Paul Newman: Acting Icon
Ranked #18,378 in Entertainment, #202,712 overall
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 also 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.

A Number Of Tributes To Paul Newman
David Letterman Interviewing Paul Newman
Letterman's Salute To Paul Newman
Young Paul Newman's Screen Test With James Dean
Hud: One of Newman's Best Early Roles
Even CafePress Loves Newman
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
The Latest From Newman's Own
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
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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."
Paul Newman Memorabilia
The Color of Money was the movie that Newman finally won his Oscar
Also stars Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Forest Whitaker
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Theme Music From The Sting
Gotta Love That Ragtime Stuff by Scott Joplin
Paul Newman in Somebody Up There Likes Me
A Tribute To Paul Newman
From "The Color of Money," Newman with Future Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker
Check out eBay for Paul Newman Movies
Newman and Woodward's Appearance On "What's My Line?"
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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TylaMac
Feb 21, 2011 @ 1:22 am | delete
- Paul Newman will always be one of my all-time favorite actors. If I were forced to choose a favorite among the many great movies he starred in,I think I would pick Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. The whole cast in that movie is excellent.
*Blessed by a Squid Angel.*
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JenOfChicago
Apr 20, 2009 @ 1:07 pm | delete
- Very nice tribute.
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Shelly
Nov 24, 2008 @ 9:01 pm | delete
- 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
Oct 25, 2008 @ 8:46 pm | delete
- 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
Oct 15, 2008 @ 11:20 pm | delete
- 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.
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