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Cool Hand Luke dies

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Anonymous:
I remember one guy digging opposite the football field on the path that led to the Bertschys’ and Warrens’. He had to camp there for a week digging and redigging a grave (Cool Hand Luke did it only for a weekend).
 
But read the following entry from Malcolm’s Blog. The truth is that Paul Newman yanked his “son” from Hyde after Joe Gauld confided to him that he stole the idea from the movie to make kids dig and redig their own graves.  


From Malcolm’s Blog
https://www.hyde.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=40561
Paul Newman, 1925-2008
10/1/2008
As long as I can remember, Paul Newman has loomed large on the Silver Screen. For me, he personifies cool in “Cool Hand Luke.” He personifies love when he pedals a bicycle with Katherine Ross on the handlebars to the strains of B.J. Thomas in “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.” And I wonder just how many buddy friendships have stolen from the Newman and Redford dynamic? (“Who are those guys?”) He’s deep in the Baby-Boomer psyche. We all feel a connection.
What a lot of Hyde folks don’t realize is that Newman also had a connection to Hyde. He and Joanne Woodward had a “son” at Summer Challenge Program in 1972. It was actually Joanne’s youngest brother and she and Paul were serving in a guardian capacity while the mother was ill.
Those of us who were on the scene well remember the day Newman came to Hyde for his interview with my father, Joe Gauld. Suffice it to say that there was quite a buzz around campus and even throughout greater Bath that summer given the fact that he and my father repaired to a Bath tavern for some post-interview refreshments. (Week later: “I’m not kidding. I swear to you that I saw Paul Newman in here last week having a couple of cold ones.”….”Sure you did, Shorty. And exactly how many had you had?”)
The summer had barely begun when the boy’s mother decided she wanted her youngest at home and pulled her son out. At the time, Paul said to my father, “Sorry Joe, but my hands are tied. You win some and you lose some.” (Can’t you just imagine that on screen!?!?!)
Hyde kids and faculty ran into him from time to time a few years back when “Message in a Bottle” was filmed in and around Bath. He was always friendly and down-to-earth in area stores and restaurants. His respect spread throughout the Pine Tree State when he filmed “Empire Grill.” Mainers might not always be quick to accept folks “from away,” but they are pretty sharp when it comes to recognizing the real deal.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Malcolm Gauld" ---The summer had barely begun when the boy’s mother decided she wanted her youngest at home and pulled her son out. At the time, Paul said to my father, “Sorry Joe, but my hands are tied. You win some and you lose some.” (Can’t you just imagine that on screen!?!?!)
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--- Quote from: "Guest" ---The truth is that Paul Newman yanked his “son” from Hyde after Joe Gauld confided to him that he stole the idea from the movie to make kids dig and redig their own graves.
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So much for Hyde School spin versus "the real deal."

Anonymous:
I heard it referred to as “digging a pit.” Though we used this inoffensive expression, the association of a 6x2x6 foot pit to a grave didn’t escape many. “Digging one’s own grave” is of course an idiomatic expression for following a self-destructive course.

Anonymous:
No surprise that Malcolm would omit details of why the Woodward boy got pulled from his Paul Newman story. Hey-- what's a "professional administrator" to do?

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Guest" ---To the general public, Luke is an icon of the sixties who stands for individual resistance to authority. To Hyde students, he is presented as a warning.

After his second jailbreak, Luke is caught, brought back, and forced to dig a 6x2x6 foot hole, then told to fill it, then to redig it – and so on until he breaks. Only, he never really breaks. He escapes again, and this time he is shot , unarmed, while giving up without a fight.  

The movie was released in 1967, and that same year Hyde initiated the practice of making runaways and “hard cases” dig 6x2x6 foot holes. They didn’t call it “digging your own grave,” but one understood.

This is why Cool Hand Luke became a perennial Hyde entertainment.
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--- Quote from: "Guest" ---...The truth is that Paul Newman yanked his “son” from Hyde after Joe Gauld confided to him that he stole the idea from the movie to make kids dig and redig their own graves.
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I don't think I ever fully appreciated the depth ( ;) !!) of this connection. Thanks for that insight.

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