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Paul Newman liked to joke about his trademark blue eyes, musing that if they turned brown his career might be in jeopardy, and was delighted to learn he was on Richard Nixon's enemies list, the Academy Award-winning actor's daughter said Monday.
Oscar-winning actor and longtime Connecticut resident Paul Newman has joined fellow actor Katharine Hepburn, humorist Mark Twain and baseball great Jackie Robinson in the Connecticut Hall of Fame.
Paul Newman, the late actor and 10-time Academy Award nominee, has been honored by lawmakers as a screen legend and humanitarian.
Paul Newman has left the assets to his wife, the Oscars to his foundation and the race cars to the highest bidder.
This year's ozone hole over Antarctica was the fifth biggest on record, reaching a maximum area of 10.5 million square miles in September, NASA says.
A Hollywood who's-who turned out for an annual fundraiser for Paul Newman's children's camp that doubled as a tribute to the late actor.
Broadway theaters will dim their lights Friday at curtain time for Paul Newman, who died last week at age 83.
Paul Newman broached the subject of his philanthropic legacy several years ago while fishing with friends Robert Forrester and David Horvitz off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Paul Newman couldn't have existed today — at least, not the way we came to know him.
The statement released Saturday by Paul Newman's daughters, Susan, Stephanie, Elinor, Melissa and Clea:
Paul Newman wanted to be a great athlete — he just never found a sport in which he could excel. Then, while filming the movie "Winning" in 1969 at age 43, he discovered auto racing.
Some critics' and fellow filmmakers' comments about Paul Newman:
While many celebrities seem to believe that even bad publicity is a good thing, clamoring at all moments for the narcissistic illumination of the spotlight, Paul Newman often preferred to keep to the shadows, emerging only to talk up a project he was supporting or, just as often, diverting that light to his philanthropic activities.
Paul Newman never much cared for what he once called the "rubbish" of Hollywood, choosing to live in a quiet community on the opposite corner of the U.S. map, staying with his wife of many years and — long after he became bored with acting — pursuing his dual passions of philanthropy and race cars.
Paul Newman has always been a fiercely private man, shunning the trappings of fame wrought by his Hollywood career while immersing himself in auto racing, philanthropy and a multimillion-dollar food business.
Warren Cowan, one of the last of the super publicists who helped make Hollywood the glamour capital of the world, has died. He was 87.
Paul Newman is donating $10 million to Kenyon College to help start a scholarship fund, the private liberal arts school said. Newman, 82, graduated from the central Ohio college in 1949 with a degree in drama and economics.
AS SOME Newsviners know, I am a minor movie buff, with a penchant for writing up Top Ten lists. They're almost always subjective as hell, but they are a great opportunity for a (largely) non-political discussion, and I always find some new gems to keep an eye out for.
Way back when I was a youngster, the cowboys who ruled the roost were John Wayne, Alan Ladd and Gary Cooper.
Dark heart of Mr Sundance: A new book claims Hollywood's golden boy Paul Newman was a drunken philandererThere are few leading men with such iconic status as Paul Newman. His piercing blue eyes, lean physique and laconic smile meant women never stopped swooning over him. The fact that he was famously happily married, to Joanne Woodward, only added to his perfection.
Doing Good After A Life Well-Lived -- Newman's Will Preserves His LegacyAn earnest man in death as in life, Paul Newman's will leaves most of his assets to the Newman's Own Foundation, and attempts to prevent the application of his name and likeness to products of lesser quality than those currently used.
Newman's Own: The secret he took to the grave.Paul Newman, who died last week, took a carefully guarded secret to his grave — something that would have disgraced him in Hollywood.
Op-Ed Columnist - Cool Hand Paul - Op-Ed - NYTimes.comPaul Newman taught me how to peel a cucumber.
A Socialist View of Paul Newman's Life & WorksThe death of actor Paul Newman on September 26, after a long battle with lung cancer, was followed by a flood of tributes and remembrances.
Epilogue: Private Funeral Held for Paul Newman Paul Newman's body has been cremated and a private funeral held, said the actor and philanthropist's friend A.E. Hotchner. "It's all over," he said.
Mo Dowd: Cool Hand Paul -- On Paul NewmanNewman was a rare liberal who loved the label; he made it onto Nixon's enemies list for supporting Eugene McCarthy's anti-Vietnam run. In 1997, I called him when he began writing a bit for The Nation (where he was an investor).
Robert Redford Remembers His Co-Star, Friend: Paul Newman"This was a man who lived a life that really meant something and will for some time to come," Robert Redford said about his late friend and co-star, Paul Newman. Hollywood legend Newman died of lung cancer at the age of 83 on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008.
From our files: A conversation with Paul Newman (1981)An interview with Paul Newman after his film Absence of Malice came out.
At OpEdNews: Obama's Presidency Could Galvanize 30 Million American Idealists and Reformers/A Memory of Paul Newman at United NationsWhen he was Jimmy Carter's Personal Ambassador to the UN, Paul Newman told me this on the floor of the UN General Assembly during the first Special Session on Disarmament: "WE HAVE TO KEEP TRYING!"
We see Paul Newman's real gifts in a mother's tearsOn hearing Paul Newman was dead, Babette Rittmeyer was right back at that day in New Hampshire four years ago when he gazed at her as if she were the only person among a clamoring crowd and those famous blue eyes brimmed with tears. She had hurried directly from her horse barn a …
Paul Newman, who died last Friday at the age of 83, struck me as the last of the square superstars. He became a major name as an actor without resorting to bad-boy tricks to get publicity, like racking up drug offenses or drunk-driving tickets.
Cool Hand Newman, a tough guy to the end, finally succumbs to cancer at 83 Paul Newman, one of the finest screen actors and the man described as the last of Hollywood's class acts, has died at the age of 83.
Movie legend Paul Newman dies, 83Oscar-winning film legend Paul Newman has died of cancer at the age of 83. The blue-eyed star of movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid died in his Connecticut home on Friday, surrounded by family and close friends.
FOXNews.com - Screen Legend Paul Newman Dies at 83 of Cancer - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And EntertainmentPaul Newman, the Oscar-winning star has died at his farmhouse near Westport, Connecticut .
Paul Newman Dies at 83Paul Newman, a major cinematic icon who starred in film for more than half a century has died Friday at his home near Westport, Connecticut, after battling cancer. He was 83.
Paul Newman dies at 83 |The screen legend Paul Newman has died at the age of 83 after losing a long battle against cancer. Newman died yesterday at his farmhouse near Westport, Connecticut, said his publicist, Jeff Sanderson. He was surrounded by family and close friends.
Breaking News: Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83 Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as ''Hud,'' ''Cool Hand Luke'' and ''The Color of Money,'' has died, a spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 93.
Breaking news: Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) - Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud,""Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.
Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83 WESTPORT, Conn. - Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.
"You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."
Paul Newman: A True Hollywood MenschPaul Newman is said to be seriously ill with cancer and is preparing to die at home....
It may seem morbid that reports of Paul Newman's ill-health have prompted speculation about the future of his multi-million dollar food production group, Newman's Own.
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