Re: No More Masturbating With Newman's Own Salad Dressing

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I bet we don't hear.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 1:48 PM
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I'm basing this on the fact that a while back, I saw a profile of him that was already doing the same hand wringing.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 1:51 PM
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I bet you didn't see.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 1:53 PM
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This, though, is cute:

One version of the story has the kid look from the picture of Newman on the Newman's Own lemonade carton to Newman himself, then back to the carton and back to Newman again before asking, "Are you lost?"

Dahlia Lithwick.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 1:55 PM
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I stopped watching television in the late 60's, so many of the movies that are important to my generation I saw in the nineties, like Cool Hand Luke>/i> and BCaSDK.

So it is the 50s and early 60s work that flooded tv in the early to mid 60s that I remember.

Left Handed Gun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Exodus, Hud, Hustler several others

And The Long Hot Summer with Woodward, quite possibly the hottest movie ever filmed

He & Woodward made their 50th in January.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:03 PM
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Wait, what?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:09 PM
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THLS, in the scene in the dry-goods store, you imagine Joanne snarling:

"Cut, Martin, just cut right now. You better cut or you're gonna get stuff on film even you or Paul have never seen before."


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:12 PM
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Toast him with Costco grape juice -- No man can beat 50 eggs -- what we have here is a failure to resuscitate.


Posted by: Econolicious | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:24 PM
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One version of the story has the kid look from the picture of Newman on the Newman's Own lemonade carton to Newman himself, then back to the carton and back to Newman again before asking, "Are you lost?"

I don't think the period of time during which lost people were on milk cartons overlapped with the period of time during which Paul Newman was best known for his line of foodstuffs. The two halves of the apocryphal story reject each other!


Posted by: CN | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:31 PM
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I think the only things I've seen him in may be The Sting and Cool Hand Luke, come to think of it.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:31 PM
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If that was my legacy, I'd take it.

There's a story about Thomas Dolby ("She Blinded Me With Science") that I like. Someone called him a one-hit wonder, and he said, "How many hits do you have?

Also: w-lfs-n is going to be quite cross with you for your failure to use the subjunctive here.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:32 PM
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re: 10

Not the Hustler? Colo[ur] of Money? Road to Perdition? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Somebody Up There Likes Me? Towering Inferno? The Verdict?

I don't know about the US, but most of these films get repeated on TV a lot.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:35 PM
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I'm disappointed that the "No more masturbating to" meme has not spread beyond Unfogged in the 18 months since its creation. oh well.


Posted by: CN | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:35 PM
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You know you want to watch it again, for old time's sake.

Nobody can eat 50 eggs.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:35 PM
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Neither the Colour, nor the Colo, of money.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:36 PM
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Go watch Butch and Sundance. It's rather good.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:41 PM
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10:Aw, jeez, Ben. So go rent Hud & Hustler. They didn't make'em any better than that at that time. And they have weathered well.

Absence of Malice, The Verdict, and Twilight are good later movies.

Slap Shot has a cult following


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:42 PM
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I think the only things I've seen him in may be The Sting and Cool Hand Luke, come to think of it.

Aw, man, no The Hustler or Butch and Sundance? Not even Slap Shot or The Hudsucker Proxy? I don't think Hud has aged as well as his best work, but he's -really good- in it, and it's beautifully shot (James Wong Howe's last Oscar, IIRC).

I thought this profile, written after it had started to leak out that he was dying of lung cancer, was a little too New Journalism-y but still a remarkable portrait.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:44 PM
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Butch Cassidy is ok for what it is, but it ain't all that much. Newman did make a lot of dreck.

I can think of a half dozen better young Redford movies, like Downhill Racer


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:46 PM
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Look, I'm not saying that those are the only things I'm interested in seeing him in.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:49 PM
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Butch Cassidy is ok for what it is, but it ain't all that much.

You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:57 PM
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I thought this profile, written after it had started to leak out that he was dying of lung cancer, was a little too New Journalism-y but still a remarkable portrait.

Just started reading this. The style is kind of intolerable.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 2:59 PM
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The style is kind of intolerable.

Yeah. I read it on a plane and my memory of it was less purple. Get thee behind me, Tom Wolfe!


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:01 PM
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Just started reading this. The style is kind of intolerable.

Yes. Woof.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:03 PM
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I loved The Sting when I was a kid. Great stuff.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:05 PM
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Just started reading this. The style is kind of intolerable.

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Posted by: CN | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:08 PM
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We saw The Sting in AP Latin, after the AP test, along with The Godfather pts 1 and 2, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall, and several other films which I can't remember.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:13 PM
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Had they been dubbed into Latin?


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:14 PM
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No.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:15 PM
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Million Dollar Baby was only three or four years ago.


Posted by: asl | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:21 PM
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Indeed.


Posted by: CN | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:22 PM
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22:#147 of the top 250 at IMDB?

The American Jules et Jim.

So much for America


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:23 PM
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I'm disappointed that the "No more masturbating to" meme has not spread beyond Unfogged in the 18 months since its creation. oh well.

Unfogged is neither a leader nor follower. Just a special little thing.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:26 PM
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Similarly, Bob, The Shawshank Redemption is the best movie of all time and Schindler's List the seventh best. (I'll certainly second your endorsement of The Hustler and Hud, though.)


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:30 PM
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28: I came thisclose to showing Sebastiane in a Latin class.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:34 PM
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I see that one of the plot keywords is "shirtless male bondage".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:36 PM
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Similarly, Bob, The Shawshank Redemption is the best movie of all time and Schindler's List the seventh best. (I'll certainly second your endorsement of The Hustler and Hud, though.)

With elitism like that it's no wonder you prefer Obama to both Hillary and McCain.


Posted by: CN | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:42 PM
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36: But it's in Latin!


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:46 PM
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BR just read the title and said "oh that would feel tangy!"


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:48 PM
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36 isn't about Cool Hand Luke?


Posted by: CN | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:51 PM
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I'm disappointed that the "No more masturbating to" meme has not spread beyond Unfogged in the 18 months since its creation. oh well.

I'm occasionally tempted to use it elsewhere, but then I think: I'll be outing myself as an Unfogged reader! What will people think?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:51 PM
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40: Without question, Mr Newman's finest shirtless role (and by this I mean the role in which oudemia thinks he looks most fine) is in Sweet Bird of Youth.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 3:57 PM
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I think one of Newman's best later roles was as Sully in Russo's Nobody's Fool. Nice understated acting in a fun, little understated movie. Bruce Willis was not bad in it either.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 4:02 PM
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41: Our sophisticated humor and unique good taste are unmatched elsewhere.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 4:04 PM
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44: Someone specifically *chose* to keep the initial report on this site classy.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 4:11 PM
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44: Yeah, I had a qualm about using house style to announce his death on the other thread, but it passed.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 4:25 PM
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45, I meant.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 4:26 PM
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To nitpick, the salad dressing is part of his philanthropic work, so it's just his acting the young whippersnappers will overlook. Or maybe not. The beauty of DVDs and 900 cable channels is that the kids today have more opportunities to see old movies than we did. Mostly all I had was The 4:30 Movie (channel 5 in NY-NJ in the '70s). They sometimes had theme weeks; the ones I remember most are Gidget, Elvis, and Vincent Price. Not exactly George Cukor, but I got there eventually.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 4:50 PM
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Actually, I rather liked The Hudsucker Proxy.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 4:59 PM
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Actually, I associate Newman in his food-related incarnation with tomato sauce, that is, red pasta sauce, not salad dressing.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:05 PM
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I like the Limeade best.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:12 PM
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The chocolate chip cookies are excellent.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:18 PM
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I really like Newman's organic ginger cookies.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:20 PM
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Heaven help those poor bozos, who try to filch my Newman-O's!


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:21 PM
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Well, for god's sake, then, has anyone determined whether these products will continue to be available? Did Newman hand the company over to the Sundance Kid? Will we now have to shop for them just at Trader Joe's (which I somehow associate with the fringy suede jackets and silver jewelry the Kid seems to have become fond of -- you know, the southwest theme)?

Worrisome thoughts.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:38 PM
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Why wouldn't they? It's not as if he handmade them.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:39 PM
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It's not as if he handmade them.

I beg your pardon. It's "Newman's Own."


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:42 PM
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48:Checking...no, not yet.

Turner Movie Classics seems to have a policy of dropping regular programming and doing a marathon in these instances, so those with cable might keep an eye out.

But SFC has Dina Meyer vs "a deadly Sphinx unleashed from ancient tunnels", so I'm glad it isn't tonight. I don't suppose there will be a riddle.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 5:58 PM
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33 i think ToS is doing great, now if only he'd start writing ToS in the posted bys


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 6:02 PM
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41: Perhaps the reason the local idiom 'no more' hasn't taken spread is that the mainstream is obsessed with necrobukkake.



Posted by: Econolicious, eating Milagro Beanfield autumn salad | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 7:21 PM
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not the Newman's Own's, but i was glad to find some ginger cookies on the upper shelf of the kitchen drawer, a rice cooking night tonight


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 7:29 PM
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I heard that the Newman's Own organic line is a separate, for-profit enterprise.


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 8:48 PM
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Newman's Own is a for-profit enterprise, but Paul Newman donated all of the proceeds, after tax, to charity. I believe his daughter is likely to take over his role in the company.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 8:52 PM
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the limeade is great.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 8:57 PM
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Paul Newman made salad dressing? What?


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 09-27-08 11:04 PM
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59: 33 is not ToS.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-28-08 12:15 AM
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6: Paul Newman died, B.

He was great in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Among many other films, of course.


Posted by: Brock Landers | Link to this comment | 09-28-08 3:31 PM
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Cool Hand Luke. A better film than Citizen Kane.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 09-28-08 5:07 PM
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I can only assume that someone will be along to tell DS to get his mind right shortly.

I haven't seen CK, so it won't be me.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-28-08 5:10 PM
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Ben is the very face of conventional movie snobbery.

I thought Newman was really good with Elizabeth Taylor in "Ben Hur".


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-28-08 5:19 PM
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