Paul Newman: 1925-2008In a career that spanned over half a century, the late Paul Newman played characters who ranged from heartless, selfish jerks such as Hud, to charming rogues like Luke Jackson, Henry Gondorff, and Reg Dunlop. Many of Paul Newman’s characters in
both categories had a problem with women, alcohol, or both. With his slim build and gravelly voice, Newman was the kind of man many women want to be with and many men want to be like.Paul Newman was equally adept at playing heavy drama or slapstick comedy, whether his costars were Robert Redford or little knowns, as in the 70′s hockey farce Slap Shot. It was hard to believe that Paul Newman was four years older than my Dad. Newman has been missed in the film industry the past few years and will be missed in our World. Here are my favorite Paul Newman movies in chronological order, oldest first, with the note that I haven’t seen many of his films prior to the late 60′s.10. The HustlerThe first of two times Newman portrayed “Fast” Eddie Felson, pool shark. Newman’s Fast Eddie pursues a match with Minnesota Fats, played by Jackie Gleason like Captain Ahab chasing the Great White Whale. Eddie has Minnesota Fats down, but loses it all, gets his thumbs broken later, has his girlfriend commit suicide after she is violated by Eddie’s gambling sponsor played by George C. Scott. In the end, Newman’s Eddie finally beats Fats, but only after great personal expense.9. Cool Hand LukeSet in a Florida prison where cruel and unusual punishment is the norm, Paul Newman plays Luke Jackson, known as “Cool Hand Luke”. Luke is looked up to as a hero by the other inmates, especially escapes and sends his buddies a picture of himself with two attractive women. As usual, when Luke escapes from the prison he is eventually captured and returned to harsh discipline administered by the Captain (Strother Martin). When Luke finally breaks and begs for mercy, the other inmates lose respect for him and tear up the picture, which was fake. In the end, Luke finally defies the Captain one too many times. It is from this film that the phrase “what we have here is a failure to communicate” is derived.
Top 10 Paul Newman Movies
Reasons to Love AOL Broadband DSL
Why America Online Defeats Its Negative StereotypeWhen it comes to email management programs and web browsers, AOL Broadband DSL gets a bad rap. And it’s really a shame because it doesn’t necessarily deserve it. Sure, Time Warner/AOL is a corporate giant who has a major agenda of taking a
portion of your monthly budget for as long as you live, but it also has some really positive attributes and there are many reasons to love AOL Broadband DSL.To begin with, let me state that America Online and I are a very unlikely couple. I tend to not fit in well with your typical “mainstream” and hip products and services, in fact I’m quite the laggard when it comes to adapting to the latest craze of any genre. But I’ve had AOL ever since I caught on to the Internet buzz and I have no plans to change that . There are many great features about America Online and to make it easy I will illustrate each reason to love AOL broadband DSL, or at least some of them, below, numerically. 1) Email Management- The entire email application portion of the convenient AOL broadband DSL is extremely convenient and easy to use. Granted, it is basic and I do agree that people handling large amounts of business correspondences would be better suited with Outlook. But if you do a lot of in and out emailing with friends, it is great. For one, the program allows you to gather 1000 emails in y our box before they start bouncing back to the sender. And the new emails stay in your box for a month before the system deletes them. So if you go out of town let’s say, or maybe, like in my case, your internet gets shut off because you didn’t pay your bill for a little while, you don’t have to worry about your mail getting lost. The never read email is in bold lettering and the read mail that you wish to keep new is in unbolded type. Also you can search through your mail by subject or email to try to find something or organize the entries in order of date, subject or email address. Its’ very easy to read.