Paul Newman (1925 - 2008)

Paul Newman never much cared for what he once called the "rubbish" of Hollywood, choosing to live in a quiet community on the opposite corner of the U.S. map, staying with his wife of many years and — long after he became bored with acting — pursuing his dual passions of philanthropy and race cars. And yet despite enormous success in both endeavors and a vile distaste for celebrity, the Oscar-winning actor never lost the aura of a towering Hollywood movie star, turning in roles later in life that carried all the blue-eyed, heartthrob cool of his anti-hero performances in Hud, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.


Não é noticia que me apetecesse dar aqui no nosso estabelecimento, mas morreu um dos meus actores favoritos de sempre. O senhor Paul Newman faleceu hoje aos 83 anos de idade com cancro de pulmão, e apesar de estar doente á já algum tempo morreu como viveu a sua vida, discretamente em casa com a família e os amigos. Trabalhou com alguns dos mais brilhantes realizadores de cinema, de Alfred Hitchcock a John Huston a Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese e os Coen brothers.

Fez uma parceria memorável e inesquecivel com Robert Redford no filme Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (simplesmente brilhante) e no filme The Sting. Ganhou um Oscar com o filme The Color of Money. Apoiante de inumeras causas humanitárias "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."

Nas palavras de Robert Redford, "There is a point where feelings go beyond words", "I have lost a real friend. My life — and this country — is better for his being in it."

Deixo então aqui uma pequena cena do filme Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, como homenagem a este actor intemporal.



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