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Actor, race car driver, and food pioneer Paul Newman died Friday at his home in Connecticut. He was 83. Newman starred in such classic movies as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, and The Hustler, but it was his role as Luke Jackson in Cool Hand Luke that cemented his legacy for me. Newman’s Luke is a pop culture icon, standing as the acme of stoicism, the ne plus ultra of manhood, and the epitome of cool.
Here he is singing “Plastic Jesus” in Cool Hand Luke, after learning of his mother’s death:
And here he is as Fast Eddie Felson, looking for Minnesota Fats in The Hustler:
