Paul Newman Remembered

By Joe Morgenstern:

Paul Newman gave growing old a good name, after staying young for so long that he had started to seem immortal. He was a serious actor, as well as one of Hollywood's last superstars -- he gave hard work a good name too -- but what defined him, old or young, was his smile. Sometimes it was a jaunty kid's smile on the preposterously handsome face of a grown man; sometimes a genial version of a wise-guy smile, tinctured with traces of self-irony to let us know he didn't think he was wise at all. Most times he smiled as if the sun had just come out and he was basking in it.

TCM will be having a Paul Newman marathon next weekend. It oughtta be a great lineup.