RIP: Paul Newman

I am weeping real tears right now. This is devastating news.

The sequence in this video is my favorite in “The Hustler”. It is the heart of this great film, and one of my favorite sequences in any movie ever made. What an amazing performance Paul gives here, along with George C. Scott and Jackie Gleason.

Paul Newman was a close friend and colleague of my mother, and I first met him at the age of ten when she brought me to work with her one night on the set of “The Hustler”. He and Joanne would have dinner at our New York City apartment regularly. And early in my career as a sound re-recording mixer I had the privilege of working with Paul on two of the films that he directed, “Harry & Son” and “The Glass Menagerie”, and also the sequel to “The Hustler”, Marty Scorsese’s “The Color Of Money”.

Paul was an intelligent and articulate progressive. He had an amazing sense of humor and was a real professional, and a real gentleman. I will always value the time I had to spend with him. The work he did as an actor and a director, as well as what he did with his humanitarian food company, will live on for generations.

Rest in peace, Fast Eddie.