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Redford Remembers Newman

Posted Sep 29, 08 3:00 PM CDT in Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – "Paul really likes to have fun and…he really especially loves to laugh at his own jokes, and some of them are just really awful," Robert Redford recalled of his friend Paul Newman to ABC News. "He enjoyed them so much…you'd start to laugh with him because you're so caught up in his enjoyment of them."

"For his 50th birthday, I happened…to find a trashed Porsche and it was just totally demolished and I had them wrap it up and leave it on his kitchen back step, wrapped in paper with a ribbon around it, that said "Happy 50th," Redford said with a smile. "He was a real friend and that humor that we had, I'll miss that. I'll miss him,"
Source: ABC News

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[We] both had a very strong feeling about putting something back if you were fortunate enough or successful enough that you should put something back if you could. And he certainly did that in spades. - Redford on Newman's philanthropy

...Knowing each other's flaws, we just played them to the hilt and we'd try to trick each other. We'd try to surprise each other, and it was so damn much fun that it became like—it became like a scenario unto itself. - Redford on Newman

This was a man who lived a life that really meant something and will for some time to come...It's very easy to lose your mind, your brains in this business, and he was a realist. He knew enough not to take himself too seriously. - Redford on Newman

Playing those characters and the fun of it that really began the relationship...we then discovered other similarities that just multiplied over time, a common ground that we both had between us, interests...and differences. - Redford on Butch Cassidy...

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