Food Related are you kidding me...
"get mad at dem eggs boy"

Good point! EL

Ok, Hue - ya beat me to the punch!

EL, I believe that every cent Mr. Newman made from the salad dressing, popcorn and sauces went to charity. On a non-food note, I'm amazed that he was a Hollywood star who stayed with one partner for lord knows how many years! He was a mensch among men!

Altogether now: "Mah boy kin eat fifty eggs!"

RIP, Paul.

I adore Paul Newman but that egg-eating scene has always made me so queasy I couldn't watch. Yuck.

The Newman's Own salsa is great (hot only, please). I like to put it in the blender a bit before serving - better consistency and brightens the flavors.

According to The Times obit, they changed the name of Lew Archer to Harper just to try and capitalize on the success of the "H" movies. It also pisses me off to no end that people of my generation, under 35, think the 50 eggs quote comes from Reality Bites. Seriously.

Well, how many times have you heard someone say "We don't need no stinkin' badges" and they think it's from something made two years ago. It's been in a billion comedies. I thought it was from Blazing Saddles originally until I saw its real source. Which is?

Movie/literary trivia: Joseph Heller originally called his book Catch 17, but they changed it at the last minute after the very popular Stalag 17 came out. This rain is deadly. Wanna meet me in X Keys for a latte LJ?

Rainy rainy day. It would be such a great day to watch an old Newman movie with Maggie the Cat, erh, Bourbon Girl, but alas she is tied up with her court-ordered community service work with the narcoleptic.

I'm so sad. Paul Newman was the coolest guy this side of Steve McQueen. He raced cars until he was 80 - the cool kind, not those hillbilly crapmobiles I saw him on Letterman last year and he went six stories above Broadway in a lawn chair attached to several thousand regular party balloons. Letterman was freaking out a little, but Newman kept saying "Higher, higher". Oh great, now I'm really sad.

I just saw something on IMDB that referred to Rutger Hauer as the Dutch Paul Newman. Weird. Here's his oeuvre:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/

Paul Newman + Klaus Kinski = Rutger Hauer?

The Hustler is the best and it's an absolutely perfect movie in many ways. If you ever want to know what a cinematographer does, watch this movie and see an absolute masterpiece of shots and framing. And it's in glorious B&W 2.35:1 CinemaScope. Robert Rossen did something magical with the wide screen photography here, because it's not an epic, it's filmed in bars and dirty pool halls with artificial lighting. He created more drama with a black and white pallet (and mostly grey) than most of the bloated wide screen epics of the time. Watch the camera move like a shark. It's beautiful. And Newman as the beautiful loser was exquisite. The scene where they break his hand is heart-wrenching. Paul Newman is dead and Tom Cruise lives. Today blows. I need a little Bourbon.

Joyce W. -- true, the Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward marriage lasted 50 years, but he was previously married (and his romancing of Woodward led to the breakup of his first marriage).

Owl, "mundacity" is the word that Brick would have used for how you're feeling today. Yes, a good day indeed for Maggie the cat. Too bad the movie channel gods don't seem to have picked up on that!

hmpstd, yes, a second marriage that led to the death of a first marriage,but still 50 years? in Hollywood? who else has accomplished that? not Elizabeth Taylor that's for sure (another nod to Maggie the cat!)

RIP Paul,

One of the coolest actors there was, besides perhaps Clint Eastwood.

My favorite Newman flick was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That leap off the cliff at the end was way cool.

@OMG-I didn't know that about the "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" I thought it was a Blazin Saddles thing too!

The Badges quote is from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Walter Huston directed by his father and starring Humphrey Bogart.

What exceedingly sad news...(I've been out of touch today...I just heard this, this evening.)

That Paul Newman was Americ'a greatest movie actor can be debated, I suppose. But he is certainly in the debate and it's a pretty small group of actors that we would be arguing about.

Vaya con Dios, Paul Newman, vaya con Dios.

Stinkin Badges was Sierra Madre with Walter Houston but wasn't it directed by his son John Houston?
Butch and Sundance don't die from that leap, but in South America in a
hail of bullets.
Ms Taylor was one beautiful woman when in her prime.
"goin ninety it ain't scary
cause I got the Virgin Mary"

First time;long time. I'll always remember Paul Newman's quote when asked about the temptations of "fooling around" with the many women who adored him. "Why go out for hamburger, when you have steak at home?" He and Ms Woodward had something special and it continued to evolve for fifty years. RIP Paul Newman. You will be missed... and remembered.

Let's give Joanne Woodward some credit for keeping that steak sizzling. I actually imagine that it was the intelligent exchange of ideas that provided that sizzle.

Nice "Plastic Jesus" reference, Hue. I hadn't thought of that song in a long time.

I don't care if it rains or freezes
long as I've got my plastic Jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car.

To complete the "...stinkin' badges" trivia, the line was spoken by Alfonso Bedoya in the role of "Gold Hat," a Mexican bandito posing as a Federale.

Ahh, so sad about Paul Newman. Talk about leaving his mark on the world, though. After moving from Baltimore to a small town, the grocery stores have presented big challenges. Just try finding organic grains, all natural spices, etc. But Newman's own was my savior - the stores would carry that b/c well, it was Paul Newman. And when I had to convince a loved one to forgo creamy salad dressings for vinaigrettes to combat heart problems, there was Paul Newman smiling on the picture of a tasty bottle of vinaigrette. My selling pitch was ' Look, it is Paul Newman!' And it worked.

I hope the Newman's Own line will continue indefinately. I love the little stories on the back of the packages.

Let's not forget "what we got here is a failure to communicate" - also from Cool Hand Luke.

I read this post by a chef I know in Puerto Vallarta. Bruce isn’t known for his typing or spelling skills but his message comes across.

“as a few people know i was pauls chef for 8 years with newman haas racing vip events
a little known fact that every volunteer was fed by the team and his sponsors for free
1500 lunches and 1500 diners

pauls son scott was his main reason for the charity called the scott newman fundation wich later turned into newmans own

oh the stories i can tell you about his antics
he taught me so much
butthe bestthing he tought me was to take pride in everything you do
jo jo his wife and i used to make some pretty good wine and always enjoyed it on my birthday july 14th wich ironically was always race week in toronto

yes he will be missed by so many especially close friends like robert redford
he and robert where the best of friends and the jokes they used to play on each other where just terrible

the memories he gave me will never leave me especially my pool skills
for my 35th birthday he gave me the original george balabushka pool cue he used to play with along side jackie gleason in the hustler

ciao paul”

I think the Newman's Own brand funds the Scott Newman Foundation, named for the son who died of a drug OD, and the Hole in the Wall Camps for underprivileged or chronically ill children.

Actually, Matt, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was the other way around--young Walter Huston directed his father as the old prospector.

OOPS..correction! JOHN Huston directed lhis father Walter Huston in TOSM. Sorry bout that!

Thanks Dottie, I also keep getting my Hustons mixed-up. Eventually, John directed his daughter Angelica in Prizzi's Honor, thereby completing some sort of circle.

Right on with that quote, Joyce W., but I always heard it as "What we have heah is a faiwure to commoonicate."

I might have fallen in love with Rutger Hauer in Ladyhawke, but he was still no Paul Newman.

One last bit about the ". . .stinking badges. . ." bit: is is also one of the most misquoted lines. The actual line is:
"Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!"

Paul Newman will be missed terribly.

Dahlink, you said it!

Mr. Newman worked summer stock in Williams Bay, WI

sompon, Newman's Own supports a number of organizations and good causes, including the "Hole in the Wall Camps" for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.