On Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 11:10:28 AM UTC-7, Jim Beam wrote:
> Screen and Real-Life Hero Paul Newman Dies at 83
> The Oscar winner and philanthropist had quietly been battling cancer
> Sep. 27, 2008 | 10:30 AM EDT
> Screen and Real-Life Hero Paul Newman Dies at 83
> The Oscar winner and philanthropist had quietly been battling cancer
> By Stephen M. Silverman
> Paul Newman, at the ChampCar World Series Generac Grand Prix at Road
> America in 2007 Photo by: Christian Petersen / Getty
> Paul Newman, a screen hero for more than half a century and the head
> of a philanthropic food empire for the past 25 years, has died, it was
> announced Saturday. He was 83.
> Surrounded by his family and close friends at his farmhouse near
> Westport, Conn., Newman succumbed Friday after a long battle with
> cancer, according to a statement from publicist Jeff Sanderson.
> Famed for his intense blue eyes, his love of car racing and one of the
> coolest demeanors ever to heat up the silver screen, Newman was
> nominated for Oscars ten times.
> But perhaps his proudest accomplishment, besides his 50-year marriage
> to actress Joanne Woodward, was starting Newman's Own, which since
> 1982 has made popcorn, spaghetti sauce, lemonade and salad dressing
> and has donated more than $250 million to charities selected by Newman
> himself.
>
> Career Highs
> With more than 80 films and TV productions to his credit, Newman's
> career spanned generations. His first Oscar nomination was in 1959 for
> Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and his most recent was in 2003 for Road to
> Perdition.
> The son of a sporting goods storeowner, the Ohio native enrolled in
> Ohio's Kenyon College after his 1946 discharge from the Navy. He
> married for the first time in 1949, then moved wife Jackie and their
> young son Scott east, where Newman attended the Yale Drama School and,
> later, the New York Actors Studio.
> Dramatic TV roles came his way, but it was his Broadway debut in 1953,
> as the sexy stranger in Picnic, that led to a Warner Bros. Hollywood
> contract and his first movie – the 1954 toga epic The Silver Chalice,
> which even he considered one of the worst movies ever made.
> Still, the looker more than redeemed himself in two screen adaptations
> of Tennessee Williams dramas, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof costarring
> Elizabeth Taylor, and Sweet Bird of Youth, with a highly charged
> Geraldine Page.
> In 1957, Newman and Jackie, with whom he also had two daughters,
> divorced. The next year, he married Woodward, with whom he eventually
> had another three daughters.
> Paul Newman, in the 1950s
> Photo by: Hulton Archive / Getty
> By the '60s Newman had hit his stride with such career-defining roles
> as the leads in The Hustler, Hud and Cool Hand Luke. Butch Cassidy and
> the Sundance Kid, followed by The Sting, made him and screen partner
> Robert Redford the hottest male stars of the '70s.
> Newman won an Oscar for The Color of Money, in 1987. Exactly 20 years
> later, he announced his retirement from acting, saying, "I'm not able
> to work anymore ... at the level that I would want to. You start to
> lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose
> your invention."
> Among his final roles was the voice of Doc Hudson in the 2006 animated
> movie Cars.
>
> Charitable Investments
> In 1988, Newman and Woodward established the Hole in the Wall Gang
> Camp, named for the outlaws in Butch Cassidy. The camp permits
> seriously ill youngsters to enjoy the great outdoors – at no cost to
> the kids or their families.
> "I'm a cynical S.O. B.," Newman said when the camp opened, in Ashford,
> Conn. "But I have a sense of wonder here."
> After his retirement from acting, Newman, who was based in Westport,
> Conn., remained active in his charity work (in 2007, he donated $10
> million to Kenyon College) and his food business, and even started
> theater directing for the first time.
> Besides Woodward, Newman's five daughters and several grandchildren
> survive him. His son, Scott Newman, died following an accidental drug
> overdose in 1978. In his memory, Paul Newman instituted the Scott
> Newman Center for drug abuse prevention.

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