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Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age
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.Getting to the Bottom of the Paul Newman Lung Cancer Reports
Although Paul Newman’s rep has denied reports that the 83-year-old actor is terminally ill, yesterday it was reported that Newman has turned over the entire $120 million value of his ownership in Newman’s Own - the company that makes salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and cookies - to charity, which has only added fuel to rumors that the Academy Award winner is dying of lung cancer. However; it should be noted that Newman actually set up Newman’s Own Foundation Inc., the recipient of the donations, two years ago - prior to any alleged lung cancer diagnosis - in honor of his 80th birthday to ensure his charities would continue benefiting from his generosity. Reports of Newman’s illness started in March when PageSix reported that the Academy Award winner had been seeing an oncologist at New York’s Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for the past seven months.Paul Newman Tribute
Paul Newman's Politics By John Nichols, TheNation.com September 28, 2008 Actors do not usually turn in performances that gain the notice of presidents. But when Paul Newman decided to take the role of anti-war activist in the early days of the Vietnam imbroglio, he performed so ably -- as an early and essential campaigner for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and prominent supporter of George McGovern -- that he ranked high on then-President Richard Nixon's "enemies list." Newman's name was on the original list of enemies produced by Nixon aide Charles Colson in 1971.Actors And Colleagues React To Paul Newman's Death
Paul Newman was known for far more than just acting. And with the breaking news of his passing yesterday, friends, fellow actors, and colleagues are remember the man who brought light into their lives. Here's what some of the people close to Paul or influenced by him are saying: "He set the bar too high for the rest of us.Julia Roberts to Honor Paul Newman at Benefit
Julia Roberts, Sean Penn and Tom Hanks are taking the stage to honor the charity work of late actor Paul Newman. The A-listers -- along with Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Danny Devito, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Billy Crystal and Danny Glover -- will perform a staged reading of The World of Nick Adams, an adaptation of a number of Ernest Hemingway's stories by A.E. Hotchner, at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall on October 27.Martha Stewart: Actor Paul Newman Is "Full of Vim and Vigor"
rumors build that Paul Newman is battling caner, his pal (and neighbor Martha Stewart) is praising the legendary actor. "He is still full of vim and vigor, he is still Cool Hand Luke to me, and of course, my Butch Cassidy!" she wrote about Newman, 83, on her blog Thursday.Broadway to Dim Lights for Paul Newman
Broadway theaters will dim their lights Friday at 8 p.m. curtain time in honor of the late Paul Newman, the Associated Press reports. Although he was known for his film roles, he also appeared in five Broadway productions, starting in 1953 in William Inge's Picnic.Paul Newman(Then and Now)
Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director.
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Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Say” Record of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read This Letter” Best New Artist: Adele Best Rock Album: Coldplay, Viva la Vida Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Rich Woman” Song of the Year: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida” Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Sugarland, “Stay” Best R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson Industry Icon Award: Clive Davis Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer) Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Peaches En Regalia,” Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock Best Metal Performance: Metallica, “My Apocalypse” Best Hard Rock Performance: The Mars Volta, “Wax Simulacra” Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire” Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Gravity” Best Alternative Music Album: Radiohead, In Rainbows Best Pop Vocal Album: Duffy, Rockferry Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida” Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Adele, “Chasing Pavements” Best Pop Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Eagles, “I Dreamed There Was No War” Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books): Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood) Best Contemporary R&B Album: Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains Best R&B Song: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E.My Two Fave Actresses Charity Work
Reese Witherspoon - Children's Defense Fund Academy Award Winning actress, Reese Witherspoon serves on the Board of Directors at CDF. She first learned about CDF while reading a book by its President Marian Wright Edelman entitled, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, during a road trip from Nashville to Stanford University. She later reread the book, decided she wanted to be part of CDF's work and called CDF to get involved.
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