INSIDE SCOOP
Newport Beach Mayor Tod Ridgeway had a failure to communicate with the
crowd Thursday at the 21st annual Mayor’s Dinner hosted by Speak Up
Newport.
Midway into his state of the city address, the newly chosen mayor
attributed a quote -- “What we have here is a failure to communicate” --
to Paul Newman in the film “Cool Hand Luke.” While the quote is from that
film, it was not said by Newman, who played the wisecracking title
character.
Instead, it is said by Strother Martin, the sunglasses-wearing captain
of the road prison chain gang.
But, really, who’s keeping track? It’s “Cool.”
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