Hollywood legend Joanne Woodward now receiving home hospice care

The 93 year old actress and widow of Paul Newman has had dementia for well over a decade.

I'm a little sad that she's been suffering with dementia but I'm glad she has good care and that she will hopefully be reunited with her Paul soon.

Well, she & Paul did a great job with those kids. They have not paraded her around for clicks, but let her keep her dignity. Unlike the Bruce Willis debacle. If they were so hard up for cash wish they had put up a Go F'Me page, rather than subject him to scrutiny & pity.

I blame the Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds.

Bless her. Her performance in Rachel, Rachel still haunts me. And she's done so much good for the arts.

r2 Surely they shouldn't be hard up with all the millions Bruce made in the movies?

R6. Do any of his daughters with Demi have any kind of real career or job? People like Willis and his family piss through money.

The Newman- Woodward marriage was nowhere near as idyllic as it was paraded.

Watch the HBO documentary.

Is she still making her own dresses?

R8 is any marriage "idyllic" when looked at closely?? Probably not. I wonder what the arguments between Jimmy and Rosalynn were like .... "Jimmy, how many times have told you to put the cereal back in the right cupboard...!!" "Oh, the world's going to fall apart if I put the cereal box on the left side of the sink? Really Rosalynn??"

My partner's mom had Alzheimer's - the family had resources to keep her in a nice home, with 24hr quality care. It was still so hard, she was not happy or comfortable. Alzheimer's is a horrible thing.

r11 A very nasty bastard of a disease.

so, unexpected at 93 to be receiving home hospice care after ten plus years of dementia.

Is she in one of those hospices with locked doors and guards and one hour per day in the locked garden?

Oh, my. She's really aged!

[quote] hopefully be reunited with her Paul soon

Oh, to live in your fantasy world, R1

I’ve thought about her from time to time, knowing she’s had dementia for at least a decade. It’s a blessing at this point.

Just watched her and Paul in "From The Terrace" from 1960 on FXM She played a wife of a highly ambitious Newman who didn't have time for her and she whored around. They worked really well together.

r17 Let's be colder and just march them into the ovens in lieu of social security. Solyent green for everyone! Save the children! No more geriatric welfare queens on our tax dollars! stop the steal!

r14 No one suggested it was unexpected or a surprise but nevertheless given her fame it is news.

Gamma rays….in the end, it’s the gamma rays that getcha getcha. One way or another…

Apparently, she fucked Paul silly—like a Hell’s Kitchen you-know-what.

r21 It's a surprise they didn't do it sooner... except many of the old celeb homes and living centers had all but shutdown by the early 90s. The gentrification of old hollywood.. from coast to coast. And as with non famed services, we find ourselves in dire need of such facilities again... particularly outside of the dreary political landscape of what Florida has become.

She’s a fuckin’ home wrecker, and this is how they end up.

The little victims of Joanne’s harlotry - Paul’s first wife with their son who died of a drug overdose.

r26 Joannes stepdaughters speak very highly of her.

This is sad. She and Paul supported gay rights before it was common for celebs to do so

I knew she was up there in age, but was unaware of her diagnosis. I'm sorry to hear it. Especially when it's a lovely individual like Joanne Woodward. Meanwhile, Trump will live forever.

I think I'll re-watch "The Three Faces Of Eve" this weekend.

[quote] "Apparently, she fucked Paul silly—like a Hell’s Kitchen you-know-what."

Can you blame her?

Ah, the Joanne Woodward homewrecker troll never ceases.

Aren’t their daughters not on speaking terms because they disagree about where the money from the Newman food products should go?

[quote]R31 Ah, the Joanne Woodward homewrecker troll never ceases.

What would YOU call her??

R30. Paul apparently was quite un adventurous with sex j til he met her. She opened his eyes to good sex, he wrote in so many words.

That’s how she wooed him away from his wife.

The old ankles-behind-the-head trick.

Coincidental that she won an Emmy about Alzheimer's Disease called Do You Remember Love? and then she got it herself.

Great actress.

I always found her boring, both as an actress and as a personality.

Does she have dementia or Alzheimers, because yes, there is a difference.

My mom had poor circulation, wasn't getting enough blood flow to her brain, which caused dementia. She still recignized her children, could tell her twin grandchildren apart and still recognized her friends. She also drove the wrong way into a jug handle trying to make a turn, told us the same stories repeatedly and thought her parents were still alive (they had been dead for 55+ years)

While dementia was tough, it was not the horror show that is alzheimers

R38 nevermind I see the story says alzheimers

Robert Wagner pushed Joanne Woodward off the roof, just as surely he killed Natalie Wood... :-/

^^ A Kiss Before Dying ^^

R41, It was remade in 1991 with Matt Dillon and Sean Young.

R42 One of the rare cases of a re-make being as good an the original.

R43, And Matt bared his ass in the remake.

r44 Yummy! Love Matt Dillon

It has gone very quiet on the Joanne Woodward front.

r46 Her stepdaughters actually speak well of her.

I sometimes wonder why Hitchcock never cast her in anything; I think she would have been a good Hitchcock blonde. Psycho, or Marnie, for ex.

Joanne would have been far more interesting in MARNIE than that Tippy person.

I didn't realize she was still alive

I loved her in The Long, Hot Summer.

Her skin looks amazing. I wonder if she slept on her back, which has been linked to Alzheimer's

R39. It is difficult, sometimes impossible, to do a definitive Alzheimer’s diagnosis pre-mortem, though more sophisticated diagnostic approaches have been developed. Neurologists make their best inference based on symptoms. My husband, who has definite MCI, cannot have an MRI because he has a pacemaker/defibrillator; a CT scan is not as fine a measure. The treatment plan doesn’t seem much different anyway (none of it really effective, though our doctor at Rochester said new, better treatments will breakthrough in the next year). My husband also drove the wrong way on a circular road—most dramatic symptom it was not just normal aging. His physical health is reasonably good (other than the cardiac issues—a heart attack fifteen years ago), so (I hope) he’s with me for some years and he’s not at all unhappy yet. He’s almost 85 and retired as a prof at an Ivy. I’m close to 66 and retired before he started showing symptoms (I took a phased plan at 61). My plan is to keep him home and bring in skilled nursing care if necessary. I spend about 20-24 at home. Not how we planned our retirement, but you adapt or perish.

Joannes hospice care is lasting almost as long as Jimmy Carter's.

Her attempts at comedy were embarrassing.

That’s sad… to forget boiking Paul Newman.

R57, I thought she was good as Eunice's trashy friend, Midge Gibson, who threatened to punch Thelma Harper in the nose.

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