The best hockey movie ever made (and should never be remade) is Slap Shot. The second best hockey movie ever made is The Boy Who Drank Too Much starring Lance Kerwin and Scott Baio. The third best hockey movie ever made is Miracle On Ice starring Karl Malden and Steve Guttenberg.
I grew up in Minnesota. There was an affluent neighborhood in my hometown and rumor had it Paul Newman owned a house in it.
It was 1978 and I was in junior high school when I first heard the rumor. As a 15 year old I found the rumor to be credible.
In Slap Shot, Reggie, the character played by Newman, is off to (the state of hockey) Minnesota at the end of the film. If the fictional Reggie was going to the land of 10,000 hockey rinks, why wouldn't Newman go there too? Minnesota native and film director George Roy Hill probably helped him pick out the house. I bet even the guys who played the Hanson brothers, who also hailed from Minnesota, went house hunting with Newman. Newman hadn't worked with the Cohen brothers yet, otherwise I'm sure they would have offered some real estate advice too.
Newman had done some auto racing at the Brainerd International Raceway, so that was another reason why he would want a house in Minnesota.
Apparently over the years a lot of people heard about Paul Newman's house and would knock on the door hoping to say "Howdy" to Paul.
As it turned out Paul didn't own or live in the house. The people who did live in the "Newman" house got tired of being bothered. They tracked down Paul at a racetrack and asked him to hold a sign they made. The plan was to take a photo of Paul with the sign and then they would turn the photo into a poster placing it in front of their home.
Paul graciously agreed to have his photo taken with the sign. I saw the photo and read the story about the house Paul Newman didn't own in the local newspaper. In the photo Paul has a big grin on his face and the sign says: I DON'T LIVE HERE.
Every time I watch Slap Shot or buy a jar of Paul's spaghetti sauce, I think of the house he didn't live in.
I grew up in Minnesota. There was an affluent neighborhood in my hometown and rumor had it Paul Newman owned a house in it.
It was 1978 and I was in junior high school when I first heard the rumor. As a 15 year old I found the rumor to be credible.
In Slap Shot, Reggie, the character played by Newman, is off to (the state of hockey) Minnesota at the end of the film. If the fictional Reggie was going to the land of 10,000 hockey rinks, why wouldn't Newman go there too? Minnesota native and film director George Roy Hill probably helped him pick out the house. I bet even the guys who played the Hanson brothers, who also hailed from Minnesota, went house hunting with Newman. Newman hadn't worked with the Cohen brothers yet, otherwise I'm sure they would have offered some real estate advice too.
Newman had done some auto racing at the Brainerd International Raceway, so that was another reason why he would want a house in Minnesota.
Apparently over the years a lot of people heard about Paul Newman's house and would knock on the door hoping to say "Howdy" to Paul.
As it turned out Paul didn't own or live in the house. The people who did live in the "Newman" house got tired of being bothered. They tracked down Paul at a racetrack and asked him to hold a sign they made. The plan was to take a photo of Paul with the sign and then they would turn the photo into a poster placing it in front of their home.
Paul graciously agreed to have his photo taken with the sign. I saw the photo and read the story about the house Paul Newman didn't own in the local newspaper. In the photo Paul has a big grin on his face and the sign says: I DON'T LIVE HERE.
Every time I watch Slap Shot or buy a jar of Paul's spaghetti sauce, I think of the house he didn't live in.