Paul Newman
I recently went on a trip with my fabulous mother, the point of which was attending a festival in honor of her favorite playwright. Part of this was the showing of a movie based on one of his plays starring the great Paul Newman. The screen, of course, was huge and I watched Paul's extremely blue eyes flit with emotion, dramatic and vulnerable at times, all while remaining rugged and statuesque, with a jaw line that could cut a pizza and eyes that will maybe any woman a puddle on the floor...and have I mentioned that smile?
I digress. My thoughts drifted to other roles I had seen Mr. Newman in, and it posed this question: Why don't they make men like Paul Newman anymore?
I know he's an actor that plays parts, but like any good artist, there's a little of himself in all his characters, whether good or bad. He delivered his lines almost like a poet, and with such ease. He was not only handsome, but talented with an ere of sophistication and charm coupled with a bright smile, wit, and always on-point sense of humor.
All too often I see men desperately trying to pull off what Paul Newman and many others like him (Robert Redford, Elvis Presley, even as recently as Johnny Depp) portray with such ease. Not just on screen, but the aroma of class clouds around them no matter what someone might see them doing, even smoking. Men nowadays mistakenly think they are doing the same thing by being narcissistic and having a few good lines in their pockets. Sorry to break it to you, guys. You can try as hard as you want, but the things that make all the girls swoon over these classic hearthrobs is not something to be learned.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore all my goofball guy friends, with only one of them coming anywhere close to these men. I love the men I have been blessed to call my friends, most of them being good 'ol farm boys (and I wouldn't have it any other way), but class is not something they have all been marinated in.
The men I am talking about are the classic, majestic men that more of the male population should strive to be like. Men that were who they were, and stated their feelings without playing games (no matter in how dramatically a fashion). Women do not want to be pulled in circles, thinking they have found their leading man only to find he's more like the nephew of the director that wants to be a big-time actor, so they let him be in the background and say two lines. Men and women both need to stop settling for the B-movies where all the lines are bad and the plot is all over the place.
Where are the Paul Newmans, the Elizabeth Taylors? The Marilyn Monroes and the John Waynes? Sometimes I worry I might have been born in the wrong era.
I digress. My thoughts drifted to other roles I had seen Mr. Newman in, and it posed this question: Why don't they make men like Paul Newman anymore?
I know he's an actor that plays parts, but like any good artist, there's a little of himself in all his characters, whether good or bad. He delivered his lines almost like a poet, and with such ease. He was not only handsome, but talented with an ere of sophistication and charm coupled with a bright smile, wit, and always on-point sense of humor.
All too often I see men desperately trying to pull off what Paul Newman and many others like him (Robert Redford, Elvis Presley, even as recently as Johnny Depp) portray with such ease. Not just on screen, but the aroma of class clouds around them no matter what someone might see them doing, even smoking. Men nowadays mistakenly think they are doing the same thing by being narcissistic and having a few good lines in their pockets. Sorry to break it to you, guys. You can try as hard as you want, but the things that make all the girls swoon over these classic hearthrobs is not something to be learned.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore all my goofball guy friends, with only one of them coming anywhere close to these men. I love the men I have been blessed to call my friends, most of them being good 'ol farm boys (and I wouldn't have it any other way), but class is not something they have all been marinated in.
The men I am talking about are the classic, majestic men that more of the male population should strive to be like. Men that were who they were, and stated their feelings without playing games (no matter in how dramatically a fashion). Women do not want to be pulled in circles, thinking they have found their leading man only to find he's more like the nephew of the director that wants to be a big-time actor, so they let him be in the background and say two lines. Men and women both need to stop settling for the B-movies where all the lines are bad and the plot is all over the place.
Where are the Paul Newmans, the Elizabeth Taylors? The Marilyn Monroes and the John Waynes? Sometimes I worry I might have been born in the wrong era.