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  Paul Newman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newman's father was Jewish (the son of Simon Newman, an immigrant from Slovakia, and Hannah Cohn, an immigrant from Poland) and his Slovak-born mother was raised Catholic and later became a Christian Scientist, although Newman himself wasn't raised in any specific religion.
Newman was one of the few actors who successfully made the transition from 1950s to the 1960s and 1970s cinema.
Newman was the visual inspiration for Hal Jordan, the second Green Lantern of DC Comics introduced in the 1960s (Silver Age).
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 Paul Newman: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Paul Leonard Newman is an American[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] actor actor quick summary:
Newman has been nominated for an Academy Award[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] nine times as an actor, EHandler: no quick summary.
Newmans own is a food company founded by actor paul newman in 1982....
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an American actor and film director.
Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, near Cleveland, to an Irish-Catholic mother and a German-Jewish father who owned a successful sporting goods store.
Paul has directed Joanne in several films, such as the 1968 film Rachel, Rachel, a film for which he was nominated for an Oscar as producer.
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 Paul Newman - MSN Encarta
Paul Newman, born in 1925, American actor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who won an Academy Award for his role in The Color of Money (1986).
Newman started acting in high school, played in summer stock theater after college, and studied at the Yale School of Drama and the Actors Studio.
Some of Newman's finest films were made in the 1960s, including The Hustler (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Hud (1963), Harper (1966), Hombre (1967), and Cool Hand Luke (1967).
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 Paul Newman at Reel Classics: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
PAUL LEONARD NEWMAN was born on January 26, 1925 in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.
Paul was a fan of the theatre as a youngster and his mother encouraged his interest.
Paul's love for acting won out and he moved his family (son Scott was born in Ohio) to New Haven, CT where he enrolled at Yale University's graduate program in acting.
www.reelclassics.com /Actors/Newman/newman-bio.htm   (778 words)

  
 Saint Paul Newman Center Fresno California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As a Newman Center, we have a special relationship with California State University, Fresno, and are blessed by the presence of many students and faculty from CSUF as well as Fresno City College and Fresno Pacific University.
Newman Center is home to nearly 1000 households and has over forty ministry groups and organizations that reach out to people of every age and walk of life.
Above all, the faith community that is St. Paul Newman Center seeks to be a loving and welcoming family that opens its arms and doors to people from all walks of life.
www.csufnewman.com   (243 words)

  
 Paul Newman Biography
He was born Paul Leonard Newman on the 26th of January, 1925, in Shaker Heights, an affluent suburb of Cleveland.
Here Paul played Lew Harper, a top-line PD called in by Lauren Bacall to find her missing hubbie, Robert Wagner appearing as her suspect pilot friend and Strother Martin as a manic cult leader.
Paul moved on to The Secret War Of Harry Frigg where, as an another incorrigible guard-house escapee, he's promoted to 2-star general and sent to break out five one-star generals captured in Italy.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/paul_newman_biog.html   (5300 words)

  
 Paul Newman
Newman's most acclaimed roles in the 60s include his aspiring pool champion in THE HUSTLER (1961), the sexually predatory ne'er-do-well HUD (1963) and the prison inmate COOL HAND LUKE (1967) (featuring the famous egg-eating challenge).
Newman continued to enjoy popular success in front of the camera, scoring at the box office with lightweight films such as BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) and THE STING (1973), both opposite Robert Redford.
Newman proved highly effective in a number of senior roles in the 1980s and 90s, his physical prowess maturing into a lean asceticism in films ranging from ABSENCE OF MALICE (1981) to MR.
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 Paul Newman Biography
Paul Newman was born on January 26th 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Newman grew up in a suburb to Cleveland called Shaker Heights where he showed great interest in acting already at high school, where he participated in the local high school productions.
Newman's performance as "Fast" Eddie Felson in THE HUSTLER could very well be his finest hour, it brought him his second Academy Award nomination, his first was for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.
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 Paul Newman - HBO Films: Empire Falls
Paul Newman: I read the book, and was fascinated by the idea of doing it without truncating the story.
Paul Newman as Max Roby in a scene from EMPIRE FALLS.
Paul Newman: Well, I think you have to see the story, and the town, in the context of the epic sense of what the river must have seen - these pictures from the 1800s, and through the 1900s, and the year 2000, how the river would see this whole thing unfolding.
www.hbo.com /films/empirefalls/interviews/paul_newman.html   (1041 words)

  
 Paul Newman
Paul Newman first took an interest in auto racing while filming the 1968 motion picture "Winning", in which he played the role of an Indy 500 driver.
NEW YORK (May 16, 1997) -- Paul Newman, the 72-year-old actor and race driver, who hasn't competed since co-driving the class-winning car at the 1994 Daytona 24 Hours of Endurance, is returning to the cockpit.
Paul Newman (1925-____) born on Jan 26 U.S. actor.
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 SOUTHERN | paul newman > biography
A collection of Paul Newman's rarer material, "Re-issue!" is the second full-length release on My Pal God by Paul Newman, and their fourth such endeavor since 1998.
Although the members of Paul Newman are still living in three different cities (Austin,Texas; Chicago, Illnois; New York, New York State), the balance is shifting towards NYC, and the group are planning to make their next album there in the summer of 2001.
The rest of the band is tinkering with this and that in between Paul Newman activities.
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 Paul Newman | Biography (born 1925)
Paul Newman has always been sensitive about his height.
Newman was so ashamed of his debut in the bomb The Silver Chalice (1954), that he took out an ad in Variety apologizing for his performance.
Paul Newman is one of the few Hollywood stars who has gotten better looking as he's got older, grown older gracefully and, yes, played parts to suit his age.
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 Paul Newman
This glossy and sophisticated romp with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward is delicious fluff.
From the opening title song by Sinatra and the early voice-over of Newman comparing a group of bargain hunting women to a herd of cattle, we know this one is going to be fun indeed.
The Nevada-based project is headed by General Leslie R. Groves (a testy Paul Newman) and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz of the TV series The A-Team), who later regretted his cooperation in the project.
www.dvd-today.com /actor/Paul-Newman/dvd.html   (633 words)

  
 Paul Newman
Paul Newman's father owned a sporting goods store, and young Newman was always interested in performing.
Newman's first television role was on the long-running sitcom The Aldrich Family, a show that started on radio, then ran on CBS-TV for several years.
Newman was also the unknowing model for DC Comics' "Green Lantern" superhero.
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 Paul Newman News
Newman won an Emmy earlier this year for his role in TV's Empire Falls Hollywood legend Paul Newman has said that his next film could be his last.
Paul Newman is probably the most universally adored movie star alive.
In 1967 Paul Newman, during his "H" phase, starred in the great Western Hombre.
www.topix.net /who/paul-newman   (714 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Biography - Paul Newman (1998) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With his striking good looks and passionate intensity, Paul Newman is the very image of the leading man. Yet his extraordinary career as an actor is just one aspect of his remarkable life.
Paul Newman is justly famed for his good looks and piercing blue eyes, but he has never been just a pretty face.
Paul Newman's best,(his spaghetti sauce is not bad either).
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 Paul Newman pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Screen legend, super star, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Newman was born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a successful sporting goods store owner.
Classically handsome and with a super abundance of sex appeal, television parts came easily to Paul and after his first broadway appearance in Picnic (1953) he was offered a film contract by Warner Brothers.
A caring and supremely generous man, he is the founder of "Newman's Own" a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which the philanthropic movie icon has donated to charity.
www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=1155   (287 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Paul Newman (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
After performing for several years in television dramas, Newman became a versatile film actor.
His enduring characterization is of an insolent, self-reliant antihero with a penchant for wry humor, as seen in The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and The Sting (1973).
Newman has directed several movies, usually showcases for his wife and frequent costar, Joanne Woodward.
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 Paul Newman Home page
It started as a possible writing job for the radio show but Paul's scripting was so visual, he was sent to DC comics, who was publishing the comic book version of the show.
By the 1980's Paul was working at DC on G.I. Combat and House of Mystery and Marvel's Disney series, Darkwing Duck and others.
During the 1950's Paul was writing between 1,000 and 2,000 pages per year.
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 Paul Newman pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia
Newman has been nominated for an Academy Award nine times as an actor.
Newman cofounded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in 1986, a residential summer camp for seriously ill children located between Ashford and Eastford in Connecticut.
For his strong support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968, Newman was 19th on Richard Nixon's enemies list.
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 Paul Newman at Reel Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One of a new breed of leading men who took Hollywood by storm in the late 1950's and early sixties, Paul Newman was nominated six times before he finally took home a Best Actor Oscar in 1986.
Newman as Ben Quick with Will Varner (Orson Welles) in THE LONG, HOT SUMMER (1958).
This Mississippi-set fiery southern romance between crude, studly outsider Newman and goody-goody school teacher Woodward was the first of their ten films together.
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 Paul Newman
Paul Newman - Paul Newman actor, director Born: 1/26/1925 Birthplace: Shaker Heights, Ohio Academy Award-winning...
Paul Newman, buddy tell how they launched salad dressing business.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Paul Newman, buddy tell how they launched salad dressing business.
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 Paul Newman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After a long wait, the fourth and finest album from Paul Newman (as in, yes, that Paul Newman, the rock band, who are in no way an "emo" band) is good enough to make you cry.
So, changes in sound and time of absence aside, everything that made Paul Newman revered by many music lovers remains intact.
For Paul Newman it's all about the buildup and the takedown, the crash and burn, and finally, redemption.” - Audra Schroeder, Austin Chronicle
www.emperorjones.com /newman.html   (268 words)

  
 My Pal God Records
The third Paul Newman full length Lp/Cd was released on My Pal God in March 2000.
Paul Newman are a band from Austin, Texas/Chicago, Illinois/Long Island City, New York.
Whomever compared Paul Newman to bands on Factory Records is a genius.
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 Paul Newman Pictures, Biography, Filmography, News, Screensavers, Videos,
Born January 26, 1925 - In a business where public scandal and bad-boy behavior are the rule rather than the exception, Paul Newman is as much a hero offscreen as on.
A blue-eyed matinee idol whose career has successfully spanned five decades, he is also a prominent social activist, a major proponent of actors' creative rights, and a noted philanthropist.
Discuss Paul Newman with Starpulse members in the forums...
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