She was with her daughter Luci. It was not unusual to see her in
Austin "out and about."
K.
On Sep 28, 2008, at 434AM, Tawana Gormley wrote:
Lurker Alert!!!
It is almost 5:30 in the morning here on the east coast. This is
about the time that I typically read all of my MOPO postings. I
usually share some of the funny and interesting stories with my
husband (often waking him from a deep sleep with my giggles).
Now, after reading the story from Kirby, I can not help but
wondering...What was Lady Bird doing in a cafeteria line?
Hahahahahahahaha!
TGormley
---- Original Message -----
From: McDaniel Kirby
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Paul Newman Dead
So many great film memories.
I saw the man once. Jose Carpio and I attended a performance of the
Harold Prince revival of SHOW BOAT
on Broadway in the early nineties. There were lots of celebrities
in the audience. The play had only been open
a few nights and was an amazing hit and a wonderful revival. Newman
and Joanne Woodward were walking
around in the lobby at intermission. I am one of the worst
celebrity spotters imaginable (I once was in a
cafeteria line next to Lady Bird Johnson and would not have
recognized her were it not for her inimitable voice).
Jose could spot a movie star a mile away. He pointed out Paul
Newman to me. It was nice moment.
Kirby
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On Sep 27, 2008, at 946AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Truly one of the greats. My personal favorite of his without
hesitation HUD.
Below is just posted obituary from the NYTIMES
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning
superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver,
popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool
Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.
Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse
near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by
his family and close friends.
In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of
"Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues.
He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and
went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film
stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for
Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones,
and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including
"Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The
Sting" and "Absence of Malice."
Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half
century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman,
Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included
Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most
famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The
Sting."
He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne
Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term
marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman
told Playboy magazine (NYSE:PLA) when asked if he was tempted to
stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in
"The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films,
including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie."
With his strong, classically handsome face and piercing blue eyes,
Newman was a heartthrob just as likely to play against his looks,
becoming a favorite with critics for his convincing portrayals of
rebels, tough guys and losers. "I was always a character actor," he
once said. "I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."
Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of
millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps
for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War,
and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he
ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's
proudest achievements, he liked to say.
A screen legend by his mid-40s, he waited a long time for his first
competitive Oscar, winning in 1987 for "The Color of Money," a
reprise of the role of pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson, whom Newman
portrayed in the 1961 film "The Hustler."
Newman delivered a magnetic performance in "The Hustler," playing a
smooth-talking, whiskey-chugging pool shark who takes on Minnesota
Fats -- played by Jackie Gleason -- and becomes entangled with a
gambler played by George C. Scott. In the sequel -- directed by
Scorsese -- "Fast Eddie" is no longer the high-stakes hustler he
once was, but rather an aging liquor salesman who takes a young
pool player (Cruise) under his wing before making a comeback.
He won an honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and
memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal
integrity and dedication to his craft." In 1994, he won a third
Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his charitable work.
His most recent academy nod was a supporting actor nomination for
the 2002 film "Road to Perdition." One of Newman's nominations was
as a producer; the other nine were in acting categories. (Jack
Nicholson holds the record among actors for Oscar nominations, with
12; actress Meryl Streep has had 14.)
As he passed his 80th birthday, he remained in demand, winning an
Emmy and a Golden Globe for the 2005 HBO drama "Empire Falls" and
providing the voice of a crusty 1951 car in the 2006 Disney-Pixar
hit, "Cars."
But in May 2007, he told ABC's "Good Morning America" he had given
up acting, though he intended to remain active in charity projects.
"I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want
to," he said. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your
invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me."
He received his first Oscar nomination for playing a bitter,
alcoholic former star athlete in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof." Elizabeth Taylor played his unhappy wife and Burl Ives his
wealthy, domineering father in Tennessee Williams' harrowing drama,
which was given an upbeat ending for the screen.
In "Cool Hand Luke," he was nominated for his gritty role as a
rebellious inmate in a brutal Southern prison. The movie was one of
the biggest hits of 1967 and included a tagline, delivered one time
by Newman and one time by prison warden Strother Martin, that
helped define the generation gap, "What we've got here is (a)
failure to communicate."
Newman's hair was graying, but he was as gourgeous as ever and on
the verge of his greatest popular success. In 1969, Newman teamed
with Redford for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a comic
Western about two outlaws running out of time. Newman paired with
Redford again in 1973 in "The Sting," a comedy about two Depression-
era con men. Both were multiple Oscar winners and huge hits,
irreverent, unforgettable pairings of two of the best-looking
actors of their time.
Newman also turned to producing and directing. In 1968, he directed
"Rachel, Rachel," a film about a lonely spinster's rebirth. The
movie received four Oscar nominations, including Newman, for
producer of a best motion picture, and Woodward, for best actress.
The film earned Newman the best director award from the New York
Film Critics.
In the 1970s, Newman, admittedly bored with acting, became
fascinated with auto racing, a sport he studied when he starred in
the 1972 film, "Winning." After turning professional in 1977,
Newman and his driving team made strong showings in several major
races, including fifth place in Daytona in 1977 and second place in
the Le Mans in 1979.
"Racing is the best way I know to get away from all the rubbish of
Hollywood," he told People magazine in 1979.
Despite his love of race cars, Newman continued to make movies and
continued to pile up Oscar nominations, his looks remarkably
intact, his acting becoming more subtle, nothing like the mannered
method performances of his early years, when he was sometimes
dismissed as a Brando imitator. "It takes a long time for an actor
to develop the assurance that the trim, silver-haired Paul Newman
has acquired," Pauline Kael wrote of him in the early 1980s.
In 1982, he got his Oscar fifth nomination for his portrayal of an
honest businessman persecuted by an irresponsible reporter in
"Absence of Malice." The following year, he got his sixth for
playing a down-and-out alcoholic attorney in "The Verdict."
In 1995, he was nominated for his slyest, most understated work
yet, the town curmudgeon and deadbeat in "Nobody's Fool." New York
Times critic Caryn James found his acting "without cheap sentiment
and self-pity," and observed, "It says everything about Mr.
Newman's performance, the single best of this year and among the
finest he has ever given, that you never stop to wonder how a guy
as good-looking as Paul Newman ended up this way."
Newman, who shunned Hollywood life, was reluctant to give
interviews and usually refused to sign autographs because he found
the majesty of the act offensive, according to one friend.
He also claimed that he never read reviews of his movies.
"If they're good you get a fat head and if they're bad you're
depressed for three weeks," he said.
Off the screen, Newman had a taste for beer and was known for his
practical jokes. He once had a Porsche installed in Redford's
hallway -- crushed and covered with ribbons.
"I think that my sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me
sane," he told Newsweek magazine in a 1994 interview.
In 1982, Newman and his Westport neighbor, writer A.E. Hotchner,
started a company to market Newman's original oil-and-vinegar
dressing. Newman's Own, which began as a joke, grew into a
multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing,
spaghetti sauce and other foods. All of the company's profits are
donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than
$175 million, according to its Web site.
In 1988, Newman founded a camp in northeastern Connecticut for
children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. He went
on to establish similar camps in several other states and in Europe.
He and Woodward bought an 18th century farmhouse in Westport, where
they raised their three daughters, Elinor "Nell," Melissa and Clea.
Newman had two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and a son, Scott,
from a previous marriage to Jacqueline Witte.
Scott died in 1978 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium.
After his only son's death, Newman established the Scott Newman
Foundation to finance the production of anti-drug films for children.
Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of two boys of
Arthur S. Newman, a partner in a sporting goods store, and Theresa
Fetzer Newman.
He was raised in the affluent suburb of Shaker Heights, where he
was encouraged him to pursue his interest in the arts by his mother
and his uncle Joseph Newman, a well-known Ohio poet and journalist.
Following World War II service in the Navy, he enrolled at Kenyon
College in Gambier, Ohio, where he got a degree in English and was
active in student productions.
He later studied at Yale University's School of Drama, then headed
to New York to work in theater and television, his classmates at
the famed Actor's Studio including Brando, James Dean and Karl
Malden. His breakthrough was enabled by tragedy: Dean, scheduled to
star as the disfigured boxer in a television adaptation of Ernest
Hemingway's "The Battler," died in a car crash in 1955. His role
was taken by Newman, then a little-known performer.
Newman started in movies the year before, in "The Silver Chalice,"
a costume film he so despised that he took out an ad in Variety to
apologize. By 1958, he had won the best actor award at the Cannes
Film Festival for the shiftless Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer."
In December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told
Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age.
"I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical,
I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your
liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said.
Newman is survived by his wife, five children, two grandsons and
his older brother Arthur.
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