<p>“Actually, we all look pretty pathetic compared to him.”</p>
<p>Speak for yourself, Mythmom.</p>
<p>Okay. Sorry if you were offended.</p>
<p>Good bye Cool-Hand Luke. You were great!</p>
<p>I’ve been away for the weekend … and my hotel TV didn’t work. Got on the plane to come home and the ticker across the bottom of the live tv made me think something like that had happened, but I didn’t see his name. Just comments by Redford along the lines of great guy and a good actor too.</p>
<p>He will be missed.</p>
<p>I appreciate so much that he declined the invasions of privacy about his marriage and relationship…saying the questions made him uncomfortable (reruns on CNN of Larry King and Heather Mills interviews with him). He really is a role model for all celebrities.</p>
<p>This is a very tough death for many . . . my parents are inconsolable. He really represented their generation for them . . . his politics, his sense of what was “cool” and what was not, his commitment to his long, long marriage. All those things . . . and of course the iconic blue eyes. So very sad.</p>
<p>Joanne was indeed a lucky woman - always loved Paul’s quote in Playboy of “why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home?”</p>
<p>We loved the movie “Nobody’s Fool” - it was set in a town in Upstate New York called North Bath, the actual Bath New York is a short drive south of us, I was bummed when we found out they were filming in Poughkeepsie instead…</p>
<p>And of course my hockey playing D loves “Slap Shot”…</p>
<p>“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”</p>
<p>Cool Hand Luke was one of the first movies my parents ever took us to see, at the local drive-in. And Dad loved “Hud.”</p>
<p>At age 70 he was on the winning team at the 24 Hours of Daytona. The perfect cap on a life well lived.</p>