Posted on 02/01/2019 10:07:09 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
Paul Newman was made to be a movie star.
Eyes as blue as wintry lakes. Wavy hair that slowly faded to heirloom silver. Boundless charisma and confident sex appeal.
But Paul Newman was more than a movie star. He was an artist. And maybe, since his death in 2008, he’s become a symbol—an avatar of genuine, non-toxic masculinity.
We sure could use one now.
We’re living in a movement moment, a #MeToo era when even razor-blade commercials wonder if men can’t be better. And lots of men are responding with not very manly tantrums: Better? What do you want from us anyway?
Well, let Paul Newman teach you.
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I am 63 and had the luck to grow up in the 1960's and you had a great group of movie stars to see. Just about all of them were Masculine and I guess by today's standards "Toxic". Whatever that means.
So we have this author now claiming that Paul Newman was not Toxic Masculinity. Lord what else was he, he just had all kind of Sex Appeal for men and women and he was Masculine also.
I suspect the author is a flaming liberal and since Newman was also he must be saved and excluded from the Toxic Masculinity label at all costs. Makes me wonder then about Steve McQueen, the King of Cool, just what was he then?
The last 50 years of so called Feminism has brought us to the point, men, all men are bad and worthless. Is it any wonder men now have second thoughts on dating and even marriage. When subject yourself to all the cultural BS when it's easier not to.
So I guess there will be a new look at old stars and some get a pass and others condemned. Revisionist Movie Stars or something like that.
I don't know what this author thinks he sees in Newman that prompts him to claim he isn't Masculine but he's wrong. Leave Paul, Steve, and others alone and let me have my memories.
Stop the madness!! There is NOTHING wrong with MASCULINITY!
Here’s what Reggie Dunlop would say to the author:
(Language Warning)
https://youtu.be/FRdIXmfm6PA?t=89
The author never saw The Hustler, apparently. Or Cool Hand Luke.
Hardly a Paul Newman type.
Watch McQueen when I can. Gorgeous gentleman. I'm 75...
I think it's at the level of "Orange Man Bad".
If you are a Liberal (like Newman) you may be all right. But if you have an "imperfect" political ideology, then you are a toxic male and we should throw stones at you.
I think it's just another way to fight the ideological war.
Paul Newman drank a lot of beer, was a race car driver and played both Hud and Cool Hand Luke. If he isn’t the definition of a real man, I don’t know who is. I sat next to him once at Bobbie Short’s midnight show at Cafe Carlyle and he was a real gentleman.
it seems the only ones throwing tantrums are those who lecture to us constantly about ‘toxic masculinity’- people were right to be upset over the gillette commercial because we see the constant incessant whining on the left about ‘toxic masculinity’ and their relentless push to sissify men-
The sissies on the left want everyone to be sissies i guess- those on the right aren’t having it- and that pisses off the left- so they do their ignorant gillette commercials, and try to sissify people like newman
The author of this steaming pile has apparently never seen Mr Newman’s self-proclaimed favorite movie, Slap Shot
I’m there with you. 68. We all remember exactly where we were when we heard President Kennedy was shot.
Newman for me was that older guy in those movies our older cousins and brother’s were watching. I was still in grade school, but movies like The Young Philadelphians and From The Terrace hit me hard.
I still watch these movies now and then.
Favorite Newman? Love watching The Verdict, but he made so many that were great to watch.
He got tiresome ONLY when we learned that he was a flaming liberal, not as bad as Ed Asner and Di Nero, but his politics spoiled it.
PS Captain Blood as in Errol Flynn?
“...They had a bio on Steve McQueen. His life was stunning. He joined the Marines. Was demoted to private 7 times....”
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You may be right.
Steve McQueen also became a born again Christian later in life- was pretty outspoken about it too
mankind can’t live without moral guidance.
As leftists deny and try to destroy natural law, normal gender roles and traditional christian ethics, it nonetheless must be replaced with “something.”
So, their answer is to create a Frankenstein morality. Approximating what was once normal, but twisted and bizarre nonetheless.
I don’t know about Paul Newman, but once-upon-a-time, good men didn’t act like boors because they were “gentlemen,” or they were faithful Christians who feared God’s judgement, or who took seriously responsibility to woman and family.
Well, we can’t use those terms any more - but not surprisingly, even post-modern, leftist, feminist ideologues still want men who are not boors.
So they create their twisted, parallel morality. Don’t be a boor because Christ or tradition demands it, rather, don’t be a boor because the state, our political ideology, or “toxicity” demands it.
Papillon is my favorite Steve McQueen movie.
I almost never miss that on when it is one. Newman was in his 50’s when he did that picture and guess what it was written by a woman.
Yes on the Captain Blood, Flynn was and still is one of favorites, talk about Toxic Masculinity.
I remember when men were men and everyone was glad they were.
People like John Wayne, a former college football player, Ronald Reagan, ditto. Robert Stack a former world champion shotgunner. Johnny Mack Brown, former MVP of the Rose Bowl.
Sean Connery a former boxer in the Navy. The list could go on and on. Even the ones who weren’t former athletes were still manly.
Now you need to be Gay, a weasel, or a brute.
My ideal was Victor MacLachlan who played in many old movies. Tough as leather but with a kind heart. MacLachlan once fought for the heavyweight championship of the world.
Steve McQueen died way too young. Only 50.
Paul Newman croaked a decade ago but I still have to look at his gargoyle grin in the salsa section.
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