Because I’m morbid, and spend my time on things such as this, I thought of the following video as being exactly the one I would want to post when… Well, as Richard said, “It’s good we had some warning that he was sick, otherwise when we heard, we would have just been walking around bumping into things.”

No one had posted this particular scene on youtube (much to my surprise), so it seemed as good a time as any to learn how to do so. Now that I know how, I’ll surely be annoying all of you with the skill.

Without further ado, the following is my favorite sequence from my favorite of Paul Newman’s performances: Cool Hand Luke. (I was going to make it one among a series of favorite scenes, but… YOU sit with “The Long Hot Summer,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Hustler,” “The Sting,” and “The Verdict” in front of you and not lose your mind trying to choose… Best to leave it at this.)