The Verdict: A Legend

It's hard to imagine a life better lived. To stay on top of the world's most glamorous industry for decades, be a contender in one of the mostt dangerous sports, to have a successful and happy personal life, and creating from nothing a business enterprise that donated hundreds of millions to charity. All this and a decent and humble personality.

I remember Mr Newman in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I don't recollect the movie, or any other actor, except Mr Newman. Did Mr Eastwood, act in the movie?

No Academy Award or public accolades could outweigh the reward Paul Newman received from everyone who benefitted from his Hole in the Wall camps or his Newman's Own profits to charity. He was a man's man and a woman's man who tried to keep his personal life out of the public eye as much as possible. Living in Westport, CT was the smartest move he ever made - giving his beloved Joanne and his children a "home" filled with love and good times. My favorite movies of his were: The Sting and The Verdict (he should have won for this one) because he carried that whole picture - he was in almost every scene and you could see his progress from a drunken has-been lawyer to a remarkable one. He will be missed by all of us, especially his family and friends who meant the world to him.

The world was a kinder place with Paul Newman in it.....He will be missed....Peace to you.

Wall Street and the Subprime Sting
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Doyle Lonnegan: Your boss is quite a card player, Mr. Kelly; how does he do it?
Johnny Hooker: He cheats.
(From the Sting)

"This Sucker Could Go Down" "W"

It is ironic, that on the weekend that arguably
the greatest confidence game of all time is
reaching crescendo in Washington in the form of the
mother of all
Wall Street bailouts, Paul Newman, the star of The Sting,
the greatest Confidence movie of all time, has passed on.
In the Sting, Newman plays Henry "Shaw" Gondorf, a master con man who
orchestrates the greatest con until September 2008.

The Sting is chuck full of gangsters, incompetent cops, grifters,
colorful schemers, con men, marks
and shills, and keeps you on the edge of your seat straight though to its conclusion.
Just like the Great Subprime Swindle of 2008, there are
twists and turns galore, and you don't know how it
is going to until the final 10 minutes.

Welcome to the Great Subprime Swindle of 2008.
We are barely into what could not be a more fitting sequel to
the Sting.
In this new episode, the Wall Street gang succeeds
in conning Main Street USA out of its real
estate/retirement nest egg by
employing thousands of mortgage brokers, investment banking con men and
dubious ponziesque securities called collateralized Debt
Obligations and Credit Default Swaps. Like the Sting, the cast
is chuck full of colorful characters like Alan (the "Maestro") Greenspan, Dick (the "Gorilla") Fuld,
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, James "Jimmy" Cayne
Henry "Hank" Paulsen and
Ben Bernanke (who will soon be known as "Father Moral Hazard"). What is it
with gangsters, con men, bankers and
nicknames? In the plot we get to watch innocent
bystanders a dopey mark like
AIG and now the American taxpayer, get conned and swindled out
roughly $700 Billion USD, no one knows for sure. As
in the Sting, the key stone cops (the SEC), show up
long after the action has taken place. Unlike the Sting,
there is no Shaw character to exact poetic justice against
the Wall Street gang.

One hundred years ago a man named Franklin Keyes, Esq.
(you guessed it, a Wall Street lawyer) published a tract
titled: "Wall Street Speculation, Its Tricks and Its Tragedies".
In it he says: "Wall Street is dominated by some of the brainiest
and shrewdest men in the country, natural born sharpers and schemers,
and before the average man can get the better of them,
except through the merest chance,
he will have to eat brain food for a long time."

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Paul Newman, you're than man, rest in peace.

And Mr Newman would have been so very proud to see Mr Obama elected as President of the United States of America.

There is no other way to say it. He was ONE of a kind! of course it's a generalation thing but I wish every yound actor starting out would model themeselves on Mr Newman's approach to "stardom "

he was a class act and will be sorely missed. My condonlences to his family . Joanne has lost her best friend. Big hug to you Joanne

He will be sorely missed indeed. In a business that often spotlights the self absorbed and their foibles and their peccadilloes, Mr Newman was always the quiet gentleman. His talent and his integrity will be missed. May he rest in peace.