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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 8:26 am
This is a sad one. May he rest in peace.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 8:28 am
How very sad. We've lost a true legend, not too many of those left in Hollywood.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 8:29 am
Paul Newman was a class act all the way. He'll be missed! 
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 8:38 am
So sad losing the especially good ones. Have DVDs of Hud and Butch Cassidy. Will be watching them. I saw him in person once at a distance when he was filming The Sting in Union Station in Chicago.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 9:01 am
I forgot...I've also got Nobody's Fool. Good one of his kinda later movies.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 9:11 am
Oh no! He'll be missed. 
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 9:39 am
Believe it or not, before I opened the Passings link, I actually sadly wondered if it could be Paul Newman. I did know he was sick from cancer, and had been thinking about him a lot lately. His Hole in the Wall camp is right here in the town I live in (in Connecticut). I signed up as a volunteer last fall, but never got to participate in a walk they were doing, because my own father (a big Paul Newman fan, he always used to clip anything about Paul and save it for me) passed away just about the same time that the walk was scheduled, and my life was derailed. My father just in the year before he died shared a second-hand story about Paul Newman. The story comes from my Dad's friend, who works at the local hardware store here. It seems that Paul Newman himself came in to buy some things for the camp, and one of the younger clerks wanted to ask for his autograph. However, the young man was told not to: "He doesn't come here as a movie star, just as an ordinary customer to shop in peace and quiet, and we treat our customers with respect for that." I know that Paul and Joanne frequently summered here in their own house/cabin on the Hole in the Wall property. A really cool way to "get away from it all" and do good work at the same time. Peace to Paul and his wife and family.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 9:47 am
He was my own personal heart throb. Those blue, blue eyes of his! A brilliant actor whose movies still rank among my favorites, I admired him for the quiet way in which he he lived his life while "paying it forward."
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Sportsfan
Member
09-03-2007
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 10:33 am
What a sad day, what a beautiful man

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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 10:40 am

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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 10:46 am

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:03 am
RIP Mr. Newman
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:15 am
This is truly a great loss.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:33 am
Mr. Newman generously gave hundreds of millions towards helping others during his lifetime. The Vice-Chairman of the thespian's charity, Newman's Own Foundation, issued the following statement to honor and celebrate one of Hollywood's greatest: Paul Newman's craft was acting. His passion was racing. His love was his family and friends. And his heart and soul were dedicated to helping make the world a better place for all. Paul had an abiding belief in the role that luck plays in one's life, and its randomness. He was quick to acknowledge the good fortune he had in his own life, beginning with being born in America, and was acutely aware of how unlucky so many others were. True to his character, he quietly devoted himself to helping offset this imbalance. An exceptional example is the legacy of Newman's Own. What started as something of a joke in the basement of his home, turned into a highly-respected, multi-million dollar a year food company. And true to form, he shared this good fortune by donating all the profits and royalties he earned to thousands of charities around the world, a total which now exceeds $250 million. While his philanthropic interests and donations were wide-ranging, he was especially committed to the thousands of children with life-threatening conditions served by the Hole in the Wall Camps, which he helped start over 20 years ago. He saw the Camps as places where kids could escape the fear, pain and isolation of their conditions, kick back, and raise a little hell. Today, there are 11 Camps around the world, with additional programs in Africa and Vietnam. Through the Camps, well over 135,000 children have had the chance to experience what childhood was meant to be. In Paul's words: "I wanted to acknowledge luck; the chance and benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, who might not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it." Paul took advantage of what life offered him, and while personally reluctant to acknowledge that he was doing anything special, he forever changed the lives of many with his generosity, humor, and humanness. His legacy lives on in the charities he supported and the Hole in the Wall Camps, for which he cared so much. We will miss our friend Paul Newman, but are lucky ourselves to have known such a remarkable person."
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Just breaks my heart. What a special man he was.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 1:38 pm
He lived life to the fullest. Still drove a race car in his eighties. Very special man. I will miss him greatly.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 4:40 pm
Very sad. He had such a rich life but he did so much for others. 
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 6:08 pm
The Hole in the Wall pages with tributes: home page: http://www5.holeinthewallgang.org/ special tribute page: http://www5.holeinthewallgang.org/tribute5.asp Wonderful warm pictures on each page.
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 6:18 pm
And at "Newman's Own" website, there is a 4-minute video posted, along with the message: "Due to unusually high traffic, our full site is currently unavailable." The link for www.newmansown.com took me to http://63.131.143.186/ which I'm thinking might be a temporary link to handle the high traffic? Subpages are not available.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 8:15 pm
Beth, thank you so much for that link. Yes, still not the whole deal, but the video by Paul is absolutely wonderful. I know I will find a way to give something to the Hole in the Wall Gang in honor of this wonderful man.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 12:12 am
Good video and there are others on youtube after you watch that one.
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Chaplin
Member
01-09-2006
| Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 11:32 am
Sad loss for so many!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paul missed his son when he died so much and now the two of them are probably up there racing together and finding ways to give. He and his wife gave big!
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Erniesgirl
Member
06-26-2006
| Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 7:30 pm
Courtesy of SNS: Eileen Herlie, who played the irrepressible, vivacious, and just generally amazing Myrtle Fargate on "All My Children" since 1976, died on Oct. 8 from complications from pneumonia. She was 90. The Scottish-born Herlie had an impressive stage and film career and could name Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and Montgomery Clift as former co-stars. In 1976, she joined the cast of "All My Children" as Myrtle Fargate, who Phoebe Tyler (the late Ruth Warrick) hired to pose as Kitty Shea's mother in a bid to get the latter out of town. Myrtle stuck around, though, becoming a surrogate mother figure to Erica (Susan Lucci), surrogate grandmother to Bianca (Eden Riegel), beloved advisor/friend to Zach (Thorsten Kaye), and just generally everyone's favorite person. Myrtle's many misadventures included finding her long lost daughter, Rae (Linda Dano), and even falling in love with Santa Claus! And no one can forget her stories from her "carny" days. Eileen is survived by her brother and her nieces and nephews.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 7:32 pm
How sad. I just love the character of Myrtle.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, October 10, 2008 - 4:48 am
awww how sad!

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