Posted by
ChrisChristian on Sunday, September 28, 2008 12:30:46 AM
As a youngster, I had a major crush on him. What young girl wouldn't love that handsome face and those beautiful blue eyes? As an adult I came to admire his acting ability, his long, happy marriage and his charitable heart. He shunned plastic Hollywood and knew that staring in a movie, being rich and famous is not the same as, say, curing cancer. One more reason to like the man. He stared in so many classic movies that it's difficult to name them all. My favorite role was as Frank Galvin in "The Verdict". He was so convinving that I wanted to join him on-screen and encourage him. When he sang "Plastic Jesus" in "Cool Hand Luke" I cried with him.
ALL of the money from "Newman's Own" went to charity and he spent many hours working to give gravely ill children's lives some fun at his Hole In The Wall Gang Camps.
A news anchor, on our local news in Seattle, interviewed him some time ago and found him to be warm, kind and of course, generous. He said in the interview that he wanted to be remembered, not for his acting or car racing, but for his work on behalf of children.
When you die and it can be said that you left better than you found then you have done well. Paul Newman did just that and I will miss him.
My condolences to his family and friends.