I bet we don't hear.

I'm basing this on the fact that a while back, I saw a profile of him that was already doing the same hand wringing.

I bet you didn't see.

This, though, is cute:

One version of the story has the kid look from the picture of Newman on the Newman's Own lemonade carton to Newman himself, then back to the carton and back to Newman again before asking, "Are you lost?"

Dahlia Lithwick.

I stopped watching television in the late 60's, so many of the movies that are important to my generation I saw in the nineties, like Cool Hand Luke>/i> and BCaSDK.

So it is the 50s and early 60s work that flooded tv in the early to mid 60s that I remember.

Left Handed Gun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Exodus, Hud, Hustler several others

And The Long Hot Summer with Woodward, quite possibly the hottest movie ever filmed

He & Woodward made their 50th in January.

Wait, what?

THLS, in the scene in the dry-goods store, you imagine Joanne snarling:

"Cut, Martin, just cut right now. You better cut or you're gonna get stuff on film even you or Paul have never seen before."

Toast him with Costco grape juice -- No man can beat 50 eggs -- what we have here is a failure to resuscitate.

One version of the story has the kid look from the picture of Newman on the Newman's Own lemonade carton to Newman himself, then back to the carton and back to Newman again before asking, "Are you lost?"

I don't think the period of time during which lost people were on milk cartons overlapped with the period of time during which Paul Newman was best known for his line of foodstuffs. The two halves of the apocryphal story reject each other!

I think the only things I've seen him in may be The Sting and Cool Hand Luke, come to think of it.

If that was my legacy, I'd take it.

There's a story about Thomas Dolby ("She Blinded Me With Science") that I like. Someone called him a one-hit wonder, and he said, "How many hits do you have?

Also: w-lfs-n is going to be quite cross with you for your failure to use the subjunctive here.

re: 10

Not the Hustler? Colo[ur] of Money? Road to Perdition? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Somebody Up There Likes Me? Towering Inferno? The Verdict?

I don't know about the US, but most of these films get repeated on TV a lot.

I'm disappointed that the "No more masturbating to" meme has not spread beyond Unfogged in the 18 months since its creation. oh well.

You know you want to watch it again, for old time's sake.

Nobody can eat 50 eggs.

Neither the Colour, nor the Colo, of money.

Go watch Butch and Sundance. It's rather good.

10:Aw, jeez, Ben. So go rent Hud & Hustler. They didn't make'em any better than that at that time. And they have weathered well.

Absence of Malice, The Verdict, and Twilight are good later movies.

Slap Shot has a cult following

I think the only things I've seen him in may be The Sting and Cool Hand Luke, come to think of it.

Aw, man, no The Hustler or Butch and Sundance? Not even Slap Shot or The Hudsucker Proxy? I don't think Hud has aged as well as his best work, but he's -really good- in it, and it's beautifully shot (James Wong Howe's last Oscar, IIRC).

I thought this profile, written after it had started to leak out that he was dying of lung cancer, was a little too New Journalism-y but still a remarkable portrait.

Butch Cassidy is ok for what it is, but it ain't all that much. Newman did make a lot of dreck.

I can think of a half dozen better young Redford movies, like Downhill Racer

Look, I'm not saying that those are the only things I'm interested in seeing him in.

Butch Cassidy is ok for what it is, but it ain't all that much.

You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at.

I thought this profile, written after it had started to leak out that he was dying of lung cancer, was a little too New Journalism-y but still a remarkable portrait.

Just started reading this. The style is kind of intolerable.

The style is kind of intolerable.

Yeah. I read it on a plane and my memory of it was less purple. Get thee behind me, Tom Wolfe!

Just started reading this. The style is kind of intolerable.

Yes. Woof.

I loved The Sting when I was a kid. Great stuff.

Just started reading this. The style is kind of intolerable.

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We saw The Sting in AP Latin, after the AP test, along with The Godfather pts 1 and 2, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall, and several other films which I can't remember.

Had they been dubbed into Latin?

No.

Million Dollar Baby was only three or four years ago.

Indeed.

22:#147 of the top 250 at IMDB?

The American Jules et Jim.

So much for America

I'm disappointed that the "No more masturbating to" meme has not spread beyond Unfogged in the 18 months since its creation. oh well.

Unfogged is neither a leader nor follower. Just a special little thing.

Similarly, Bob, The Shawshank Redemption is the best movie of all time and Schindler's List the seventh best. (I'll certainly second your endorsement of The Hustler and Hud, though.)

28: I came thisclose to showing Sebastiane in a Latin class.

I see that one of the plot keywords is "shirtless male bondage".

Similarly, Bob, The Shawshank Redemption is the best movie of all time and Schindler's List the seventh best. (I'll certainly second your endorsement of The Hustler and Hud, though.)

With elitism like that it's no wonder you prefer Obama to both Hillary and McCain.

36: But it's in Latin!

BR just read the title and said "oh that would feel tangy!"

36 isn't about Cool Hand Luke?

I'm disappointed that the "No more masturbating to" meme has not spread beyond Unfogged in the 18 months since its creation. oh well.

I'm occasionally tempted to use it elsewhere, but then I think: I'll be outing myself as an Unfogged reader! What will people think?

40: Without question, Mr Newman's finest shirtless role (and by this I mean the role in which oudemia thinks he looks most fine) is in Sweet Bird of Youth.

I think one of Newman's best later roles was as Sully in Russo's Nobody's Fool. Nice understated acting in a fun, little understated movie. Bruce Willis was not bad in it either.

41: Our sophisticated humor and unique good taste are unmatched elsewhere.

44: Someone specifically *chose* to keep the initial report on this site classy.

44: Yeah, I had a qualm about using house style to announce his death on the other thread, but it passed.

45, I meant.

To nitpick, the salad dressing is part of his philanthropic work, so it's just his acting the young whippersnappers will overlook. Or maybe not. The beauty of DVDs and 900 cable channels is that the kids today have more opportunities to see old movies than we did. Mostly all I had was The 4:30 Movie (channel 5 in NY-NJ in the '70s). They sometimes had theme weeks; the ones I remember most are Gidget, Elvis, and Vincent Price. Not exactly George Cukor, but I got there eventually.

Actually, I rather liked The Hudsucker Proxy.

Actually, I associate Newman in his food-related incarnation with tomato sauce, that is, red pasta sauce, not salad dressing.

I like the Limeade best.

The chocolate chip cookies are excellent.

I really like Newman's organic ginger cookies.

Heaven help those poor bozos, who try to filch my Newman-O's!

Well, for god's sake, then, has anyone determined whether these products will continue to be available? Did Newman hand the company over to the Sundance Kid? Will we now have to shop for them just at Trader Joe's (which I somehow associate with the fringy suede jackets and silver jewelry the Kid seems to have become fond of -- you know, the southwest theme)?

Worrisome thoughts.

Why wouldn't they? It's not as if he handmade them.

It's not as if he handmade them.

I beg your pardon. It's "Newman's Own."

48:Checking...no, not yet.

Turner Movie Classics seems to have a policy of dropping regular programming and doing a marathon in these instances, so those with cable might keep an eye out.

But SFC has Dina Meyer vs "a deadly Sphinx unleashed from ancient tunnels", so I'm glad it isn't tonight. I don't suppose there will be a riddle.

33 i think ToS is doing great, now if only he'd start writing ToS in the posted bys

41: Perhaps the reason the local idiom 'no more' hasn't taken spread is that the mainstream is obsessed with necrobukkake.

not the Newman's Own's, but i was glad to find some ginger cookies on the upper shelf of the kitchen drawer, a rice cooking night tonight

I heard that the Newman's Own organic line is a separate, for-profit enterprise.

Newman's Own is a for-profit enterprise, but Paul Newman donated all of the proceeds, after tax, to charity. I believe his daughter is likely to take over his role in the company.

the limeade is great.

Paul Newman made salad dressing? What?

59: 33 is not ToS.

6: Paul Newman died, B.

He was great in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Among many other films, of course.

Cool Hand Luke. A better film than Citizen Kane.

I can only assume that someone will be along to tell DS to get his mind right shortly.

I haven't seen CK, so it won't be me.

Ben is the very face of conventional movie snobbery.

I thought Newman was really good with Elizabeth Taylor in "Ben Hur".