Newman Calls it Quits
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Paul and Joan Woodward celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2008, the same year he passed away. They both seemed to share a very loving relationship the entire time. You never read about Paul in the smut magazines.
Some people go an entire lifetime without experiencing true love. These two led such a happy life together.
Some people go an entire lifetime without experiencing true love. These two led such a happy life together.
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He was great in everything ,but really likedhim in nobodys fool. great movie.
Where would Newman and Pool be if Jack Lemon have gotten the role?
http://www.freewebs.com/jacklemmon/trivia.htm
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Full Name: John Uhler Lemmon III
Nickname: Uhler (often by Billy Wilder!)
Profession: Film and theatre actor, director and producer
Date of Birth: 8 February 1925
Starsign: Aquarius
Height: 5"9 (1.75m)
Nationality: American
Hair colour: Black, later grey
Eye colour: Light brown
Hobbies: Gardening, playing golf, playing pool or snooker, playing the piano
Some of the films Jack was rumoured to turn down
Joseph and His Brethren (1954)
Bus Stop (1956)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
The Hustler (1961)*
Promises! Promises! (1963)*
Kiss Me Stupid (1964)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)*
Boeing (707) Boeing (707)*
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? (1966)*
Cool Hand Luke (1968)*
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)*
Footnote: Some of these were only rumoured to have been offered to Jack.
* = Jack himself turned down
http://www.freewebs.com/jacklemmon/apps/blog/show/7856672
Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk had many things in common but three of the things that immediately spring to mind are that they are two of the greatest actors who ever lived, they are both naturally funny when it comes to comedy and they also share a love of playing pool.
In The Great Race, they were the perfect match to play the evil villain-and-henchman respectively and they very much enjoyed that set-up for the movie. Behind the scenes of his many movie sets, Jack loved to play pool and snooker. Be it competing against another BFF in the form of Tony Curtis or teaching Kim Novak a trick or two using the cue, if he wasn't playing the piano, Jack was probably playing pool during breaks in rehearsals and filming. Peter famously had a glass right eye after he nearly lost his life from cancer found there at a very young age. But the glass eye proved not to be a nuisance when it came to Peter's skill of the game. He was very good at pool indeed. And so was Jack. There was often intense matches whenever they could play properly against each other but Peter's winning streak could perhaps be somewhat reflected in Jack's portrayal of Professor Fate whenever he gets angry at Max in The Great Race!
RIP Newman!!
http://www.freewebs.com/jacklemmon/trivia.htm
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Full Name: John Uhler Lemmon III
Nickname: Uhler (often by Billy Wilder!)
Profession: Film and theatre actor, director and producer
Date of Birth: 8 February 1925
Starsign: Aquarius
Height: 5"9 (1.75m)
Nationality: American
Hair colour: Black, later grey
Eye colour: Light brown
Hobbies: Gardening, playing golf, playing pool or snooker, playing the piano
Some of the films Jack was rumoured to turn down
Joseph and His Brethren (1954)
Bus Stop (1956)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
The Hustler (1961)*
Promises! Promises! (1963)*
Kiss Me Stupid (1964)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)*
Boeing (707) Boeing (707)*
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? (1966)*
Cool Hand Luke (1968)*
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)*
Footnote: Some of these were only rumoured to have been offered to Jack.
* = Jack himself turned down
http://www.freewebs.com/jacklemmon/apps/blog/show/7856672
Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk had many things in common but three of the things that immediately spring to mind are that they are two of the greatest actors who ever lived, they are both naturally funny when it comes to comedy and they also share a love of playing pool.
In The Great Race, they were the perfect match to play the evil villain-and-henchman respectively and they very much enjoyed that set-up for the movie. Behind the scenes of his many movie sets, Jack loved to play pool and snooker. Be it competing against another BFF in the form of Tony Curtis or teaching Kim Novak a trick or two using the cue, if he wasn't playing the piano, Jack was probably playing pool during breaks in rehearsals and filming. Peter famously had a glass right eye after he nearly lost his life from cancer found there at a very young age. But the glass eye proved not to be a nuisance when it came to Peter's skill of the game. He was very good at pool indeed. And so was Jack. There was often intense matches whenever they could play properly against each other but Peter's winning streak could perhaps be somewhat reflected in Jack's portrayal of Professor Fate whenever he gets angry at Max in The Great Race!
RIP Newman!!
Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk liked to play pool. They were only fair players (I saw them play in Hollywood). Fred Astaire was a real pool player, capable of running several racks at 14.1. The best celebrity players of that era were Leo Durocher (a damn good hustler as a young man. he gave it up for baseball - what a dummy!) and Walter Alston the former Dodger manager (he had runs over 100 in Straight Pool). It's close between Astaire and Alston, they both could play. W.C. Fields was also supposed to be an adept player. A little before my time though. :smile:
Paul Sorvino has to be the best of the modern day celebs. I doubt he could beat Mark Kendall (from the group Great White) at 9-Ball though. Mark is a run out player, I've seen him in action.
Paul Sorvino has to be the best of the modern day celebs. I doubt he could beat Mark Kendall (from the group Great White) at 9-Ball though. Mark is a run out player, I've seen him in action.
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Jay.. There are few stars and musicians that play Pool.
Point I was making...Some of the films Jack Lemon was rumoured to turn down.... one was the The Hustler (1961)* !!
Point I was making...Some of the films Jack Lemon was rumoured to turn down.... one was the The Hustler (1961)* !!
Agreed on all counts! I think Jack Lemmon was a brilliant actor, able to play any role. I'd have loved to see him play Fast Eddie. I can just see him as a hustler.
No way is Sorvino anywhere near the best among modern celebs! I've played him before and seen him play many times...he's just a slight notch above a banger. Unless he's gotten much better in the last 5 years, which I doubt at his age.
Among modern day celebs the best is probably either Joe Rogan or the actor Michael Vartan (Hawthorne, Alias), Vartan ran 62 balls at Amsterdam Billiards once and his 9 ball is probably B+ speed at least. I once gambled with him back when he was unknown and I was up 8-6 and he ran 3 racks and out like it was nothing.
Full Name: John Uhler Lemmon III
Nickname: Uhler (often by Billy Wilder!)
Profession: Film and theatre actor, director and producer
In 1981 I get a call to go to MGM. Everything was hush hush. I get taken to a small sound room and in there is Billy Wilder sitting with his partner IAL Diamond. Billy says to me in a thick German accent. "Mr Young, I hear you are from HAWAII!". "Yes, I gulped, Im local from Hawaii.". He says, "Well Mr Young we have a problem. We shot a scene in Hawaii and we cant understand what this guy is saying. You are going to have to rerecord him!".
This local guys is speaking with a thick accent and I have to go in and clean it up. Its just one sentence. But Im so nervous I keep stuttering. I was young at the time. He says to me "Mr Young dont try to act. Just shoot it out!". It was the best acting lesson I had in my life. Now I dont act. I just "shoot it out". The film was Buddy, Buddy with Lemmon and Matthau
I walk out of the room and the contact person hands me a check for 1K. Not bad for an hours work and a meeting with a great man.
Oh worked with Paul Sorvino on the Oldest Rookie. He was a fun New Yorker who loved Amsterdam Billiards. But I think his buddy Jerry Orbach from Law and Order was a much better player. I had dinner with Jerry once after a performance of Chicago, Chicago which he starred in. But thats another story.
Nickname: Uhler (often by Billy Wilder!)
Profession: Film and theatre actor, director and producer
In 1981 I get a call to go to MGM. Everything was hush hush. I get taken to a small sound room and in there is Billy Wilder sitting with his partner IAL Diamond. Billy says to me in a thick German accent. "Mr Young, I hear you are from HAWAII!". "Yes, I gulped, Im local from Hawaii.". He says, "Well Mr Young we have a problem. We shot a scene in Hawaii and we cant understand what this guy is saying. You are going to have to rerecord him!".
This local guys is speaking with a thick accent and I have to go in and clean it up. Its just one sentence. But Im so nervous I keep stuttering. I was young at the time. He says to me "Mr Young dont try to act. Just shoot it out!". It was the best acting lesson I had in my life. Now I dont act. I just "shoot it out". The film was Buddy, Buddy with Lemmon and Matthau
I walk out of the room and the contact person hands me a check for 1K. Not bad for an hours work and a meeting with a great man.
Oh worked with Paul Sorvino on the Oldest Rookie. He was a fun New Yorker who loved Amsterdam Billiards. But I think his buddy Jerry Orbach from Law and Order was a much better player. I had dinner with Jerry once after a performance of Chicago, Chicago which he starred in. But thats another story.
Please share! :smile:
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck can both play and are above ball-banger speed, IMO. Would love to see Matt Damon do for pool what "Rounders" did with poker.
Then I stand corrected. I had heard that Sorvino was a forty ball runner. If Vartan plays that good, then he is better than my man Joe. I'd like to see him up against Mark Kendall, who is also a B+ player.
Wow! Jack Lemmon has a good stance when addressing the ball.
Cool pictures. Thanks so much for sharing! :smile:
That a good question.
The 2 movies and when JL star with Kim Novak, below would make you think that
Billy Wilder demonstrates a "behind-the-back" pool shot to Jack Lemmon between takes on the set of Irma La Douce
In The Great Race, Behind the scenes of his many movie sets, Jack loved to play pool and snooker. Be it competing against another BFF in the form of Tony Curtis or teaching Kim Novak a trick or two using the cue, if he wasn't playing the piano, Jack was probably playing pool during breaks in rehearsals and filming
Jam .. Didn't mean to Highjack your Newman Thread.
I wonder if Steve McQueen or James Garner were consider for the role, in Hustler?