Legendary Actor Paul Newman Typified Hollywood's Leading Man
Encompassing over 50 years of movie making, Newman's career was made playing eccentric, flawed characters while also displaying a knack for great comedic timing. Newman raced cars in later life
Nominated for an Academy Award 6 times, Newman finally won his Best Actor Oscar for his role of Fast Eddie Felson from the movie "The Color of Money" opposite a young Tom Cruise. Newman had been nominated for the same role that he played in the movie "The Hustler" with Jackie Gleason.
Paul Newman passed away from lung cancer September 26, 2008 after a lengthy battle.
David Letterman Interviewing Paul Newman
Young Paul Newman's Screen Test With James Dean
Newman was married to Joanne Woodward
Woodward has been a successful actress since the mid 1950s
Well-known for their lengthy marriage, Newman and Woodward were married in 1958. Joanne Woodward appeared in ten movies with her husband, including Harry & Son which was also directed by Paul Newman.
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress. Woodward is also a television and theatrical producer.
Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in "The Hustler"
Hud: One of Newman's Best Early Roles
Cool Hand Luke: One of Newman's Classic Roles
"What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Cool Hand Luke was one of Newman's best films. Newman plays Luke, a member of a southern chain gang who tries to survive in a terrible situation. Co-starring George Kennedy and Strother Martin, Newman does his best to disrupt the prison and refuses to buckle under to any authority.
Memorable scenes include Newman trying to eat a hundred eggs, his fight with a massive George Kennedy, and of course, the opening scene as Newman removes the heads off of parking meters with a pipe cutter.
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American drama film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Pearce. The film features George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon and Morgan Woodward.
Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison campFlorida Department of Corrections 1966-1969 timeline who refuses to submit to the system. His inability to conform drives the plot of the movie, in the same vein as characters such as Winston Smith from Nineteen Eighty-Four, Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Number Six from the British television series The Prisoner (aired during the same year) and Jake Holman in The Sand Pebbles.
In 2005, the United States Library of Congress deemed Cool Hand Luke'' to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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The Bicycle Ride Scene From Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Paul Newman and Katherine Ross in a lighthearted scene
Newman Became Involved In Driving Race Cars After Appearing in Winning
Making a Movie About Race Driving Stoked Newman's Interest to Race Cars
Paul Newman's first car was a 1937 Packard which took him as a youthful actor from Wisconsin to New York, fell in love with the sport of auto racing after starring with wife Joanne Woodward in Winning in 1969.Newman played a rising young race car driver who dreamed of winning the Indianapolis 500. Newman stated that if he hadn't made Winning, he doubted he would have become involved in racing. "I don't think so, no. It was just good fortune that we started that project when we did. And I took to it very slowly. ...It happened at exactly the right time."
Newman became more than just a race car driver himself, as he formed a successful team that since 1983 has won 107 races and eight series championships with drivers like Michael Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Cristiano da Matta, Paul Tracy and Sebastien Bourdais.
Newman Doing Card Tricks From The Sting
Newman showing off for Robert Redford
I've tried to learn most of the card tricks he does here: one-handed shuffle, fanning the cards etc. Mostly I can do the part where he fires the deck across the table in error.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Newman and Elizabeth Taylor
Newman's Own: It all started as popcorn
With all proceeds going to charity, Newman's Own has proven to be a very successful brand name. Another project that Paul Newman had lent his name to that proved to be golden.
'Newmans Own' is a food company and for-profit corporation founded by actor Paul Newman and author A. E. Hotchner in 1982. Newman received all of the profits from product sales, and then he donated 100% of the proceeds, after taxes, to various educational and charitable organizations of his own selection. As an example of a Social Enterprise, Newmans Own has also inspired other business to adopt his model: Give Something Back Business Products being one of them.Give Something Back Website: H...
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In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
It was 1982 when Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made their foray into local gourmet shops with bottles of their homemade salad dressing. The venture was intended to be a lark, a way to poke fun at the traditional way the market operates. Hurdling obstacle after obstacle, they created the first company to mass-market all-natural products, eliminating the chemicals, gums, and preservatives that existed in food at the time. This picaresque saga is the inspiring story of how the two friends parlayed the joke into a multimillion-dollar company that gives all its profits to the less fortunate without spending money on galas, mailings, and other expensive outreaches. It also serves as a textbook for foundations and charitable organizations looking to do the most good they can with what they have.
Told in alternating voices, Newman and Hotchner have written a zany tale that is a business model for entrepreneurs, an inspirational book, and just plain delightful reading.
In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/12/2009)
PAUL NEWMAN, cofounder of Newman's Own and The Hole in the Wall Gang, was a major motion picture actor who recently passed away. A. E. HOTCHNER, cofounder of Newman's Own and The Hole in the Wall Gang, is the author of international bestseller Papa Hemingway and such memoirs as Looking for Miracles and King of the Hill, which was adapted into an award-winning film by Steven Soderbergh. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.
Slapshot! Newman's Classic Hockey Movie
Newman plays the player-coach of the Charleston Chiefs, a soon-to-be-defunct minor league hockey franchise until Newman brings in a trio of manical brothers the Hansens (definitely not the music group) to "play some Old Time Hockey."
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Paul Newman Memorabilia
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"The fall will probably kill ya"
The Color of Money was the movie that Newman finally won his Oscar
Also stars Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Forest Whitaker
Paul Newman reprises his role of "Fast Eddie Felson" 25 years after appearing as Felson opposite Jackie Gleason as "Fats" in the brilliant movie "The Hustler." Newman takes on an apprentice (young Tom Cruise as Vince, a pool hustler).
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Paul Newman left behind a vast legacy of films for us to enjoy.
Here are some links to some of the great movies in which Newman appeared
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The Theme Music From The Sting
Gotta Love That Ragtime Stuff by Scott Joplin
Paul Newman in Somebody Up There Likes Me
An Hour With Paul Newman: Interviewed by Charlie Rose
May 26, 1994
Paul Newman at a glance
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008)"Film Star Paul Newman dead at 83." Reuters.com. September 27, 2008."Legendary Actor Paul Newman Dies at Age 83." ABC News. September 27, 2008. was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.
Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.FAQs Newman's Own.com. As of October 2008, these donations had exceeded US $280 million.
Where can I find out more about Paul Newman?
From "The Color of Money," Newman with Future Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker
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Newman's Final Film Was The Animated Cars
Let's Hear it For Paul Newman!
Sadly, Paul Newman passed away September 26, 2008. He left behind a lifetime (no, 2 lifetimes) worth of classic movies for us to enjoy.
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- JenOfChicago JenOfChicago Apr 20, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
- Very nice tribute.
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- Shelly Shelly Nov 24, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
- What a nice lens and tribute--I squidooed over from Tipi's place as she is featuring this lens--I see she keeps revisiting you here, oddly I learned of her being called "Cool Hand Luke" here. One never knows what they are going to learn next on Squidoo! I've been a fan of his original salad dressing for years--also great for sauteing chicken in.
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- Tipi Tipi Oct 25, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
- I was called, 'Cool Hand Luck', back in 1977! I'm still not sure why. I've never been a gambler... so it must have been something to do with Squidoo-addiction way back when, just needed to to take hold! I do love this lens and will visit again.
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- Just me, Tipi Just me, Tipi Oct 15, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
- Had to stop by and say, "Hi"! I must agree that Newmen's Own is a delightful salad dressing. And, I just love this lens, Bradshaw. Maybe there's some world wide grief that I'm feeling here, or I was just a fan.
Your Fan, Too!
Susie
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- aj2008 aj2008 Oct 11, 2008 @ 6:35 am
- What a lovely lens. I never did work out which of the two characters, Butch or Sundance, I liked the most - great film. Also liked Newman and Redford in The Sting. 5*s
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