A new headline when I awoke this afternoon, something to take our minds off banking failure and bombs in the Indian sub continent. I have to confess I am bummed, but not surprised by the news of Paul Newman's death. There was a charming pre-obituary in last month's Vanity Fair and the name-dropping story confirmed my wisdom in thinking of him as a person worth admiring. I think we would be in a much better place had more people his self deprecating self knowledge and less of the preening stupidity public figures seem so proud to express. His death is just another confirmation I am growing old.
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I hadn't heard that Paul Newman died. He was a class act and an honorable man. The "Newman's Own" company had a business model that put doing "the right thing" ahead of profit and that's another admirable quality that some of those Bank CEO's could use a little of.
Your blog alerted me to the man what died motorcycling in the Mojave desert and I can't help but compare the two- as uneven as such a comparison might be. I would have been disappointed had Newman died in a stunt (on or particualrly off the set).
Point in case about the self deprecating self knowledge: once in an interview, he remarked that his food company made more money than his movies, but he didn't mind if people liked his food better than his image, he was fine with that.
Sad Times. You hit the nail on the head. We are getting older. Seems like every week another icon of our era goes away. May his memory rein forever.
True enough, his food company was agreat idea and the foods themselves are good too. One of his daughters lived/s in Santa Cruz county in California and she I beleive planned the pretzels. Which is actually a food I'm not that fond of.Unless it's at a ball field and they are hot and salty with mustard. Which has nothing to do with anything.
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