Paul Newman RIP

mike65

Just heard. 83, died of cancer.

Mike

faceman

Just hearing this now, very sad another great one gone.

love that pasta sauce!

johnny_ultimate

A fine actor, RIP.

kerash

One of the all time greats.
RIP:(

madds

He's been sick for some time and has been receiving chemotherapy. Was watching a Bruce Willis bio I recorded from the Biography Channel last night and Newman was one of the contributors.

I'll always remember him as Fast Eddie Felson in the "Color of Money"...how he told that young one to put her clothes back on I'll never know

sergiotheonly

Just read it myself, hard to believe. Had a great presence and seemed like a really genuine guy. Will be missed.

Podge2k7

R.I.P

Basq

Terrible.. a huge loss in the movie world!

RIP Paul.

PullMyFinger!

Loved him in The Colour Of Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730Q-baXOhE

RIP

pixelburp

One of the true greats who will be missed. great actor & a decent man RIP

Wasn't he the principal sponsor for some community projects here in Ireland?

MayMay

Yes, for a children's charity wasn't it?

RIP, what a loss.

humanji

Damn, just heard this now. The odd thing is I'll always remember him for his Simpsons line: "Homer, I'll tell you what I told Redford. It ain't goona happen!"

mike65

He founded Barretstown Kids camp, through his Hole in the Wall charity.

Mike.

Gillie

RIP.

Legend!

One of the greats and actually a little under appreciated.

While he was good in the Color of Money, its predecessor, The Hustler is one of the all time greatest movies. If you haven't seen it go watch it as a tribute to the man. His performance will blow you away.

Sherifu

He was pure class. Loved cool hand Luke.

DapperGent

So it goes.

Agreed his performance in The Hustler is simply amazing. Fantastic film too.

Standard Toaster

RIP
Fine, fine actor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNyl6gXLMLQ

Earthhorse

Dang. Much as I hate Cosmo Landesman he actually summed up Newman's performance in Road to Perdition prefectly, vis-a-vis a comparison with Hank's and Law's performance by saying all three gave a performance but Newman did so without looking like he was. A real natural.

jayhaitch2 wrote: »

One of the greats and actually a little under appreciated.

Hmmm, find that hard to believe. Pretty sure Newman came in for almost universal praise.

Dman001

R.I.P.

is_that_so

R.I.P. A fine human being and a superb actor with a wide range of talents.

The Hustler, Butch Cassidy , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Somebody Up There Likes Me stand out for me.

Latchy

He was one of the last great hollywood actors and a wonderful human being

RIP

Karl Hungus

He was amazing, and he will be missed.

Diogenes

Not only was he one of the all time screen greats, but his Newman's own foundation raised over $200 million dollars for children's charities. Include our own Barretstown Camp for seriously ill children, he's maintained an active involvement with the camp since his foundation helped start it.

R.I.P.

TheIrishGrover

Paul Newman
Heath Ledger
Roy Scheider
Paul Scofield
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Wow, heavy year. May they all RIP:(

Dman001

Also Bernie Mac, another brilliant actor. May they all RIP.

Galvasean

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Paul Newman
Heath Ledger
Roy Scheider
Paul Scofield
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Wow, heavy year. May they all RIP:(

Ad Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes to that list.

Rest In Peace Paul. Great actor and great human being.

Pigman II

My favourite movie star of all time. RIP.

Leanan Sidhe

Very sad to hear..another one of the Hollywood greats gone.


Paul Newman R.I.P.

branie

He was a legend.

S.L.F

RIP

Pepe LeFrits

I'm not generally one for these sort of threads, but he was a great.

RIP.

staker

One of the best. RIP

Creature

Outstanding actor and human being. RIP.

Not The Real Scarecrow

Gonna be weirded out now using his sauces, with him staring back at me.
Excellent actor, he will be missed. just don't be seem to be the same caliber of actors around now a days.

Kess73

One of the few that the normally overused word, Legend, actually applies to.

R.I.P

qtpLOL

Fantastic actor and a great great human being.

MightyCelestial

Paul Newman's life/career is a rarity.

One of the most respectable filmographies in cinema history,
a marriage that exceeded typical Hollywood standards,
& a charitable nature that never stopped giving.



My top 5 fave Paul Newman flix:

5. The Sting - I always felt that scripting a movie that focuses on a successful elaborate con-job really requires an exercizing of creativity from the writer. Bringing in all the elements of the characters & acts to pull off a scheme that is both credible in it's enactment & at the same time fascinating in it's grand unfolding is a balancing act on a extremely narrow margin.
This was one of the 1st. ones I watched as a kid. The chemistry between Newman & Robert Redford was evident even to me, as young as I was. They acted cool, they looked cool & particpated in a scheme that, in my mind, was cool. This was the movie that began my affection for quality heist/confidence movies.

4. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - The first example of the lightning captured in a bottle that is the Newman & Redford combo. I like Newman's character more though in this movie than in the Sting. We get to see more of him as Butch Cassidy & the relationship with his fellow bank robber, Harry Longabaugh. A really unique western that is both lotsa of fun & tragic at the same time.

3. Cool Hand Luke - How cool is Cool Hand Luke?
He's so cool that he's willing to eat 50 hardboiled eggs within an hour just to win a bet. This, in a prison where he has to share his immediate space with a
bunch of hardcore criminal chain-gang types, who are well within his ratio of flatulenciated influence. And if you can't understand that,
well then,
what we've got here
is a failure to communicate.

2. Nobody's Fool - Definitely, one of my top favorite holiday movies. Along with Paul's seasoned acting abilities, there are a bunch of reasons why I like this movie so much. However, I'll concentrate on the one scene that sold me over to this story of a father-son-grandson relationship. When Newman's character, a broken down old small-towner who still needs to grow up, attempts to make some amends for his neglective years as a father, by giving to his grandson a stopwatch, which, he claims will help in aiding to delay his fears for a full 60 seconds, every time the kid needs to enter a situation that requires him to be brave.

1. The Verdict - Probably my favorite court drama of all time. With almost a seasoned ease, Paul portrays a disheveled, aging, never-has-been, malpractice lawyer who finds within himself the humanity which never really had a chance to surface due to the layered weight of his chronic alcoholism. The movie & Newman's performance sets up very well the desolation & loneliness that the main character moves his life thru as he goes up against the legal system that giganticly favors the "big guys" over the "little guys". One can really get the sense that Newman knows that he stands no chance of winning the case, but continues moving on forward because he is, for the 1st. time in his barely neglible career, fueled by the honesty & goodness of what is right. A feeling that is so new to this character, that, combined with the realizaton that a human life is totally dependent him for justice, it becomes emotion exhilirating enough to keep an almost broken old man to keep fighting on, no matter how high the price.
One of those rare times when the performance comes thru real enough to make us ( oh, what am I'm talkin' about this "us" bullsh#t? What I really mean is "me" ) almost believe that even under the most insurmountable odds, there is always some kind of hope.


Thanx for the great movies.
R.I.P.

mike65

Nobodys Fool is a film he should have won an Oscar for, one his best.

Mike

slave1

o dear:(

tech77

Kess73 wrote: »

One of the few that the normally overused word, Legend, actually applies to.

R.I.P

Yeah absolutely.
Cool, generous, magnanimous, faithful, uncannily good-looking and a great actor to boot-
a great human being.

JP Liz

RIP Legend

constitutionus

almost seems like the end of an era as well.

they dont make actors like paul anymore. all the celebrity bull has got in the way of a guy just doing a job he's REALLY good at and adding to the craft. thats why himself and redford still standout in anyting they do. not pretty boys, ACTORs who just happen to be handsome.

cant honestly think of a bad thing to say about the guy and in hollywood thats as close to an impossbitly as you can get. the next generation could do alot worse than emulate him.

best wishes to the family

Pigman II

Galvasean wrote: »

Ad Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes to that list.

Yeah but the list was originally people who will be missed?