While I try to get back in the groove of things, let me share with you a wonderful piece of writing that I came across earlier this morning by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate. Actor and philanthropist Paul Newman may have passed away, but his quiet service for humanity lives on in his Hole in the Wall Gang Camp:Hollywood legend holds that Paul Newman is and will always be larger-than-life, and it's true. Nominated for 10 Oscars, he won one. He was Fast Eddie, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy. And then there were Those Eyes. But anyone who ever met Paul Newman will probably tell you that he was, in life, a pretty regular-sized guy: A guy with five beautiful daughters and a wonder of a wife, and a rambling country house in Connecticut where he screened movies out in the barn. He was a guy who went out of his way to ensure that everyone else—the thousands of campers, counselors, and volunteers at his camps, the friends he involved in his charities, and the millions of Americans who bought his popcorn—could feel like they were the real star.
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Picture comes courtesy of Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
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