RIP, Paul Newman

[Rutabaga]

This is such fresh, breaking news that I have no decent link to put in here, but it's just been announced that Paul Newman has passed away at the age of 83. This is not unexpected at all, since there had been so many rumors and stories about his battling cancer and not doing well at all. But it's still incredibly sad...I really do feel like an era has now passed away as well.

RIP, Mr. Newman. :cry

EDIT:

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_en_mo/obit_newman_11

[CMJ]

Terrible loss....

[Morgan Evanar]

Oh no. :( Paul Newman was my favorite Hollywood person.

[Yog]

This is terrible. :(

My favorite performance was his role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

[Mitch]

Man, this really sucks. He was a great actor, but more than that he was an incredible person. I would go out of my way to choose his Newman's Own line of products knowing all profits went to his wonderful charities, and the fact that he owned and participated in his own racing team was really cool.

This is a great loss, and really bums out my day.

[Jedi Master Carr]

He was a great man too, and did so much good with his charitable work. He will be missed.

[Yog]

A tribute. :(

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[Jedi Master Carr]

I found this interesting and humorous
Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War, and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's proudest achievements, he liked to say.
LOL of course Nixon's enemy list was long. I read he liked to support the underdog candidates like Eugene McCarthy and John Anderson. He argued that the American people should have more choices for President.

[Rutabaga]

A tribute. :(

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Thanks, Yog...I used this as part of my MySpace blog entry about Mr. Newman a few minutes ago.

When I went grocery shopping this morning, I did a dorky thing and bought 2 bottles of his salad dressing in his memory.

[stevenvdb]

I'm was actually on BushCo's list of suspicious people for lending some help in organizing multiple protests against the Iraqi invasion. Kind of a proud mark in my book - thanks Freedom of Information Act.

Funny how that's mainstream nowadays. ;)

Anyways, Paul was a great guy as well as actor and he will be dearly missed. :(

[Jaime Tomahawk]

Paul Newman came second at Le Mans in a Porsche 935. He rocked.

What a loss :(

[JMK]

He was THE man all of his peers should be measured against. What a guy and what a huge loss.

[Director BlackOps]

I hadn't heard this news and have to say Im saddened to hear of his loss. I always had a bit of a softspot for Mr Newman.

He lead a very rich life, and seemed to be a man who kept his head clear on what was important in life. Easy to respect and like someone like that.

[Atreyu]

Farewell Paul. :(

TIME Online has a great article on him:

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1845133,00.html

Particularly found the opening paragraph interesting:



In the decade after World War II, three soulful studs came from Broadway to Hollywood. Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1845175,00.html) became movie stars in the 50s and helped revolutionize the craft. Of these three, way back then, Newman seemed the least unique. He wasn't Brando, though he had studied at the Actors Studio and starred on Broadway in a Tennessee Williams play. He wasn't Dean, though he nearly played Dean's brother in Elia Kazan's East of Eden<!-- End Article Side Bar -->.


But unlike the other two, Newman stuck it out.