# Paul Newman only has weeks to live
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 9, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403 "2008-08-09T14:33:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/1 "2008-08-09T14:33:43Z")
[Story here](http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/08/08/Report_Newman_may_have_just_weeks_to_live/UPI-24031218231084/)
Apparently he has been released from the hospital so he can die at home
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/2 "2008-08-09T14:34:28Z")
☹
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/3 "2008-08-09T15:07:35Z")
This is because I put him on my short list for DP2009.
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### Author:  [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/4 "2008-08-09T16:02:18Z")
Dunno, the article seemed rather vague–the words “may have only weeks to live” are right in the headline. And their only source seems to be the Daily Mail. I’m in the US, but as I understand that’s the one that gets bashed by the Brits every time it rears its head on the Dope. So maybe the whole thing is still rather unsubstantiated.
I finally got to see The Sting a few weeks ago and loved it, by the way. I’m a little sorry now that I grew up knowing Paul Newman as That Guy on the Salad Dressing and Popcorn.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/5 "2008-08-09T16:21:17Z")
The Sting was nothin’. Entertaining, but…meh. Go see The Hustler. _Then_ come back and tell us what you missed. 😃
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/6 "2008-08-09T17:56:06Z")
…or _Hud_ or _Cool Hand Luke_…
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/7 "2008-08-09T18:10:52Z")
Or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Or Slap Shot.
I hope the reports of Newman’s impending death, like those of Patrick Swayze, are greatly exaggerated. He is a very classy man, however, and should be permitted to spend his last days in any manner he chooses.
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### Author:  [@takehomenanny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/takehomenanny)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/8 "2008-08-09T20:45:35Z")
[Dead sexy.](http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/8302_0004.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/9 "2008-08-09T21:07:43Z")
I, too, hope these reports are exaggerated. It seems they’ve been circulating since mid-June at least. Newman is no longer a young man, but I hope he has many more years left in him. He’s a fine actor and a good guy. And, as **takehomenanny** ’s link demonstrates, one of the most physically beautiful people ever to have lived.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/10 "2008-08-09T21:09:44Z")
A pity always to lose an icon, but otoh 83, most of it in good health, is a good run. I’d certainly settle for it, and better to go now than to waste away like Heston or Reagan or Estelle Getty.
> [@](#):
>
> MAUDE
> Did you know him?
>
> ```
> HAROLD
> Eh, no.
>
> MAUDE
> Me neither. I heard he was eighty
> years old. I'll be eighty next
> week. A good time to move on,
> don't you think?
>
> HAROLD
> (trying to
> ignore her)
> I don't know.
>
> MAUDE
> I mean, seventy-five is too early,
> but at eighty-five, well, you're
> just marking time and you may as
> well look over the horizon.
>
> ```
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/11 "2008-08-09T21:37:39Z")
If he does die, I hope his last words are “Oh good. For a moment there I thought we were in trouble”
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/12 "2008-08-09T21:41:51Z")
They promised us Swayze only had weeks to live _months_ ago.
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/13 "2008-08-09T21:47:08Z")
Forgot to add:
[Favorite scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kpOyTQNgA8&NR=1)
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/14 "2008-08-09T22:11:00Z")
[QUOTE=takehomenanny]
[Dead sexy.](http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/8302_0004.jpg)
[/QUOTE]
Sort of a poor choice of words… 😉
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/15 "2008-08-09T22:20:36Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane]
Or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Or Slap Shot.
**Nobody’s Fool** : one of his absolute best roles.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/16 "2008-08-09T22:42:03Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco]
They promised us Swayze only had weeks to live _months_ ago.
[/QUOTE]
I’m hoping that’s the case, but after all, Newman is 83 and Swayze is 40ish, IIRC.
Dammit dammit dammit. I just watched the ending of _Cars_ today and I thought Newman must have had a ball voicing the Hudson Hornet. That, and I would assume the Pixar people were squeeing all over themselves that PAUL NEWMAN agreed to voice a cartoon!!!
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/17 "2008-08-09T22:59:31Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky]
…or _Hud_ or _Cool Hand Luke_…
[/QUOTE]
absofuckinglutely!
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### Author:  [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/18 "2008-08-09T23:03:38Z")
[QUOTE=An Arky]
…or _Hud_ or _Cool Hand Luke_…
[/QUOTE]
You beat me to it.
Stranger
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/19 "2008-08-09T23:07:55Z")
I hope things work out peacefully for Paul Newman, if not for all his movies, or his glacially cool blue eyes, but perhaps for his very tasty salad dressing.
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### Author:  [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman-only-has-weeks-to-live/459403/20 "2008-08-09T23:34:33Z")
Well, that’s too damn bad, if it’s true. I know everybody has to go sometime, but Newman circa 1958 was the Platonic Ideal of Man as far as I’m concerned.
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