Paul Newman’s Dead – What Does Arnold Schwarzenegger Think?
This weekend, the world lost Paul Newman to cancer – a sad but hardly surprising piece of news, given his age and ill health.
However, although he may have physically passed away, Paul Newman will never really die – he’ll live on forever in our hearts and minds with both his indelible, iconic movie roles and also his yummo salad dressing.
When someone as legendary as Paul Newman passes away, it’s only natural for other celebrities to share their memories of the deceased with everyone. So, as such, we’ve decided to pass on perhaps the most relevant tribute of all – Paul Newman’s co-star in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, The Sting and Termintor 3: Rise Of The Machines, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
On Friday night, Paul Newman died after a period of ill health. He was 83. During his lifetime, Paul Newman managed to succeed in industries as varied as food production, philanthropy and NASCAR, but the thing that he’ll go down in history for is his movie work.
The Hustler, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, The Hudsucker Proxy, Road To Perdition – regardless of the age he made them, Paul Newman imbued all these movies with the sort of intelligent, dignified, macho cool that only really comes along once a generation.
So, as such, it’s only right that one of the men we should be paying attention to in the wake of Paul Newman’s death is his spiritual successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger – the man who took Paul Newman’s nuanced ethos and applied it to films about angry vikings and pregnant men.
Addressing a crowd of Olympians and Paralympians in California this weekend, Arnold Schwarzenegger took the time to commemorate Paul Newman’s passing. The Mercury News reports:
“There’s just one thing, news that we have, that is sad,” the governor said. “Last night Paul Newman passed away because of cancer, and so our thoughts and prayers go out to Joanne (Woodward)—his wife—and to his friends and his family.” Schwarzenegger had met Newman but never appeared with him in a movie.
Of course, it’s only right for Arnold Schwarzenegger to publicly mention Paul Newman’s death – as Governor of California, he’s ultimately in charge of a state that’s just 2,865 short miles away from where Newman lived.
Anyway, now that Schwarzenegger has paid tribute to Paul Newman, the grieving process can begin in earnest. And, if that means we’ll all get to watch Cool Hand Luke again in memorial, then at least some good can come of it.
Paul Newman dead is sad. I truly enjoyed everything he did and the way he lived his life.
Schwarzenegger DID appear with Paul Newman in a movie, sort of. Remember the yellow Hummer from “Cars”?
“Lightning McQueen must be found, at all costs!”
Okay, it’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s in there…
We’ll miss you, Paul.
RIP Paul Newman. He WAS great – but he was no Steve McQueen…but then neither is Steve McQueen any more, so that balances things out a bit. I know Newman had that charity sauce thing, but McQueen invented a racing car seat – and I know which one I’d rather be sitting in when I’m doing 110 down the M6 with my eyes shut.
Newman was a bit of a lad for the cars as well, magnetite. He became a pro motor racer in the ’70s. He was badass. Raced long after we’ll all be too old to do anything but shit ourselves and bore the staff at the nursing home…
it’s hard not to admire Paul Newman for putting his money to work in such productive ways, such as his Newman’s Own line–high quality stuff and the proceeds go to good causes… very smart.