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Category Archives: Actors
“Now I don’t know how fast Volvo station wagons are supposed to go …
… and at 170 miles an hour your front and rear crumple zones aren’t gonna do you much good …” David Letterman’s tribute to Paul Newman is funny, charming, and moving. Clip below.
Hackman on Newman
Gene Hackman on Paul Newman. He lived and he acted like he drove … a lot of passion, no false moves, taking chances but always under control. Not for nothin’, Mr. Hackman, but when you say in regards to Newman: … Continue reading
Sam Mendes Remembers
This is one of the most moving personal remembrances of Paul Newman I have yet read – it’s by Sam Mendes who directed Road to Perdition. I am not sure why I have found it the most moving – I’ve … Continue reading
“That I survived the first film I did was extraordinarily good fortune. I mean, I had dogs chasing me down the street. I was wearing this tiny little Greek cocktail dressâwith my legs!”
Beautiful in-depth tribute to Paul Newman by Danny Miller. (One of my favorite bits in the tribute is about the famously bad The Silver Chalice – Newman’s first film. Newman was still apologizing for it at the end of his … Continue reading
Advice From Paul Newman
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.” — Paul Newman
David Edelstein: “Newman was physically our most wide-open movie star, yet on one level he was also our most unfathomable.”
Full tribute here. Newman didn’t use those eyes promiscuously, as jeepers-creepers peepers. He hooded them, slit them, closed them tightly in pain. When open, they were sky blue with a milky haze. You could get lost in them; you could … Continue reading
Indelible Ink: Paul Newman
My tribute is now up at House Next Door.
Life’s A Hustle
It’s been a long day. To tell you the truth, I feel a little bit drained, and beaten up. Exhausted, yet kind of nervy and alert. My worst possible combination. So I’m going to watch: Tribute not up yet. We’re … Continue reading
The Verdict: “Maybe, maybe…”
Marvelous appreciation of one small moment in The Verdict by Stephen Metcalf. But the scene I kept coming back to sets up the whole film. It’s hardly noticeable. Newman is intent on bedding a fellow barfly played by Charlotte Rampling. … Continue reading
Paul Newman: Images To Tide Us Over
… until my tribute goes up on House Next Door.