Last week I mentioned Judge Roy Bean and Lillie Langtry, the woman he idolized. The soldier told me he related to Bean’s personality (he was he hanging judge) and that his love for me is as enduring and all encompassing Roy’s love for Lillie whom he’d never met (Venus Neptune).

He thought we should see the movie so I got it so we had it on hand today… the day it’s star, Paul Newman died.

I have always liked Paul Newman but I have never in my life been as impressed with a philanthropist as I was the day Newman went on the Oprah show (about 10 years ago) and explained he’d be dying. Yep. He told Oprah he was getting old and asked her if she might take over his charities when he died. Now how cool is that?

It was one of the most heartening things I had ever seen in my life. Turns out some people not only know how to live well, they also know how to die (well) and seeing as this has been my ambition since I was 8 years old… well if he can do it, I can do it and that’s all I have to say.

What do you have to say about Paul Newman?