Paul Newman, the legendary film star and irreverent cultural icon who created a model of philanthropy fueled by the benefits of dressing that has become almost as famous as he was, died. He was 83.
Newman died Friday in his house near Westport, Connecticut, after a long battle with cancer, journalist Jeff Sanderson said.
Incredibly beautiful, Newman’s status as a superstar with maintaining its distance from its integrity through almost 100 Broadway, television and film roles. As actor and director, he has developed in the Hollywood of State for seniors, big screen with admiration for his quiet generosity, no business sense, race car guts, political activism and lasting marriage to actress Joanne Woodward.
Annoyed by the public fascination with her is like a Roman statue and the forest-blue eyes often chosen Newman shifted character roles. In the 1960s he helped to the American anti-hero and became identified with the charming Misfits, CADS and men in classic films like “The Hustler,” “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. ”
“This is a great loss in many ways,” Martin Scorsese, who directed Newman in “The Color of Money”, said in a statement Saturday. “The history of films without Paul Newman? It is unthinkable …. His powerful eloquence, his sense of craft consumed, so you consumed sees no sense of effort there on the screen and set a new standard.”
Robert Redford, Newman’s “Sundance” co-star, said in a statement “There is a point where the feelings go beyond words. I have a real friend. My life - and this country - is better for his being there.”
Newman’s poker Look in “The Sting” - cunning, warning, kidnapped, amused, self-assured, alert - summary of its power as a person and player, “said Stewart Stern, a writer and long-term friend.
“You never see the whole bridge. There is always a map of May, or May not play,” said Stern. “Maybe he does not even have done.”
Newman said that his success came less natural talent than hard work, luck and tenacity of a terrier.
“Acting,” he said, “is really nothing other than exploring a number of facets of your personality to try someone else.” In the early films, he says, and he tried to adapt to nature itself, but later, the character to come to me. ”
The actor was proud, his friends say, for its part, Oscar nominated role in “The absence of anger,” “The Verdict” and “Nobody’s Fool”, which he dug deep into the complex emotions of ordinary men Fighting for dignity, justice or a sense of connection. In 2003 he was nominated for an Oscar for his latest feature film appearance as a conflict mob boss in “Road to Perdition.” Two years later, 80, he won an Emmy for playing a meddling father in “Empire Falls”.
“It is majestic in the world to act,” said director Arthur Penn, who worked with him early in his career. “It has everything done and done well.”
Part of a generation of Edgy, natural scientist, New York players who changed Hollywood in the jaren’50’60s, Newman is often compared with other Method actors Marlon Brando and James Dean. Film critic David Ansen once adopted as the basis that the player has no “physical or psychological presence, it was more accessible, even when he played a heel.
Newman, “Ansen wrote,” is our big movie star way. ”
Eight times nominated for the Academy Awards for best actor category, Newman won once for “The Color of Money” (1986), in which he again the role of “Fast” Eddie Felson, the origin in 1961, “The Hustler.” He also took home honorary Oscar in 1985 for career achievement and in 1993 for his humanitarian efforts. Later, however, boycotted shows the prices, despite the Oscar, Emmy and Tony nominations. He said that he no longer owns a tuxedo.
In real life, Newman was “the epitome of class, courtesy without oppressive,” said Victor Navasky, former editor of the Nation, a liberal magazine which Newman invested and for which he wrote a few columns. Private and complex, naughty Newman was also the beer loving prankster and an idealist who took to the streets to protest against the war in Vietnam.
He was happy, friends said, when he heard what he had done to President Nixon enemies list.
Married since 1958 to Woodward, his second wife, a cultured Newman clearly a Hollywood-style of life, shuttling between a house in New York and a renovated apartment in the forest farm Westport, from which he passions including cooking and car racing.
Very competitive, Newman was called on the job, he told reporters, because in the race, unlike the interpretation of the definition of “good” is not a grim matter of opinion. Although he started the race to 47, he was respected by his colleagues sport, and his team in second place in the prestigious Le Mans endurance race in 1979. At 70, he became the oldest driver in a professional race car when his endorsed the team was third in 24-hour race in Daytona, Florida still in the course of 80 years, Newman has escaped unharmed from a car fire in 2005 and a Other race a month later.
Since the 1980s, Newman has spent more time with Newman’s Own, a food company, he founded a lark who grew up in one of the largest charitable institutions. The company, that all-natural salad dressings, popcorn, sauces and juice, which is more than $ 250 million, after taxes for hundreds of groups, including his own Hole in the Wall Gang camps (named after the gang of outlaws “Butch Cassidy”) .
Friends horror Newman said what he called “noisy philanthropy.” He estimated the prizes and awards were excessive and offered once refused a national medal in a letter to President Clinton asking that the recognition “honorrhea.”
When people say: “What are you man”, says he always exhaust themselves, “said Alice Trillin friend. As friends, Newman was opened, so vague, and not always lived an exemplary life. Exceptionally tolerant of other weaknesses, he said “Previously I was a fool of myself.”
At the end of Bloomer
Friends and neighbors in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights could not have foreseen a future as a sex symbol Leonard Paul Newman, the end of the second son of a flower shop owner.
Born on January 26, 1925, Newman was too short and skinny to play football or baseball and said he regularly had “the bejesus expelled” him at school. He was encouraged in art by an uncle, who wrote poetry and her mother, who taught her to appreciate music and books and information exchange theater shows they had seen.
Although he acted in the primary and secondary plays for the sake of his family, he said his father, a tough, hard-working former journalist, who him a light and often treated as if he was disappointed in him.
“I desperately want to show him something, somewhere along the line, I could cut mustard,” Newman told Time magazine in 1982. One of the great suffering of his life, says he Was that his father died in 1950 without its success.
At 18, Newman enlisted in the Navy, in the hope of a pilot from the Second World War, but was rejected for Color Blind. He spent three years as a radio operator aboard bombers in the Pacific Ocean.
Then, he enrolled as a 21-year, first year at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he some of his happiest days, playing second string football, drinking beer and care problems. After a bar brawl ended up in prison, he was kicked off the team. He turned to action.
“I was probably one of the worst college players at the moment,” Newman said years later. “I learned my lines by heart and said, without spontaneity, without knowing what it meant to act and react.”
However, novelist EL Doctorow, a Kenyon first year at the time recalled that “there was no doubt about his talent.” He said Newman was popular as the first player on campus and the concession he operated laundry.
“It has always been entrepreneurial,” says Doctorow.
After graduating with a degree in English, Newman acted in summer and winter stock productions in Wisconsin and Illinois, thinks he might learn the word or fiction. By that time he married Jacqueline Witte, a fellow actor, with whom he has three children: Scott, Stephanie and Susan. Scott died in 1978 of an overdose of drugs and alcohol.
When his father died in 1950, Newman moved home to run the shop. A year later, the shop was sold and he fled to New Haven, Connecticut, where he briefly studied drama at Yale University, specializing in management, before trying his luck in New York.
“I was ready to try for a year, and so I’m not return to Yale and get my diploma,” he said Lillian Ross and Helen in the book “The player: a profile of an art.” “I had not intend to wait around me until I was old and bruised and bitter. ”
In New York, then the center of live television and the home of the Actors Studio, Newman took lessons in how to act, a technique that stressed naturalism when he auditioned for parts and sold encyclopedias in support of his family. He attributed the last thing he knew how to act in the creative community of actors, writers and directors studio. Later he became president, and it was never made public, the design of operations for seven years when he fell on hard times.
Described as “beautiful and intense,” the young Newman soon found small parts in television shows, including “you are there”, and the role of a wealthy class in the Broadway production of “Picnic” where Woodward is a coating. When he asked to play the lead, a sexy talker, director Joshua Logan said the actor, was not suitable because of the lack of “sexual threat” - a challenge Newman met by entering into a life of vigorous training routine to stay in shape.
Her marriage deteriorated, he began to attract working and positive reactions, while his wife priorities of the past to children, according to friends. Newman fell in a period of turbulence, where he started and Woodward case.
He was arrested after running a red light, driving in a bush and leaving the scene of the accident. The breakup of his marriage was based on, Stern said, because Newman was so concerned about that does justice to his wife and children.
His first wife a divorce in Mexico in 1957. A year later, Newman and Woodward married in a match lasting only Newman attributed to “correct the amounts of lust and respect.” The couple has three daughters, Nell, Melissa and Clea.
Despite rumors that not all was well later in their marriage, Stern said they were committed and honor each other’s life choices. Although Woodward, once started as a “state of mind is a terrible thing to waste on a Trans Am,” Stern says, “they had real veneration for the other talents and activities and oddities.”
Together they have appeared in 11 films, including “The Long Hot Summer”, “From the terrace” and “Mr and Mrs Bridge.” Newman has also achieved its four other films, including the highly respected “Rachel, Rachel”, about a teacher whose fears keep her imprisoned in a small town.
Stern, author of the screenplay of the movie, it is sometimes said Newman observed watching his wife doing something that he proposes.
“It was the most exposed face of the love that I’ve ever watched beaten,” he said. “We could not look long. It was like opening the wrong door.”
Hollywood studios Newman recruited in 1954, when the film industry, threatened by television, hired a large number of New York’s most creative players, directors and writers. According to Penn, Newman was symptomatic of what’s to come, the demand for independence that the next generation involved. ”
As a first step, however, Newman, the actor seriously, could not avoid BEEF CAKE rolls because his appearance was so devastating. When people saw, Penn said she “just fell away.”
Newman was particularly humiliated by his first film, “The Silver chalice”, in which he was considered a toga-clad Greek sculptor to the forced lines. When the film aired during a week in 1963 on television, took a black-bordered ad in the newspaper The Times said that “Paul Newman apologizes every night of the week.”
Determined to not just a pretty boy player for the studio, Newman was one of the first players to buy back its contract with Warner Bros. and later his own production with colleagues. Newman’s propensity for playing a variety of roles reflects “his imagination and his willingness to accept a flyer,” the director John Huston wrote in his memoir, “an open book.”
The price was a checkered career and with miscasting unforgettable roles, including a jazz musician in “Paris Blues”, a turn-of-the-century anarchist in “Lady L” and a double agent in “Torn Curtain”.
Critics and audience loved him, but when he played in South bleak films based on Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Sweet Bird of Youth. Newman’s intrigues in the pool shark” The Hustler “began a sequence of film roles that historians have hailed as capturing the essence of postwar American man: cool, cynical and full of confidence in the whole world known traditional values collapses around him.
Newman is so popular that he later complained that the public and the critics missed the point in ‘Hud’, a film in which he portrayed the amoral, rebellious son of a farmer embattled. Instead of that tragically flawed character Hud care only for themselves, the public adored him. He was an anti-hero, especially among young people.
Newman hit a nerve in 1967 with “Cool Hand Luke”, in which he played a rebellious prisoner on a chain gang harassed by sadistic guards. A memorable scene in which Luke won a bet by eating 50 hard boiled eggs activated eating eggs competitions in colleges and among soldiers in Vietnam.
In 1969, when he was Hollywood’s most popular player, Newman together with Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, a film about two bandits who loved their lost time. The largest Western film history, the film highlighted the great comic duo of the moment. Fans loved the pair jumped from a cliff and always associate the song “Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head” with Newman’s bike stunts.
Redford said he is the most fun on a film he has ever had, and the film cemented a lifelong friendship between the two players.
In Beverly Hills
If Newman has not moved his family away from the temptation of materialism and Beverly Hills in Westport in 1962, he told biographer Eric Lax, he could never have the other things that have made his life exciting: politics, race and a home - A larger company.
“Only if you far from California that you can not take seriously” as a movie star, he says.
Throughout the jaren’60, Newman has a high profile is against the war in Vietnam. In 1968 he campaigned for antiwar candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy and was Connecticut delegate to the Democratic National Convention. The following year he and Woodward an antiwar demonstration for the U.S. Embassy in London.
Newman knew that its actions are not always popular, and he told the New York Times Magazine in 1966, “A person without character has no enemies.” Friends said he was pleased in 1973 when it was listed as No. 19 on the Nixon enemies list, arguing that it is high in the eyes of his children.
Newman argued ingenious policy, said friends, and openly admired some conservatives. In 1994, he helped his brother Arthur, a staunch Republican, leading a successful campaign for a seat in the municipal Rancho Mirage.
At the end of jaren’70, with bored, Newman fell into a slump that has paved the way for what has been called one of the most successful career transitions in the history of film.
Intrigued by the race after making the film “Winning” in 1969, Newman began shooting schedule for his racing schedule. His guidance, athletics and knowledge quickly conquered the skep tics who served in the amateur players hang around the track, “said the champion driver Mario Andretti.
“If he would have started earlier, it would be just as successful as his act no question,” Andretti said. Newman then filed his own team, Newman-Haas Indy Car Hass, Andretti ran for him for 12 years.
Blowing Inge, Newman returned to action, to the role of new and unexpected depth. Critic Pauline Kael called Newman’s portrait of a wash-up of ice hockey trainer “Slap Shot”, the 1977 comedy “American casual acting at its peak.” In the 1980s he was active in the Actors Studio in New York, funds, and act as chairman of the board.
In 1981, Newman has been nominated for an Oscar for his role in “Absence of malice”, as a businessman libeled by Sally Field’s Gung-ho young reporter, whose story led to his friend suicide.
Followed by another nomination for his portrait of an alcoholic lawyer bought by his quest for justice in 1982 “The Verdict”.
When Newman finally won an Oscar in 1986 for “The Color of Money” was neither the director nor Scorsese the best effort and was seen by some observers as compensation for the fact on the head is seen in “The Hustler”.
Want to avoid a defeat, Newman stayed home for the ceremony. Later he said of the victory: “It’s like chasing a beautiful woman 80 years. She finally relents and you say:” I’m terribly sorry, I’m tired. ”
His real life as a role model philanthropist Hollywood began just before Christmas 1980, when he and his friend AE Hotchner has a lot of dressing in a bathtub bottle for friends.
Newman was the most perfectionist in the kitchen his art, friends said. “He knew exactly how much fat is in perfect hamburger,” said Stern. “In its salads, he chopped celery exact size.”
In restaurants, Newman was called to ask for olive oil, vinegar, chopped celery, salt, pepper and mustard for its own sauce. At a time when servers at the legendary Beverly Hills restaurant the Chase would not comply, he took the salad dressing in a room with men and washed them off. “They brought the things he wanted, and he made the dressing,” says Stern.
Newman said he had never thought that the wrap will be sold at the national level, but left after Christmas were handed over to greedy, the lark became a challenge.
When it became clear that the preparation can be a profitable activity, especially with his face on the label, Newman decided that a bit of luck and the world gave him.
‘It was a spur-of-the-moment thing - “Let’s just do it and give it all away,” said his daughter Nell The New York Times in 1998.
Newman and Hotchner says spiritual labels to go with the motto “shameless exploitation in the framework of the common good”, which later became the name of their book describing their adventures in the business world.
The company has grown into a large number of products, including popcorn, and salsa, pasta sauces, marinades and Woodward “the old road Virgin lemonade.”
In 2006 he opened Dressing Room: A Restaurant to take advantage of the Westport Country Playhouse, one of Newman and Woodward’s favorite projects.
As a result of his success in business, Newman donated more than $ 250 million for 1000, including the Scott Newman Center dedicated to the fight against drugs and various Hole in the Wall Gang camps, designed for children with deadly diseases, with offices in France, Ireland and Israel and the U. S. Every summer, Newman remained at the original camp in Ashford, Connecticut, where he told stories about ghosts and staging shows with other celebrities to children who knew him as the face on the carton of lemonade.
“If I have a legacy,” he said in 2006, “it is in the camps.”
This year he turned during a meeting of parents and children in the first camp and says said: “I wanted to recognize the opportunity. The charitable institutions in many lives and the brutality of the lives of others, especially children, who may not live to deal with it. ”
Instead offer rental agents, friends say, Newman and Hotchner choose their own charities in a relaxed manner. Newman wrote a check on the spot for someone who knocked on his door saying that the local fire department, a new fire engine, “said Navasky, the Nation newspaper editor.
Despite his fears that the players the risk of corruption establishment of a premium on appearance, “Newman self worth in shape. He grew up and walked up and down the stairs until he was 80. He dipped his face in ice water or swim in a cold more when he could.
Newman has played leading roles in the sexy jaren’70 with films such as “Twilight” and continues with parties cantankerous father in “Message in a Bottle” and the TV movie “Empire Falls”. It was nominated for a Tony as manager of the scene in a Broadway revival of “our city” and an Emmy for a version recorded TV.
After the “Road to Perdition,” he has the voice for the animated feature “Cars” in 2006.
Newman has not hide his disappointment that the film has waived the “theater of the mind” for the “theater of the senses.” He regretted that the costs skyrocketing, the pressure on the actors, writers and producers who could no longer afford to make mistakes and are part of a “growing-up process.”
In 1997, he alluded, there were problems, tells National Public Radio Daniel Zwerdling that “sometimes, you start to lose your middle …. You have a collection of successful ways the characters you play …. What you try to do is get rid of these mannerisms success back to you in the heart of your own personality. ”
In 2007, Newman announced his decision to retire, saying he had lost confidence in his abilities, which was “almost closed book for me.”
In addition to Doc Hudson, the Hornets led by Newman, expressed in the movie “Cars”, he said the role of Sully in 1994’s “Nobody’s Fool” the closest he came to play themselves. Sully critics called a “classic Newman type” - an older version of a solitary spirit that keeps family and friends at a distance to protect themselves. A link with her grand-son fear opens the possibility to become more involved in an old son and the rest of the community.

“The more time Paul,” Stern said, “as he sees the folly lady on the street and offers his arms and walk back home as if it were a queen. So I will always remember Paul: the dignity of others.”
Besides his wife of 50 years, Newman is survived by daughters Susan, Stephanie, Nell, Melissa and Clea, two grandchildren and his brother Arthur.