Paul Newman died on Friday after a long fight against lung cancer. At 83, he was a living legend who had changed more lives than most of us ever will, as an actor, philantropist and family man.
I didn't know much about him until I read Vanity Fair's 2008 Style Issue, which features a piece on him by Patricia Bosworth. The article covers all of his life, from his beginnings at the Actor's Studio to the famous Newman's Own line of products, which he created on condition that all the profits go to charity. Bosworth unveils an unknown side of Newman's, as a fame-wary family man who founded a camp for children with life-threatening diseases that he visited personally once or twice a year. For space reasons I cannot post the entire article. However, I'm enclosing a description of Newman by himself:
"Paul Newman (known as ol’ PL to both friends and enemies): The “L” stands for “Leonard” or “Lunkhead.” He answers to both. He is probably best known for his spectacularly successful food conglomerate. In addition to giving the profits to charity, he also ran Frank Sinatra out of the spaghetti-sauce business. On the downside, the spaghetti sauce is outgrossing his films. He did graduate from Kenyon College magna cum lager and in the process begat a laundry business, which was the only student-run enterprise on Main Street. Yale University later awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for unknown reasons. He has won four Sports Car Club of America National Championships and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest driver (70) to win a professionally sanctioned race (24 Hours of Daytona, 1995). He is married to the best actress on the planet, was number 19 on Nixon’s enemies list, and purely by accident has fifty-one films and four Broadway plays to his credit. He is generally considered by professionals to be the worst fisherman on the East Coast."
You can read the whole article at
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/09/newman200809?currentPage=1
Click on the video for the poker game scene from The Sting (1973)
I didn't know much about him until I read Vanity Fair's 2008 Style Issue, which features a piece on him by Patricia Bosworth. The article covers all of his life, from his beginnings at the Actor's Studio to the famous Newman's Own line of products, which he created on condition that all the profits go to charity. Bosworth unveils an unknown side of Newman's, as a fame-wary family man who founded a camp for children with life-threatening diseases that he visited personally once or twice a year. For space reasons I cannot post the entire article. However, I'm enclosing a description of Newman by himself:
"Paul Newman (known as ol’ PL to both friends and enemies): The “L” stands for “Leonard” or “Lunkhead.” He answers to both. He is probably best known for his spectacularly successful food conglomerate. In addition to giving the profits to charity, he also ran Frank Sinatra out of the spaghetti-sauce business. On the downside, the spaghetti sauce is outgrossing his films. He did graduate from Kenyon College magna cum lager and in the process begat a laundry business, which was the only student-run enterprise on Main Street. Yale University later awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for unknown reasons. He has won four Sports Car Club of America National Championships and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest driver (70) to win a professionally sanctioned race (24 Hours of Daytona, 1995). He is married to the best actress on the planet, was number 19 on Nixon’s enemies list, and purely by accident has fifty-one films and four Broadway plays to his credit. He is generally considered by professionals to be the worst fisherman on the East Coast."
You can read the whole article at
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/09/newman200809?currentPage=1
Click on the video for the poker game scene from The Sting (1973)
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