-sees. It’s interesting that for somebody who had as long a career as she did, and won basically all the awards you can win, she doesn’t really have a single movie or performance in the “all-time great” canon. Her movies don’t really have much of a critical presence — unlike Newman, who has several films I grew up regarding as classics, she’s not someone you hear about or read about much even if you’re into movies. Some of that is probably just sexism, since she made lots of melodramas and women’s pictures. But even compared to other top actresses of her era — Shirley MacLaine, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe — it doesn’t feel like she has much of an enduring footprint.

Lol never mind The Miracle Worker is Anne Bancroft. See what I mean?

Woodward is fine in the Newman-directed Rachel Rachel and as the victim of Newman's quiet haute bourgeois suppression in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.

Judging Woodward, a fine actor, is hard because she paid as much if not more attention to raising kids.

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge is one that has interested me — maybe because it’s one of her few high profile roles that came out while I have been a moviegoing adult.

And yeah, this series very much portrays the imbalance in the relationship when it came to taking care of the kids. Tho to Newman’s credit he used his clout to make a lot of movies with her.

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.