Towering, simply Towering - or one man can eat 50 eggs

It is no longer news that Paul Newman has died. There is little that I could add here that I am sure has not already appeared in the cycle of things - folks better prepared to knock out his filmography and pay homage to his legacy have already been at it. Let me say only this, I read once that Steve McQueen, the great Steve McQueen who was able to cover over just how uninteresting and wooden Yul Brynner was in the fantastic "Magnificent Seven", threatened to muck up the whole thing if Newman's name appeared above his on the billboards advertising the "Towering Inferno" - he knew. From Fast Eddie Felson to John Rooney and all the rest beside, Newman was, and played nothing less than, a real cool hand. So long as it is him we consider, all the rest of us are always and forever only shaking over here boss.
-fp