Paul Newman 1925-2008 RIP

The Color of Money was my favorite Paul Newman movie. Paul Newman was already an old man when he made it and one of the funny bits in the film is how he needs glasses before he can play great pool again. I read somewhere that they wanted him to play one of the Old Men in Grumpy Old Men, but that he refused since he didn’t play ‘old.’ Even in the Road to Perdition he was only playing an older man, though he was clearly a much older man at the time. The last part I saw him play…

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