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I think most women in the world were in love with Paul Newman at one time or another. Imagine he was married TO JoAnne Woodward for fifty years. Not too many in Hollywood or outside of Hollywood could brag of that...My favorite..Cat on a Hot Tin ROof. GOod by to a great actor and philanthropist.
Posted by: carol stanley on September 27, 2008 5:55 PM
Paul Newman created a new model for us boomer males--sophisticated did not mean
you needed a foreign accent--nor
did it mean that you needed to be a workout rat, you just needed to be smart, cool, wry and funny --OK it helped he was a good looking but that was the icing not the main dish.
Posted by: babyboomreview on September 29, 2008 4:20 PM
I think one of his best recently was the part of the father in 'Message in a Bottle'. Kostner is often too good to be believable. Newman's role as the crusty dad took the edge off that and made the whole thing much more real and human. He'll always be Fast Eddy first, though.
Posted by: Glenn Palmer on September 29, 2008 4:58 PM
Icing his good looks may have been, but what fabulous icing!
Posted by: Jan on October 1, 2008 10:52 AM
Your post about Paul Newman resonated with me - to my core. I don't get all mushy about actors, but I fell in love with him when I was 12 and WGN Chicago TV played older black and white movies all night long on summer nights. "The Long Hot Summer" was the first time I remember feeling girl-heat over a movie. (blush). I loved Joanne, too, so it was real ok she was married to him.
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Posted by: Maryan Pelland on October 5, 2008 5:08 PM
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I was going to write today about the Presidential debate, but instead find I need to say goodbye to the first man I ever loved--Paul Newman. As a pre-pubescent girl curled up in an armchair on rainy Sundays watching movies, my teeny nascent lust was aroused by the eyes, that attitude. Who wouldn't follow Ari Ben Canaan to Palestine? What woman wouldn't stick with Fast Eddie Felson? And who could play the grifter/drifter/anti-hero better?
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