Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Good Morning, World


Listen -- if I stumble upon a picture of Paul Newman shirtless that I have somehow never seen before, I am going to post said photo, reasons be damned. Given all we have posted of perhaps the most beautiful man to ever grace the silver screen over the decades, finding a nugget of anything of this sort is a small miracle. And yet even as I started this post thinking I was being random, I realized I am not -- the Fates aligned! Because Newman's perhaps greatest performance in Hud has just been released onto the Criterion Collection in 4K this very day! Kismet! Paul putting the kiss in kismet. As in somebody build me a time machine so I can go make out with Paul Newman kinda "kiss." Anyway -- Hud! Helluva pitchuh.


7 comments:

joel65913 said...

That is a great pic of Paul and one which I am also unfamiliar.

While I have a soft spot for the 1963 Hitchcockian lighthearted thriller "The Prize" as my favorite among his films, Hud is a great film full of tremendous work by all four major players.

Anonymous said...

My copy arrived yesterday and I watched it immediately! Love this movie 🔥

Anonymous said...


Looks a little like Keith Haring. With the impossibly good-looking part added. Love the bracelet.

Anonymous said...

"...perhaps the most beautiful man to ever grace the silver screen over the decades..." Have you heard of Montgomery Clift? (OK, you said "perhaps.")

Jason Adams said...

Yes the perhaps is doing a lot of heavy lifting! Depending on my mood I could come up with a dozen candidates that would be indisputable to some, very much with Clift right there at the top vying for it

Anonymous said...

For your consideration: Massimo Girotti (have you ever seen Visconti’s „Ossessione“?)

Jason Adams said...

Massimo has his very own tag here on the site! He's glorious