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   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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