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Article: FILM : Hey, show an old guy some respect
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 23, 1995
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"Did you always look like that?" a little boy asks Paul Newman
in Nobody's Fool. "Pretty much," he admits. From the moment Newman
makes his entrance in Robert Benton's gentle film, ducking through
a door in the manner of a star, it's obvious that his 70 years
aren't going to be a problem. Looking like he did at 60, acting
roguish and resilient, Newman is strangely unchanged. By his own
standards, it's an unremarkable performance, making his Oscar
nomination and recent Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival seem
odd. By all of Hollywood's usual logic, it's surely time for him to
shuffle off to the sidelines. He has, after all, already had two
awards from the Academy for still being alive ...