Caffeinated Clint
This is just too sad..
Paul Newman has passed away.
I’ve been a mess these past couple of days, grieving over a little buddy of mine that died, and no doubt a few people are going to be hurting just as much over the death of Newman, as I’ve been Louis. He – Newman, not Louis; though Louis was a legend! – was an icon. A legend. A true movie star. A fuckin’ masterpiece theater on two legs. Fast Eddie…. wow!
In a film career that spanned nearly six decades, Newman received seven Oscar nominations before he was finally presented with an Honorary Oscar in 1986 “in recognition of his many and memorable and compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft.”
But then he pulled out a trump card of his own, winning the best actor Academy Award the following year for “The Color of Money,” in which he reprised the role of pool shark Fast Eddie Felsen, the character he first played 25 years earlier in “The Hustler.” Hardly slowing down as he aged into an ornery character actor, he went on to earn two more nominations — for “Nobody’s Fool” in 1995 and “Road to Perdition” in 2003.
Though he and Robert Redford were considering working together on another film – it never came off.
He’ll be missed.
Full details at The Hollywood Reporter
