After Sidney Pollack and Yves Saint Laurent, another legend of the arts leaves us this year.
My sharpest remembrance of Paul Newman is as Brick from Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, a movie that positively scared me off marriage, much like Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf. Yet, he leapt off the screen in the rarely mentioned Nobody's Fool and turned a Pixar character, Doc, into the stuff of animated legends. I loved his quiet countenance and low-key persona, the antithesis of The Phoney Celeb that litters the current popular culture scene.