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Paul Newman: Grace Notes and Memories

  • The death of Paul Newman has opened up a big box of Newman memories. Here are some highlights.

    => The LA Times has marvelous photos of Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward as a young couple.

    => A Westport, Connecticut obituary, with the focus on his local life.

    => ESPN has the dope on his racing career.

    => A lengthy appreciation by Oregonian film critic Shawn Levy, who has been working on a Newman biography. Levy includes his list of Newman’s 13 best films.

    => The BBC has an all-too-short collection of Newman movie clips. And a nice little remembrance from his Welsh in-laws.

    => A 2004 Times of London interview, with Newman as feisty as ever. (Asked for his own epitaph: “I used to think it would be ‘Here lies Paul Newman, whose career ended when his eyes turned brown.'”)

    => The remarkable history of Newman’s Own, Inc., the “joke that got out of control.”

    => On Butch Cassidy: International movie posters. And the AFI has the original (and slightly tone-deaf) trailer for the film.

    => On video: An early screen test with James Dean

    …and Newman’s famous jury summation from another of his great performances, in The Verdict, as beaten-down attorney Frank Galvin:

    Thanks for everything, Mr. Newman.

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