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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Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. -Captain of the many Bosses Cool Hand Luke is the story of a chain gang and one man who keeps trying to escape. The barflies in Cheers noted that this is the sweatiest movie ever made and the tag line is right up there with We’ll always have Paris. This 1967 film is one of Paul Newman’s best. Cool Hand Luke is a fun movie, despite the fact that it is about a bunch of men tortured by an unjust legal system. Of course, it could be argued that life was a…