Paul Newman Remembered

Something that both Paul Newman and Robert Redford wanted to do for the last few years was to make one more picture together. Sadly, we'll never see that.

But what we did see was a man who held acting in much higher regard than any fame or celebrity brought. In the movies his piercing blue eyes, charm, and casual manner were familiar and welcoming. While his driven, commanding, and sometimes intense side inspired us all to follow him anywhere. Whether in hot pursuit across the American West or through an inferno in the world's tallest building. As a prison inmate, a pool hustler, a race car driver, or a con-man, Paul Newman was an actor and man whose magnetism was almost impossible to resist.

My first full-on appreciation for Mr. Newman began with 1974's "The Towering Inferno", and soon grew to "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid", "The Sting", and "Cool Hand Luke". He was one of the last of Hollywood's great leading men, and I'm glad to have enjoyed and savored his many performances in so many dramatic, comedic, and action packed movies during the heyday of his long career.

Here are a couple of articles about his passing in The LA Times, NY Times, and Robert Redford's thoughts in Time Magazine on the passing of an old friend.