Look, no one's arguing with a young Paul Newman. And #21 is going to make any musical-lover's heart go pitter-pat. But we've got some important additions to Life's list of the Sexiest Men of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
perseverate \per-SEV-uh-reyt\, intransitive verb: To involuntarily repeat a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder. To repeat something insistently or redundantly. Perseverate is a back formation of perseveration from Middle French perseveration from Old French and classical Latin...
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Cars, like penguins, have the capacity for both goodness and evil. Do cars have souls? Doubtful, unless they are voiced by Paul Newman. But Saturday I witnessed the extremes of car behavior, and it all happened within a matter of two minutes. I was on my bike, as is usually the case around these parts. Waiting at an intersection I should have been allowed to cross right away, as there was a crosswalk....
Suddenly Last Summer Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, an artist-directed theatre company now in its 6th Season, has announced staged reading performances of Tennessee Williams rarely performed A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Crève Cœur is derived from French for “broken … see more. See also: montgomery clift | orson welles | paul newman | joanne [...]
After performing much charity during his life, Paul Newman’s friends are throwing a fundraiser in his namesake. This posthumous charitable event will be going towards helping a children’s camp for kids with life-threatening illnesses. Newman was well known for his charity work, even much of the proceeds from his “Newman’s Own” brand foods went towards good [...] This post...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Paul Newman's career was so prolific that any collection of his movies would naturally be incomplete. But "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection" has some big omissions and who-cares inclusions that prevent it from being a masterpiece....
Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume; 15 February 1931) : Bloom was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales. Her paternal grandparents, originally named Blumenthal, as well as her maternal grandparents, originally named Griewski, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. ... She was chosen by Charlie Chaplin...
The Giving Back Fund’s third annual Giving Back 30, a list of celebrities who have made the largest donations to charity according to public records, was released in the November 1st issue of Parade magazine. Paul Newman replaced Oprah Winfrey as the most generous celebrity of 2008. Oprah had occupied the number one spot by a [...]
Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) : She first appeared in the 1959 motion picture The Diary of Anne Frank . In the same year, she starred in Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason and in The Best of Everything with Hope Lange and Joan Crawford . ... Baker appeared in 300 Spartans (1962) and Stolen Hours , a 1963 remake of Dark Victory , and, the same year, opposite Paul Newman...
Kid, the next time I say, ‘Let’s go someplace like Bolivia,’ let’s GO someplace like Bolivia.” - Paul Newman, in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid While we know them best as Butch and Sundance, their original names were Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh. There’s a fairly good record of their lives, which [...]
Disney-Pixar's "Cars" is now available in a fully loaded special edition Blu-ray Hi-Def. The 2006 film was released on November 10 in a whole new format with the "Cars" Blu-ray Combo Pack Gift Set. The set includes a Blu-ray copy of the movie with special bonus features, in addition to limited edition die-cast toy cars. In a world filled with the titular automobiles, the story...
Last week my bout of bronchitis coincided with my Phoenix Coyotes losing 3 out of 4 games, Mikkel Boedker being sent down AGAIN, Zybnek Michalek and Ed Jovanovski are out with “lower body” injuries (seriously can we just say “groin” we are all adults here) and the Anaheim game was radio only..I hate listening to [...]
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