we have a framed poster - spook brought it with her - on a small wall in the living room of Newman. the photo's black and white and he's in costume on the set of Butch Cassidy. he's slid down against a door, his long legs up, fully extended against the opposite side, and he's reading what looks like the script. he's got a cigar in his mouth and a slight furrow to his brow. it's one of my favorite images.
cofax links to a piece on Newman done by Vanity Fair that's out this month. i may have to give VF my money for the first time in years.
"Somewhere, Paul is having a friendly argument with Chuck Heston over who won last night’s debate."
the grace of the man in a nutshell. Paul Newman was all about respect; it permeated everything he did.
"Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out. Together they cost less than one tenth of a per cent of world GDP. If the human race can not afford this, then it doesn't deserve the epithet 'human'."
-Steven Hawking
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guess it's quote day in my brain...
"When all is said and done, Civilizations do not fall because of the barbarians at the gates. Nor does a great city fall from the death wish of bored and morally bankrupt stewards presumably sworn to its defense. Civilizations fall only because each citizen of the city comes to accept that nothing can be done to rally and rebuild broken walls; that ground lost may never be recovered; and that greatness lived in our grandparents but not our grandchildren. Yes, our betters tell us these things daily. But that doesn’t mean we have to believe it."
they're not *my* betters and i most certainly do not believe them. life is hard. it's complicated. humans are messy, flawed and short-sighted. none of that is new, however. we choose to see the sky falling and it does. i choose not to and, lo, it does not. it sure gets heavy from time to time but that, my friends, is nowhere near the same thing.
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