[STARMAN 352ND]

This is so sad....I like watching his movies and was my Dad's favorite actor.
RIP Mr.Newman.
JP

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movi...ead/index.html

[jim]

Very sad news , I really liked Paul Newman, a first rate actor.
The film Cool Hand Luke is burned into my memory forever, a brilliant piece of acting.

[11SQNLDR]

A great actor and a great range of sauces

[Cruver Collecter]

Great actor and will be missed. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid just will not be the same.

[mikeb1958]

One of my favorite actors! Sad to see him go. From the WIKIPEDIA website about his Military Service....

Military service

Newman served in the Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater.^[13] Newman was sent to the Navy V-12 program at Ohio University, with hope of being accepted for pilot training, but this plan was foiled when a flight physical revealed him to be colorblind.^[13][14] He was sent instead to boot camp and then on to further training as a radioman and gunner. Qualifying as a rear-seat radioman and gunner in torpedo bombers, in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barber's Point, Hawaii, and subsequently assigned to Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons (VT-98, VT-99, and VT-100). These torpedo squadrons were responsible primarily for training replacement pilots and combat air crewmen, placing particular importance on carrier landings.^[14] He later flew from aircraft carriers as a tail gunner in the Avenger. As a radioman/gunner, he served aboard the USS Bunker Hill during the battle for Okinawa in the spring of 1945. He was ordered to the ship as radioman/gunner in an Avenger with a draft of replacements shortly before the attack, but by a fluke of war was held back because his pilot had an ear infection. The rest of his detail died.^[15]
After the war, he completed his degree at Kenyon College, graduating in 1949.^[13] Newman later studied acting at Yale University and under Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio in New York City.^[13]
Oscar Levant wrote that Newman was initially hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood: "Too close to the cake," he reported him saying, "Also, no place to study."^[16]

[Paladin18]

An all-time great who will be sorely missed. I still remember watching him in the "Towering Inforno" when I was a kid.