R.I.P Paul Newman
I always liked him as an actor. I appreciated him as an activist. He was anactivist without being all in-your-face Bono about it. He was an actor who did it for the love of the craft not the love of the fame. But what I loved the most was that he was married to his wife for 50 years.
50 YEARS.
A quote from one of the many obituaries online:
"Mr. Newman's long marriage to Joanne Woodward seemed a model of both mutual devotion and decorum. The couple lived in Connecticut, well removed from the Hollywood hurly-burly. In an oft-quoted remark on the pleasures of fidelity he once asked, "Why fool around with hamburger when you can have steak at home?""
I know a lot of actors, famous and non, who want to emulate him on screen - mold their career after his - but I kinda wish more actors (and people in Hollywood in general) wanted to be like him off screen.
Oh and I loved his black bean salsa too.