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08/19/2003 Entry: "Defendez le HUD"

"In the 1963 film 'HUD,' for which Mr. Newman was nominated for an Academy Award, the ad campaign was based on the slogan, 'Paul Newman is HUD.' Mr. Newman claims that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, called HUD, is a fair and balanced institution and that some of its decency and respectability has unfairly rubbed off on his movie character, diluting the rotten, self-important, free-trade, corrupt conservative image that Mr. Newman worked so hard to project in the film. His suit claims that this 'innocence by association' has hurt his feelings plus residuals."
Paul Newman Is Still HUD, by Paul Newman, NY Times, August 19, 2003 (via Jacques LJ)

"Laurel Sutton: Why do women swoon over cowboys?

"John Bloom: Do women swoon over cowboys? I'm rummaging around here for my chaps and boots."
John Bloom (aka Joe Bob Briggs) Interview at LHLS, June 2003

If you have a thing or thang for cowboys, for God's sake don't see HUD, Paul Newman is sex on legs in that film. Excuse me, I must go find some ice.

Actually, HUD was a distrubing film. I'd have to see it again to say exactly why, but I do remember being upset by it.

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