# Paul Newman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman/446537 "2008-04-23T13:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman/446537/41 "2008-04-24T23:27:16Z")
I’ll throw in a good word for _Where the Money Is_. Not an Oscar contender, but a fun little caper film. And Newman had great chemistry with Linda Fiorentino, for whom I would crawl over a football field of rusty nails and broken glass. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman/446537/42 "2008-04-25T20:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] I’m confused. The only \*Bang the Drum Slowly \* I know of was a film and Paul Newman wasn’t in it. A very young Robert DeNiro was, however. It was a very good film. [/QUOTE] I saw it on television with Newman in the pitcher’s role. The catcher wasn’t as good as DeNiro or maybe just different, but Newman was just fantastic. He brought that athleticism he had in _Somebody Up There Likes Me_ and added a caringness, a not-quite masculine fragility, that I have never seen him have before or since. It was (as I remember it) incredible. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman/446537/43 "2008-04-25T21:29:58Z")
Just an observation or two about the man. Having grown up with Newman, Eastwood, Connery, Hackman, DeNiro, Pacino, Redford, Duvall and the others in that rough age bracket, all of whom were adults while I was still a teenager (or younger), I have had varying degrees of response to their aging process. Of all of that list, in spite of his being near the older end of the group, I just can’t think of Newman as an old man. Until the last decade or so, he was still getting away with acting “middle aged” and only with his most recent roles has he “gotten old.” Do any of you respond that way? Or has he always been of the Old Crowd for you? Is there some particular age you have frozen in your mind for Newman? I guess he’s always Cool Hand Luke to me. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman/446537/44 "2008-04-26T14:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=well he’s back] Off the very top of my head - My top is “The Verdict”. Absolutely. He was fantastic in that. I used to like "Butch Cassidy but tried to rewatch recently and just couldn’t get through it. I didn’t think the movie aged well at all, but Newman was good, of course. Same for “Hombre”. [/QUOTE] I came in here to say this very thing. I tried to rewatch it a few weeks ago… by today’s standards this movie really sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman/446537/45 "2009-02-26T02:33:38Z")
It’s going on a year since the last post to this thread. Seems fitting to add this: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090225/ap\_on\_en\_mo/paul\_newman\_resolution](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090225/ap_on_en_mo/paul_newman_resolution) > [@](#): > > House passes resolution to honor actor Paul Newman > > Wed Feb 25, 12:22 pm ET > > WASHINGTON – Paul Newman, the late actor and 10-time Academy Award nominee, has been honored by lawmakers as a screen legend and humanitarian. > > Newman died Sept. 26, 2008, at age 83 after a long battle with cancer. The House on Tuesday night approved a resolution recognizing Newman’s achievements on and off screen. > > The resolution said Newman’s “humanitarian works and incomparable talents have made him an American icon who will never be forgotten.” > > The Hollywood star won one Oscar and took home two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including “Cool Hand Luke,” “Exodus,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Verdict,” “The Sting” and “Absence of Malice.” > > Newman and his popular food company, Newman’s Own, have given more than $250 million to charity over the years. He also helped to start “Hole in the Wall” camps across the world for children with life-threatening illnesses. > > The resolution is H.R.18. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-newman/446537.md?page=2)