The personification of cool.

I don't like many 'celebrities', per se, but I remember Paul Newman. Great actor, an even greater humanitarian, committed to family and friends. He was great in "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy"... but for me, Mr. Newman shone as Fast Eddie Felson in "The Color of Money". No one else could have played the part of the world-weary, hard-bitten pool hustler better.

My favorite quote from "The Color of Money":

Eddie Felson: You're some piece of work... You're also a natural character.
Vincent Lauria: [to Carmen] You see? I been tellin' her that. I got natural character.
Eddie Felson: That's not what I said, kid. I said you *are* a natural character; you're an incredible flake.
[Vincent's smile fades; Eddie continues]
Eddie Felson: But that's a *gift*. Some guys spend half their lives trying to invent something like that. You walk into a pool room with that go-go-go, the guys'll be *killing* each other, trying to get to you. You got that... But I'll tell you something, kiddo. You couldn't find Big Time if you had a road map.


He indeed shall be missed.




R.I.P. Paul Newman (1925-2008)