I’m still not entirely sure who Paul Newman is, but I understand he is dead and handsome. Or was handsome. Are dead people handsome? That’s probably a personal question.
A few weeks back, a headline went around about how Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (also unknown to me but also evidently handsome) had a “Fuck Hut” attached to their bedroom. This got a lot of traction online, probably because the phrase “Fuck Hut” is wild. But it stuck out to me for another reason.
I got Paul Newman confused with Randy Newman, the guy who sang “Short People” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “I Love L.A.” and Randy Newman’s “Faust.” And because I’m far from a Randy Newman expert, I thought, “Yeah, sure, that tracks, of course Newman had a fuck hut.”
The thing about the phrase, as I understand it from googling “Paul Newman Fuck Hut” to refresh my memory on who Paul Newman was (this went surprisingly well and thankfully did not lead to some very sad video of…well, it’d be sad), is that it’s very different when Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward use it than it is when Randy Newman uses it in my imagination. For Randy Newman, it’s either raunchy and bumbling or sick and terribly creepy. For Paul Newman, it’s a beautiful-people thing. Something I could never understand as an everyman NIT blogger. Which makes it weirder that the story got traction. If it had been Randy Newman, I’d get it. But Paul? Who cares what Paul Newman used to do in his Fuck Hut?
