The Official "Show Your Love for Paul Newman" Thread- Page 3

[Li'l_Devil]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 6:57pm

An eternal iconic image.

[Li'l_Devil]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 7:00pm

PAUL 'n' JOANNE 4EVER.

[Li'l_Devil]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 7:04pm

[snl89]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:32pm

I just realized... is it just me, or does Patrick Wilson look a LOT like him? :)

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 8:33pm

THAT is a gorgeous photo, LD.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/27/08 at 9:47pm

Paul Newman was the quintessential liberal Democrat, yet he supported conservative Republicans whose views he respected. He even helped his Republican brother, Arthur, be elected when he ran for office.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 1:54am

A great-looking man.

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[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 1:56am

A great friend.

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[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 1:57am

A great American.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 1:59am

A great husband.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:05am

Quite simply: great.



I'd say "Rest in peace," but I can't imagine Paul Newman ever "resting." For him, life was a constant adventure; wherever he is now, adventure is sure to follow.

[Q]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:06am

And a great father and grandfather.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:38am

I can't even get through an entire page without tearing up on the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp website. Next summer just won't be the same there, I'm sure. Again, I encourage everyone to make a donation and keep Paul Newman's legacy alive.

[Q]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:47am

"The world has lost a man legendary both for his talents as an actor and for his generosity as a philanthropist," said President S. Georgia Nugent. "And Kenyon has lost a dear friend, a loyal alumnus, and a role model for how our students might use their education and their talents as a force for good."
A tribute from his alma mater, Kenyon College.

[Q]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:58am

From his 'official obit':

"No one in his audience was ever privy to the tenderness and pride Paul had for Joanne and her talent. Watching him on the set watching her, from his seat by the camera, was to see a man transformed: his brave face taken all unawares, his lips parted in amazement, his eyes brimming with tears that never fell. It was a brief window into a man in perpetual love."

[Q]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 3:07am

Mr. Newman and Mr. Hotchner, 91, a playwright, novelist and biographer, had been friends for more than 50 years.

“Paul was an unadorned man,” Mr. Hotchner said. “He was simple and direct and honest and off-center and mischievous, and romantic and very handsome. All of these qualities became the generating force behind him.” He added: “He was the same man in 2008 that he was in 1956 — unchanged, despite all the honors and the movie stardom, not a whisper of a change. And that’s something, the constancy of the man.”
A good neighbor and a good friend.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 3:10am

I was about to turn in when I checked the news as I usually do before going to bed. I just read this article and now I'm in tears. I normally ignore the NY Daily News, but the title of the article compelled me to read it. I hope you find it as lovely and inspiring as I do. ~ Penny


We See Paul Newman's Real Gifts in a Mother's Tears
Sunday, September 28th 2008, 12:09 AM

On hearing Paul Newman was dead, Babette Rittmeyer was right back at that day in New Hampshire four years ago when he gazed at her as if she were the only person among a clamoring crowd and those famous blue eyes brimmed with tears.

She had hurried directly from her horse barn after a friend called to say that Newman was in Concord, campaigning for Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry. She had been in a dirty sweatshirt, her hair straggly when she stepped up to him among the throngs of fans.

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"All my life people have told me I look like Joanne Woodward," she had begun by saying.

She watched those eyes light up.

"Actually, you kind of do," Newman said.

She then told him that he was one of her heroes.

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"Not because you're a movie star, not because you're a celebrity," she added. "It's because of what you've done for my son and kids like my son."

She explained that her son, Matthew Stein, suffered from childhood kidney cancer. He was among the lucky ones who attended the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps that Newman created for sick kids in five countries.

Her son had gone three times to the one in Connecticut and found a community of kids who were just like himself, some worse off. He was nearing renal failure on his last stay but he had nonetheless gone up to the wall that campers scale as a symbolic feat.

LUPICA: CELEBRITY ROLE WAS NEWMAN'S OWN

"Matthew called me and said, 'Mom, it's 1:20 in the afternoon, it's raining, I feel like s---, but I still climbed the wall,'" she told Newman.

She saw those eyes brim with tears.

"Paul Newman started to cry and I cried," she remembered yesterday. "I went to shake his hand and he said, 'You can do better than that.'"

Newman gave her a big hug.

"He held on and held on as if he knew what I had been through as the mother of a kid with cancer," he recalled. "Unless you've been there, you can't know. But somehow he knew."

The crowd of fans who had come to see Newman the movie star and celebrity began to grow restless.

"People around us were like sort of telling him, 'Hello, how about the rest of us?'" she remembered. "He looked deeply into my eyes. He acted like I was the only person standing before him in the world."

Newman wrote a note to her son, who had gone on to climb a seemingly unscalable wall thanks to the uplift from the Hole in the Wall Gang, the pioneering oncologist Dr. Judah Folkman and a young friend who donated a kidney.

"Stay healthy. Stay strong. Thinking of you," Newman wrote.

The son later framed the note and hung it on another wall, in his apartment where he is the happiest of 28-year-olds, with a good job at a boat company and a girlfriend he met in Jerusalem.

"He's just so happy," the mother said.

He is ready to give a hand to whoever might need it, having been imbued with his benefactor's spirit at the camp when it seemed he might have no future at all.

"My son was able to turn around and have actual charity in his heart, sharing in ways I don't know if he knew he was capable off," his mother recalled Saturday.

She was reminded of her hero's true greatness every time she was in the supermarket and saw the Newman's Own food that has generated more than $200 million for the Hole in the Wall Gang and other noble ventures.

"Never mind 'Butch Cassidy' and all that," she said. "He was just such a soulful guy. He had the biggest heart of anyone."

Saturday, I called and broke the sad news to Rittmeyer that Newman had himself succumbed to cancer. The woman who had cried with him four years ago now cried for him, the true hero who had done so much for so many offstage and away from the cameras, leaving us with an example of how to live life most actual.

"It won't be the same without him," Rittmeyer said.

Link to article

[Kasie]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 3:16am

Cool Hand Luke is one of my all-time favorites.
I definitely shed some tears when I heard this sad news.

RIP

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 4:12am

This seems fitting. On the occasion of his 80th birtday, Paul Newman's daughter Nell read this passage from Walt Whitman:

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people…and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

After reading this, Nell smiled and said, "Sounds like Pop, doesn't it?"

May he rest in peace.

[kec]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 10:01am

Miss Pennywise, that Daily News article has me in tears as well. Thanks for the find.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:00pm

More shots of Paul and Joanne through the years:

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:21pm

I've never even seen this one. It's so "film noir"!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 2:56pm

The camera loved him. That's for sure.

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[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 10:24pm

With his good friend, Clint Eastwood.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/28/08 at 10:29pm

A peck from Joanne.