Wah! Paul Newman has died.
He was the first celebrity I've ever saw in person. When I was 12 or 13, he came to beautiful downtown Valleyfield to participate in a car race that was held on our frozen bay.
I hated winter even then, but I still trudged down to the bay to try to see him in person. Which I did, and from quite close-up. Certainly close enough that when I got home I said to my parents "he really does have very blue eyes". They were very, very blue.
He was in a lot of cool movies. We should play pool in his honour today.
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paul newman was in valleyfield??!
I hate to be Mr. Memory again, but I believe that Mr. Newman was in Valleyfield when we were at the end of our high school tenure. So you would have been 16 or 17.
Cityofmushrooms: he was in Montreal filming Robert Altman's QUINTET and took part in the race on ice. I desperately wanted to go, but Valleyfield was over 10 miles from my house, which at the time was the equivalent to crossing the Atlantic.
Thank goodness for Mr. Memory. Indeed I see that Quintet was released in 1979, so assuming it was filmed in 1978 or thereabouts, I would've been 17. I really don't remember being that old!
I am perhaps confusing it with when I became a fan of his (Mr. Newman, not Mr. Memory*) and that would've been when The Sting came out which was 1973, when I was 12.
*Obviously, I was and remain a fan of his, too.
J-fan: and you wouldn't cross the atlantic to see mr newman??! (oh, and mr altman!)...shame!
oooops -- been informed I'm mixing up the anon's-
seems "anon J-fan" didn't miss mr newman and altman--"anon mr anon" did
I stand corrected
mr anon: missed altman?!??
"I as in high school" .
(The all-purpose excuse for any stupid moves in one's past)
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