Comments on: Paul Newman Dies http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2008/09/paul-newman-dies.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: movie fan http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2008/09/paul-newman-dies.html#comment-252 movie fan Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:16:51 +0000 http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2008/09/paul-newman-dies.html#comment-252 it's hard not to admire Paul Newman for putting his money to work in such productive ways, such as his Newman's Own line--high quality stuff and the proceeds go to good causes... very smart. it’s hard not to admire Paul Newman for putting his money to work in such productive ways, such as his Newman’s Own line–high quality stuff and the proceeds go to good causes… very smart.

]]> By: Robert http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2008/09/paul-newman-dies.html#comment-242 Robert Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:45:09 +0000 http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/2008/09/paul-newman-dies.html#comment-242 I had forgotten until I reread part of William Goldman's "Which Lie Did I Tell?" this summer (or maybe it was "Adventures in the Screen Trade") that Redford was originally supposed to be the star of "The Verdict," but he kept sending the script back for rewrites, which frustrated Richard Zanuck and David Brown, the producers. When they learned he was working on the script with Sydney Pollack and trying to get him interested in directing the movie behind their backs, they fired him and got Newman. It was sad to read that Redford and Newman were planning to collaborate one last time with "A Walk in the Woods." I wonder if Pollack would've been interested in directing it if it had been made before 2007, when he got sick, since he'd directed both of them before. George Roy Hill, the director of "Butch" and "The Sting," died in ... 2002, I think? And he hadn't made any movies since "Funny Farm" in '88. I think "Nobody's Fool" is Jeff Giles's favorite movie. I'd like to see it again. I had forgotten until I reread part of William Goldman’s “Which Lie Did I Tell?” this summer (or maybe it was “Adventures in the Screen Trade”) that Redford was originally supposed to be the star of “The Verdict,” but he kept sending the script back for rewrites, which frustrated Richard Zanuck and David Brown, the producers. When they learned he was working on the script with Sydney Pollack and trying to get him interested in directing the movie behind their backs, they fired him and got Newman.

It was sad to read that Redford and Newman were planning to collaborate one last time with “A Walk in the Woods.” I wonder if Pollack would’ve been interested in directing it if it had been made before 2007, when he got sick, since he’d directed both of them before. George Roy Hill, the director of “Butch” and “The Sting,” died in … 2002, I think? And he hadn’t made any movies since “Funny Farm” in ‘88.

I think “Nobody’s Fool” is Jeff Giles’s favorite movie. I’d like to see it again.

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