"Your days are exhausted."
Let me say to him:
"I don't just live in time,
I live in love."
He will ask: "Will your song be passed on? "
I would say: "I don't know,
I only know that when I sing , I
often find my eternity."
-Tagore "The Story of the Flowing Firefly"
Paul Newman said goodbye to us twice.
In May 2007, Paul Newman announced his retiring after dubbing "Cars 2". He mocked himself and said: "Hey, I'm 82 years old and can't do it anymore." The news shocked fans all over the world. We We all know that he has a pair of azure blue eyes that never fade. We thought he would always smirk with cigarettes like Butch Cassidy in "Little Tiger"; we also know that it is this old man. More than a year ago, he stepped into a toy car as a veteran racing fan and easily defeated the talk show host Jay Leno; this old man also laughed to reporters: "The meaning of age. Perhaps it is that my liver can no longer handle a morning beer. "Unconsciously, what we have not noticed is that he is already an elderly man in his eighties.
Facing the camera, Paul Newman said: "I can no longer act at the level I hope. At my age, you start to lose memory, you start to lose confidence, you start to lose creativity. So I thought, I am already' It’s a closed book. I’ve been acting for 50 years, that’s enough.” This sad farewell speech broke the hearts of countless movie fans. They lamented, “We will never see those charming pairs again. Blue eyes flickered on the screen."
In the impetuous September of 2008, Paul Newman bid farewell to us again. This time, we really said goodbye to this "the most famous man with blue eyes in film history". French President Nicolas Sarkozy said with regret after Paul Newman’s departure: “We will never see Newman’s charming blue eyes again...” Cannes Film Festival Organizing Committee Chairman Gil Jacobs also sighed. Reminiscence: "Newman is so handsome and his eyes are so charming..." Some people are immortal because of his acting skills, and some people are immortal because of his achievements, and Paul Newman, the sexiest man on the screen ever, just relies on His eyes are enough to be immortal.
Paul Newman’s blue and pure eyes like the tropical ocean are his most impressive traits. He himself said in a joke that if one day he dies, his epitaph should read: "Here lies Paul. Newman, he died because his eyes turned brown." Although his performance teacher Lee Strassberg once said jokingly: "If Paul wasn't so handsome, he would have had a chance to become a man with Marlon Brando. A great actor." He himself once laughed at himself: "Actually, I have always been a character actor, but I just happen to look like Little Red Riding Hood." But the fans obviously don't think so, facing such a pair of blue eyes, even if they drown. If they die inside, they will not hesitate.
For such a pair of eyes, people who meet may say that a man with such eyes looks melancholy on the surface, but in fact, he is fanatical in his heart and is a typical passionate species. But Paul Newman has used a full 50 years of marriage to prove that he is a good, dedicated man. Even in the face of death’s inquiry, he can say frankly: "I don’t just live in time, I live in love. ."
There is a famous line in the American drama "Two and a half heroes": "Not everyone can have a happy family life like Paul Newman." In the eyes of picky Americans, Newman is the pronoun of happy family— —Especially in the sensual and materialistic Hollywood, it is even more rare for you to stay in love with each other.
Before falling in love with his second wife, Joanna Woodward, Paul Newman had a marriage-this may be the only place where he has only slight flaws in his romantic life. In 1949, Newman married his ex-wife Jackie Witt and had one son and two daughters. In 1953, Newman and Joanna Woodward fell in love at first sight when they filmed the Broadway drama "Picnic". In 1957, they collaborated in the movie "Long Heat" and laid the foundation for their relationship. However, due to the unsuccessful divorce of Newman, until January 26, 1958, the two were finally able to get married and held a grand wedding in Las Vegas. On January 26, 2008, the two spent their golden wedding anniversary. Woodward said happily: "Marrying Paul is to marry the most considerate and romantic man in the world." Newman's expression was even more straightforward: "Joanna is really a good woman, and there are not many women like her now."
Newman and Woodward are not only a loving couple, but also a golden partner, a beautiful and talented couple of actors. Joanna Woodward won the Oscar in 1957 with "The Three Faces of Eve". They are also one of the few Hollywood golden combination of husband and wife who have won the Oscar. Paul Newman has always refused to live in the Hollywood spotlight. In 1961, he moved his home to Connecticut, far away from Hollywood, and lived in a stone house built in 1760. Someone once asked him how to resist the sensual temptation of the entertainment industry. Newman jokingly replied: "If you have steak at home, why should you go outside to buy hamburgers?"
Paul Newman's 55-year acting career can be described as fruitful. Outstanding performances in films such as "The Iron Man", "Blood on the Bars", "The Prodigal Son", "No Malice" and "Road to Destruction" have won Oscar nominations ten times, and won the Oscar in 1986 with "The Color of Money" Actor. It's just that the man is dead. Compared with his love for his wife and family, compared with the love of his fans, these awards are only a faded foil in his life. His marriage to his wife Woodward is legendary in modern society-it lasted for 50 years, until death separated them...
Paul Newman feels like a brand new Marlboro cigarette, tall, clean, and with a charming fragrance. But there is always a moment when the cigarette is smoked, the ashes fall, and the end of life... Regarding his epitaph, Newman had two suggestions during his lifetime, one is "Here lies Paul Newman, and he died because his eyes turned brown." The second is that in addition to the engraved "Paul Newman-Oscar Actor", two more words-the driver should be added. Of course, it doesn’t matter what words are engraved on the tombstone. If I were to imagine what would happen when I passed Paul Newman’s tombstone a few years later, I would quote a poem by Haizi-
there is a kind of laughter in the dark night that laughs off the plank of my tomb.
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