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Subject: Newton in Newsday

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Lorraine Crennan

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Date Posted: 17:30:38 07/12/06 Wed

Arrrrr!! Proud to see my local Long Island Newsday paper reveal Robert Newton as the No. 1 pop-culture pirate as "Long John Silver." They claim he has "everything" you could want, a "pirate's pirate," blowing away all others before him, and rightly so. I remember going to a pub back in the 70's named "Long John Silver's." They mentioned the fast-food chain named after him, but not the pub. Some actors will never be forgotten. Robert Newton is one of them.

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[> Subject: Re: Newton in Newsday
Author: Trisha [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:55:09 07/14/06 Fri Wow! That's terrific news to hear. Do you know if there is any information about this online? If so, could you post the link? Thanks so much! Your friend, Trisha :-) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: Chuck [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 23:00:05 07/14/06 Fri With a little help from Google, I found the article. Nice to see Robert Newton still considered the top movie pirate. <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-ffmov4799626jul02,0,5865141.story">http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-ffmov4799626jul02,0,5865141.story</a> [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: Trisha [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:16:01 07/17/06 Mon Thanks, Chuck, for the link. By the way, Susan, I did vote for LJS in the available poll. He's got a long way to go to catch Captain Jack. Maybe more will be voting for LJS soon! Your friend, Trisha :-) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Newton in Newsday
Author: Susan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:57:55 07/15/06 Sat Hey, there's a poll to go with article--who's your favorite pirate? So far, Jack Sparrow is winning, with Long John coming in third after Captain Hook. (Captain Hook????) Robert Newton fans, get out the vote!!! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Newton in Newsday

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Susan
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Date Posted: 01:21:11 07/18/06 Tue

Great, Trisha, I'm glad to see LJS is catching up! I know there's no way he's going to catch up to Jack Sparrow with all the POTC hype, but he could at least come in a respectable second! (How could anybody prefer Captain Hook to Long John Silver? They've gotta be people who've never seen Treasure Island. And those other two choices were just ridiculous--Painty the Pirate Painting and Jean LaFoote from the Captain Crunch commercials? What the ...?!)

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[> Subject: Re: Newton in Newsday
Author: Susan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:34:46 08/02/06 Wed Alas, Newsday has taken down the article, along with the poll ... but last time I checked, Captain Hook hadn't gotten any new votes, while Long John had gotten up to almost 20 percent of the vote, leaving Jack Sparrow with only about 70! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: Susan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:37:35 08/02/06 Wed Actually, I should have put a happy face next to that last posting ... While the article is gone and the poll has ended :-(, LJS moved up to second place :-). (We need a "comedy/tragedy" icon! An' if I were cap'n o' Voy forums, we'd 'ave one, by thunder! Arr!) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: Elizabeth [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:20:09 06/14/07 Thu <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.newsday.com/search/sns-ap-film-past-pirates,0,4699229.story">http://www.newsday.com/search/sns-ap-film-past-pirates,0,4699229.story</a> here's another artical that mentions Robert but it's more about "Pirates" with Johnny Depp [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Newton in Newsday
Author: Susan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 00:40:13 06/15/07 Fri "'Newton's performance is probably the closest antecedent to Jack Sparrow because he's colorful, unpredictable, roguish and scurrilous but somehow likable,' Maltin said." Hooray for Leonard Maltin! :-) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]