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     Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.36.20 |
Paul Newman  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186 |
Great shame - RIP... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
I think he's great in ABSENCE OF MALICE. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
What? Paul Newman? Cool Hand Luke? Fuck, this is terrible, absolutely terrible... :-( | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
The epitome of cool, and one of the best films ever made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4lp6UL8rBQ&feature=related RIP. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVzJ21fHeU&feature=related | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.182.197 |
He made a lot of good movies: COOL HAND LUKE, THE HUSTLER, THE STING, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE VERDICT, and of course BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (to name just a few). He always struck me as being a nice guy, too. It's very sad to see this generation of fine actors passing away. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I'll add Hud, Hombre and Exodus. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei92WBU57vE&NR=1 | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Goddamit... That's a real loss to acting. RIP indeed. gcw | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
It's like yet another piece of my childhood stripped away. The day Clint Eastwood dies, I'm simply giving up, btw. I always thought he was immortal. :-/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.100.0 |
I heard a couple of weeks back that he had come out of hospital to spend his final days with his family but I hadn't heard anything more so I was hoping it had been a false alarm. Obviously not. Shame. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.100.0 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y87EaadjqM | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.178.236 |
Such a sad day. What a great man he was - have read many stories about his kindness and generosity. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I'm still upset about this. I've had such a shit week, followed by a shit weekend, and Newman's death caps it all. Not having a father figure in my life as a young boy, I over-idolised actors like Newman, Eastwood and Cushing. Pathetic, I know, but it helped when I needed it at a tender age. :-/ | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
>>>Not having a father figure in my life as a young boy, I over-idolised Didn't we all, mate. But at least you chose some cool role models. I think mine was Glenn Hoddle. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
But Zed, surely you know that the shit weekend follows the shit week. Just as night follows day... Seriously, I'm sorry to hear that. Hope matters improve soon. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
Chicken Ceasar dressing! He was 83 - to quote that Altman film 'An old man's death is not a tragedy'. Sad, yes, but a time to appreciate what he gave us rather than feel so bad he's gone. He got to make a dent on the world and do a lot of stuff - that's good! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.112.60 |
Oh, I thought you said before that Altman's film said that an old man's death is a tragedy. To me, that seems much more profound. Acceptance of mortality will one day seem so sad. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
The death of a good man like Newman is a tragedy whatever his age - especially when there's so much scum still living in this world. I'll never ever accept mortality. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
Oh, you will - in the end. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
Oh, I don't accept it, but sometimes we have to or we'd go nuts with grief. I spent half an hour crying thinking my gerbil was going to die on Friday and he's three! Actually, my wife just lost a cousin over the weekend to cancer - he's about two years older than me, with young kids. It's really hit her. The Paul Newman thing was put into perspective by it somewhat. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Nope. I'll never accept it, merely block it out and pretend that I'm immortal. The best line ever written in poetry: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light". | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
my wife just lost a cousin over the weekend to cancer - he's about two years older than me, with young kids. That's tragic, mate. Tragic. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
The best line ever written in poetry: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light". Well naturally - it was Welsh! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I always prefer Yeats' grim summation of the human condition: "Sick with desire/And fastened to a dying animal." Irish, you know. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Sounds like university to me | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
I think old people accept their mortality...I dunno, I mean, if you didn't you have old people having hysterics & panic attacks running down the street. Or maybe they do and we just don't notice...after all we don't notice old people do we? Probably because we fear ageing. gcw | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Marie's dad, at 87, is in the process of forgetting everything. I think we just slip into a sort of blankness, and don't give a hoot whatever happens. Being young and near death must be petrifying, though. I thought I had a cancerous knacker once and the terror was just dreadful - nothing can evoke it. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
I've never seen the fear of a cancerous ball. Lop it off. Bye. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
..they've been nuthin' but trouble to me... gcw  |