RIP Paul Newman...Another great actor passes away.

[Bren]

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" — and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario — has died. He was 83.

He was the voice behind Doc Hudson in Cars, and also great movies from my childhood like "The Towering Inferno", and also classics like "The Hustler", not to mention its sequel "The color of money"

RIP Paul...

[NZsarge]

Oh Shit!
RIP Paul, fookin' great actor.

[James Deuce]

He was a better person than he was an actor.

[jrandom]

I thought he was a brand of salad dressing.

Does this mean I have to start making my own?

[Skyryder]

I liked the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie he made with Redford. The Sting was another of his great movies along with the Colour of Money.


From all accounts he was an unpretensouse sort of guy.


Skyryder

[Beemer]

Sad he's died, but now prepare yourself for a glut of his movies to be shown on tv as a tribute - lord spare us!

[Owl]

I'd actually like to see some of his movies again. At 83 he had a reasonable innings, so RIP dude.

[martybabe]

Cool hand Luke. Shaking the bush here boss! They don't make em like that any more.

So long Paul.

[Maha]

I liked the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie he made with Redford.
Skyryder

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ...one the best movies ever!
I have it on DVD and would never tire of watching it.

[AllanB]

I thought he was a brand of salad dressing.

Does this mean I have to start making my own?

I'm not eating any of that thick white shit you'd be making. No sir. NOT in my mouth.

[Motu]

He was a better person than he was an actor.

He was a boring old fart - married for 50 years!

Something I stole from someone else,who stole it from....

''Ailing Paul Newman Turns Over $120m To Charity

Movie star Paul Newman has quietly turned over the entire value of his ownership in Newman’s Own — the company that makes salad dressing and cookies — to charity.

Completed over a two-year period in 2005 and 2006, the amount of his donations to Newman’s Own Foundation Inc. comes to an astounding $120 million.

This is unprecedented for any movie star or anyone from what we call Hollywood. Of course Newman and actress wife Joanne Woodward have never been Hollywood types. They’ve lived their lives quietly in Westport, Conn., for the last 50 years. (They were married in January 1958. And people said it wouldn’t last!)

This column learned about this extraordinary gift as news started coming out recently about Newman’s battle with lung cancer. This is not news to my readers. I told you several months ago that Newman — who has five grown daughters — was seeing an oncologist, that he’d been in and out of Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital on many visits from Westport. Like everything else, the Newmans tried to keep Paul’s illness a private matter.
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But a tip-off that he was maybe not doing so well came in late May. Newman announced that he would not direct a production of “Of Mice and Men” later this summer at the Westport Country Playhouse, where Woodward is the artistic director.

News of his illness seems to have been exacerbated by none other than neighbor Martha Stewart. She recently published pictures of Paul on her Web site from a party she hosted. He looks gaunt but nevertheless smiling his trademark smile. Nothing will set him back. This racecar driver and adventurer should not be written off as “dying.”

“He’s a fighter,” one of his close friends told me Tuesday morning. “And he’s going to keep fighting.”

In the meantime, I also told you last August that in Botswana, the Newman name is known not for being a movie star. It’s known for his famous Hole in the Wall Gang camps. The camps go to Africa every summer to run programs for impoverished and ill children. It’s the same program they run in dozens of similar camps all over the United States.

The Hole in the Wall camps are just a few of the places the hundreds of millions of dollars have gone that Newman has raised since he got the idea to bottle salad dressing for charity.

According to Newman’s Own federal tax filing for 2006, the actor personally gave away $8,746,500 to a variety of groups that support children, hurricane relief in the Gulf Coast, education and the arts.

Some of Newman’s recipients are well-known: He gave Rosie O’Donnell’s children's program $5,000 and even donated $25,000 to his pal Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. But most of them are for the kinds of programs that we never hear about, the kind that simply keep people alive.

But don’t think that Newman — who received his Kennedy Center honor in 1992 and deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom — did this because he suddenly thought he was dying. When he set up the new foundation, he hadn’t yet been diagnosed with lung cancer. It was just in honor of his 80th birthday, and an acknowledgment that he wanted to make sure his charities would continue receiving his largesse.''

[slimjim]

another old timer..don't much make them like the old Days..
good man...good life..

[Mom]

Those beautiful eyes...

I found myself singing Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head when I heard this morning...

Peaceful rest to him.

[Timber020]

This is one of the most disturbing scenes in any movie I know, its Paul Newman and Im willing to bet next to none of you have ever seen it.

Maybe it gets to me because of my job as an arborist and the way me and my brother joke around. But without blood, without real violence its pretty effective bit of drama.

Ten minutes long.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vKdF-IP7rE0