The Comic Book That Became Paul Newman’s Final Film

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Men’s Journal spoke about one of the late actor Paul Newman’s last movies, Road to Perdition, based on a GN by Max Allan Collins, and also a cartoon he worked on: Newman’s role as John Rooney marked his final live-action feature film. The Hollywood icon voiced Doc Hudson in Pixar’s animated film Cars in 2006 before passing away in 2008 at the age of 83. Collider highlighted Newman’s work alongside the rest of the cast as a major reason the film still holds up. […] Decades later, Road to Perdition remains a quiet high point in several careers. For Newman, it closed out a lifetime of work with one final, memorable big screen performance. Good for him. And that’s great to know he provided voice acting for a cartoon as well. I’d seen several movies he made decades before, and Newman was a very admirable performer, a lot more talented than some of today’s Hollywood actors. If only they’d learn from him. Originally published here Avi Green Avi Green was born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Israel at the age of 9. His first comic was the Fantastic Four. He considers himself a conservative-style version of Clark Kent, and his blog the Four Color Media Monitor is where he says "if we're going...

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