spectacled birthday
In key movies in his career (though unmentioned here) is Hud, where he's a rebel but also a louse. His rizz is at epic levels, but he's a fundamentally dislikable man, not a villain the audience admires, but just a hurtful careless individual, something like Fast Eddie. It's difficult to imagine many actors throwing the dice with such brave indifference so early in their careers - it would be like if Tom Cruise did his Magnolia role a year after Risky Business - and that "I'm doing this because I want to, and it feels righteous, like it or don't, I don't care", is what embodies cool, what we admire in Newman, and what we wish for within ourselves.
