Not even cynical XPT'ers can downgrade the coolness that was Paul Newman.
Here he is on Letterman's very first CBS show in 1993:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cku2IeoP3QAGot to work with the Coen Brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cku2IeoP3QAAnd played straight pool* with Jackie Gleason with George C. Scott watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF1Jjyvec2EAnd acted in movies based on books by Ken Kesey, William Faulkner and Richard Russo.
*-the king of billiards games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_pool)