The world lost an acting legend earlier today when we learned that Paul Newman had passed away after losing a long battle with cancer at the age of 83.
His career was second to none. Newman was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award and finally took one home for best-actor for The Color of Money in 1986 and he also received two honorary Oscars.
As a leading man he starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and his love of racing was well known as a part owner of his own race team. He was also an avid driver himself.
I think he enjoyed playing the anti-hero — most notably, in Cool Hand Luke (1967), where he starred as a man who refuses to conform to life in a rural prison, in Butch Cassidy (1969), in which he played an outlaw, and in The Sting (1973), playing a con man.
The very first movie I can recall seeing him in was the 1974 disaster film, The Towering Inferno.
The list of his movies is amazing and you can view them by visiting his page on the Internet Movie Database.
From his brand of Newman's Own line of salad dressings, pasta sauces and salsa created in 1982 to his contributions to the fight against cancer and helping people to fight drug addiction he did it all.
Of course the role I will always remember him for was as Player-Coach Reggie Dunlop in what I consider to be not only the best hockey movie but the best sports movie of all time...Slap Shot (1977). It is a classic.
Here now for you to enjoy is a clip from that movie where Coach Dunlop finally gives the Hanson Brothers their shot to play for the Charlestown Chiefs. This clip is rated PG.
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