11 Responses to “I bow to GREATNESS”

1. Joshua James on Saturday: 27 September 2008|1038

   Gotta tell ya, this one has rocked me, more than most, and not just because I loved Cool Hand Luke and The Verdict, it’s really sort of hit me deep.

   Newman was, by all accounts, an incredibly decent person and stand-up guy who, in addition to acting in movies and directing theatre and racing cars in his spare time, ran camps for kids with cancer and started up a salad dressing business in which one hundred percent of the profits go to charity.

   Oh, and how can you not love a guy who ends up on Nixon’s enemies list?

   The word “Legend” gets tossed around a lot, but this is one guy (up there with McQueen) who truly earned it.

   Damn, man.

2. CHristian Howell on Saturday: 27 September 2008|1141

   What we have here is a failure to communicate. It sounded so much better when Newman said it.

   This has been a bad year.

3. Ann Wesley Hardin on Saturday: 27 September 2008|1244

   Full agreement here. This one hit me harder than most. Unfrickinbelievable.

4. sal on Sunday: 28 September 2008|1210

   Very sad loss indeed. A movie star of the old school, and all round good guy it seems.

5. emily blake on Sunday: 28 September 2008|1434

   He was so cool. I bet he and Jesus are scoping chicks and smoking cigarettes together right now.

6. daveednyc on Monday: 29 September 2008|1355

   “If he’d just pay me what he’s spending to make me stop robbing him, I’d stop robbing him.”

   Newman was a class-act; an actor, not a celebrity, an activist, but not a blowhard.

   Check him out in “Hudsucker Proxy”. It showcases him at his comedic best, IMO.

7. screenwritingforhollywood on Wednesday: 1 October 2008|1420

   “a failure to communicate”
   Just saw clips of this recently. Amazing.

   I watch the news, I read the Net, and I have not heard of his passing yet… Very sad. I didn’t realize he was that old. Thanks for the information.

8. Chris J. Scurria on Friday: 24 October 2008|0548

   Wow. I didn’t know of the dressing going to charity. I think everyone will miss him and new people who just heard of his name will start looking to the film collection that he left behind.

   Cloris Leachman has spoken on E. T. that she did a movie with him in the past and she “sung” to him that she later noticed sounded more like a mewing noise (ha ha; her word not mine).

   God bless his family and friends who are survived by him.

   God loves ‘em. . .

9. Chris J. Scurria on Friday: 24 October 2008|0550

   I remember when my dad’s mom died. . . it was more of a change on the inside.

   I love ya.

10. Chris J. Scurria on Saturday: 25 October 2008|0024

    May she rest. . . wherever she is.

11. Chris J. Scurria on Tuesday: 28 October 2008|2135

    two gone from this world at 83. Words can’t describe.

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