Compare and contrast with Paul advertising a Mercedes or water ski
I bet no babies get named Paul this year... regular ol names like Paul aren't in fashion anymore.
Showing posts with label Paul Newman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Newman. Show all posts
Monday, January 05, 2026
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Monday, October 21, 2024
Paul Newman and Marion Andretti photographed driving the same Mickey Thompson Mini Dragster! Thank you Marc B!
https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/az18/lots/r129-1970-mickey-thompson-mini-dragster/
https://www.nhra.com/news/2020/mario-andretti-says-he-d-have-loved-try-top-fuel-well-we-have-photo#google_vignette
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/the-slowest-dragster-ever-built-by-mickey-thompson/
Friday, May 17, 2024
Do you remember the 1971 Paul Newman movie Once Upon A Wheel? A documentary on the history of auto racing
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413072
Paul Newman narrated this documentary that is clearly meant to explain why so many people enjoy racing.
The film is broken down into several categories including the men who race, the motors in the cars, those who watch and of course the wives of the men who drive. This documentary was originally shown on ABC and Newman not only promoted the film but also appeared on the cover of TV Guide.
Movie fans will be entertained since they get to see not only Newman but various other celebrities including Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Dick Smothers, Cesar Romero, James Garner, Glenn Ford, Hugh Downs and Chuck Connors.
The documentary really isn't going to teach anyone much as people are already going to know the majority of the stuff discussed here
It's important to know its goal then was to show America why they should be watching the sport.
Today I think it's mainly of interest to those wanting to see some famous actors of the 1960s and 70s outside their movie roles
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Saturday, May 27, 2023
RM Sothebys is auctioning off a lot of Paul Newman stuff, and wrote up an article that is fascinating - I learned a lot in it, like, his race car number was his age, and Nissan made a Skyline R30 Paul Newman Version, a variant sold only in Japan beginning in 1983.
Newman was 70, and the oldest winning racer, in 1995's 24 Hours at Daytona Rolex (making his lifelong business arrangement with Rolex even better)
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
in response to the post on Paul Newman's stuff, M. Currie wrote:
A bit of a ramble here, but long ago I was treasurer (and unofficial handyman) of a little nursery school called "The Children's School of Lime Rock." One of the fundraising efforts was a lemonade stand that volunteers ran at the race track where Newman fronted, if I recall, the Datsun team. After a few years, the track owners decided to cancel the agreement and started selling their own lemonade, but theirs was artificial, and not ours (which was real). Many drivers, prominent among them Newman, I'm told, boycotted the track lemonade, and demanded the return of the Children's School. And back we came.
We also had to move our quarters, and in attempting to refit the building to meet codes, I followed up on a lead, and ended up buying some stuff from a defunct local camp, run by a dance instructor named Joe de Jesus, who, it turned out, was an old friend of Newmans, having, among other things, coached him for his moves in The Towering Inferno. Some time later, after a huge hike in insurance premiums. the school ran into fatal financial trouble, and I wrote a letter to the Hole in the Wall fund, asking if we might get some help, at least to finish out the year. In addition to the lemonade link, I was able to throw in a greeting from Joe. They came through on that, and though we were not able to keep going, we were able to finish the year and pay the teachers. It was A.E. Hotchner rather than Newman who wrote the check, but hey, all the same as far as I'm concerned.
The tldr upshot: I'm a Newman fan.
(Lemonade stand fundraisers are an American time honored tradition, you might remember that a young girl had a lemonade stand at Bonneville. Hotchner was the co-founder of the charity food company Newman's Own. I had no idea there was a co-founder...)
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
100 pieces of Paul Newman items are coming to auction, one astonishing (to me) variety from trophys, posters, rings, helmets, and fireproof racing suits
this legends race car doesn't come with any guarantee that Paul ever drove it, it's description says that he acquired it to sponsor young drivers https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/pn23/high-speed--paul-newman-s-racing-legacy/lots/r0004-1997-legends-racing-car/1344464
https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/pn23
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Dan Blocker, and what I didn't know
’63 split-window Corvette lookin’ like a waggish hepcat. Paul Newman also drove Blocker’s ‘Vette on the track for a few years
He went to the Texas Military Institute, and in 1946 started his undergraduate graduating in 1950 with a degree in English
He fell in love with acting when he was recruited by a girlfriend to play a role in campus production of Arsenic and Old Lace as they needed a strong man to lift the bodies that the spinster aunts had dispatched up from the cellar. (I just posted about the taxis in that movie a week or so ago)
He appeared on Broadway in the 1950-51 production of King Lear. The draft soon ended his apprenticeship, and he served in the Army in the Korean War, making sergeant.
Even after being cast in “Bonanza”, he intended to complete his PhD, but the great success of the series made that impossible, due to the workload of 30+ episodes per year necessitating a 7AM-9PM work schedule five days a week.
Salary, royalties from Bonanza-related merchandise, and business ventures, and an eventual $1-million payout from NBC to buy out the residual rights of each of the three remaining stars made them all rich.
Dan Blocker started the Bonanza Steak House chain in 1963, he died at age 43 in 1972
Thursday, January 27, 2022
TIL that Paul Newman wanted to be a US Navy pilot, but was rejected because of his colorblindness. He served as an aviation radioman in the Pacific theater during WWII aboard USS Hollandia, he also served on the USS Bunker Hill
James E. Wise Jr. , author of “Stars in Blue, Movie Actors in the Sea Services” (1997), found the right hand group photo in the Photo Section Collection of the Naval Historical Center (NHC) in Washington DC.
It was the only photo from USS Hollandia (CVE-97) in the collection, and it had no caption. Jim sent a copy of the photo to Newman anyway with that note. Newman immediately called him back to tell him he was in the photo and remembered it being taken.
After Newman graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he joined the Navy's V-12 program at Yale University in the hopes of becoming a pilot. His hopes were dashed, however, when it was discovered that he was color blind.
Instead of completing the program, Newman was shipped to the Navy's boot camp at Newport, R.I. Graduating three days after Christmas, Newman was selected to train as an aviation radioman and reported to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Jacksonville, Fla., and Naval Air Station Miami where he qualified to be a rear-seat radioman and gunner for torpedo bombers.
In 1944, Aviation Radioman third class Newman was sent to Barber's Point where he operated in torpedo bomber squadrons designed to train replacement pilots.
He was subsequently assigned to Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons VT-98, VT-99, and VT-100, responsible primarily for training replacement combat pilots and aircrewmen, with special emphasis on carrier landings
One of Newman's later posts was aboard the USS Bunker Hill which fought in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. In a stroke of fate, his pilot developed an ear infection and they were held back from flying in the Okinawa campaign. Because of this, he and his pilot avoided the destruction of their ship, and the deaths of the sailors aboard.
After the Japanese surrender, he spent the last few months of his active duty service with Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 7 in Seattle, as part of a land-based support unit, and was discharged from the Navy in 1946.
Newman’s Own launched in 1982, with Paul declaring that 100% of the profits would go to charity. Today, the mission continues, and more than $570 million has been donated to thousands of organizations, helping millions of people around the world.
Thursday, December 23, 2021
Monday, July 05, 2021
I don't know why Paul Newman was getting his hair cut while on a motorbike, but I do know who was cutting his hair, and it's a hell of a story
The hair stylist is a guy by the name of Jay Sebring
He was at Sebring in '63 and hosted the Shelby victory party after the race, but didn't pay the bill, according to Rinsley Mills.
Unfortunately, a few years later in '69 Jay was with Sharon Tate at the house on Cielo in LA when the Mansion family decided to pay a visit. He was one of the casualties.Born in Alabama, raised in Detroit, and joined the Navy at 17, for four years during the Korean war, then returned to Detroit.
In Los Angeles, he graduated from beauty school and opened a shop on Fairfax Avenue, designing and building it for less than $500. Kummer cut hair for 13 hours a day, sleeping in the back, but was challenged by mounting costs.
He promptly "invented a whole new way of cutting men's hair". His innovations including shampooing men's hair before styling it, cutting their hair with scissors instead of clippers, and using blow dryers, which were popular in Europe but not well known in the United States. He used hairspray in an era when Brylcreem was the accepted hair product for men.
His breakthrough happened after meeting actress Barbara Luna at a party. She told Vic Damone, who liked him enough to fly him to Las Vegas for a trim. In turn, he introduced Kummer to Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra. Kummer would rename himself after the Sebring International Raceway, after seeing images of it in a magazine.
In Los Angeles, his modish salon and his style of cutting hair proved popular. He taught his methods to others who then opened Jay Sebring Salon franchises; his styling techniques were still being taught 40 years after his death. In 1967 he opened the company Sebring International to franchise his salons and sell hair care products.
At a time when barbers charged $1 to $2 for a haircut, Sebring charged $50 and more.[8] His hairstyling clients included Warren Beatty and Steve McQueen. He flew to Las Vegas every three weeks to cut the hair of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. At Kirk Douglas's request, Sebring did the hairstyling for the movie Spartacus. He later designed The Doors' Jim Morrison's free-flowing style.
His business, Sebring International, was flourishing by the late 1960s, with profitable salons in West Hollywood, New York City and London. Sebring maintained a playboy lifestyle, with high-profile Hollywood personalities like Beatty among his closest associates.
Sebring assisted with launching the film career of Bruce Lee, after meeting him at the International Karate Championships in Long Beach in 1964. He introduced Lee to his producer friend Bill Dozier, who started Lee's career with The Green Hornet.
Saturday, July 18, 2020
If you're looking for a cool movie, rent Road to Perdition. It has Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, and Stanley Tucci. All 1920s and 30s cars, gangsters, banks, and diners. And a twist ending I had forgotten about
Tom Hanks drives a 1930 or 31 Buick, Paul Newman's character is chauffeured in a Pierce Arrow.
Along the way, they have a couple scenes in roadside diners, 1920s palace architecture hotels, etc.
It's a bit of a dark movie, but the story is pretty good, the casting is phenomenal. The end is incredible. I haven't seen it since it was first released, in 2002, because it's a dark movie, and I rarely see those more than once. In this case, I was reminded a couple weeks ago, I can't recall why, it was probably due to the actors in it.
When you can find Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, and Stanley Tucci in one movie, it's not to be missed, especially whens it's flooded with original cars from 1925-1931
And I found a website that takes dozens of screen shots of a movie, https://film-grab.com/2011/01/16/road-to-perdition/#
Monday, May 11, 2020
Thursday, April 23, 2020
a movie with a 69 GTO, a 68 Mustang .... and Paul Newman driving both (if only for a moment each) , plus, added bonus, it's on Netflix. Where The Money Is
Old bank robber Henry, paralyzed from a stroke, is moved from a prison hospital to a retirement home, where Carol is a nurse. She doesn't believe he's paralyzed and sees him as a way out of her boring life.
An armored car heist, one small car chase, but watch it for a mild old Paul Newman movie that doesn't have Robert Redford. It was Newman's second-to-last live-action theatrical release, and a box office flop, so, you probably haven't seen it, and certainly won't remember it
It cost 28 million to make, it only took in about 6 million at the box office.
Linda Fiorentino and Dermot Mulroney co-star
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149367/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
http://mustang.is/index.php?option=com_jmovies&Itemid=65&task=detail&id=635&lang=en
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The Barber Museum is is auctioning these from their collection of celebrity motocross bikes, Bonhams at the Barber Museum next weekend Thanks Doug!
Steve McQueen Husqvarna used during the filming of On Any Sunday
Jim Pomeroy Pursang Bultaco
Peter Fonda Pursang Bultaco, ridden in Easy Rider
Dennis Hopper Husqvarna
Paul Newman movie ridden CZ 250
Steve McQueen owned Vincent
and this was a gift from the Honda Factory to the Jackson 5
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25100/#/aa0=2&MR0_length=100&w0=list&aj0=lot_number_asc&m0=0
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