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Am J Public Health. 2001 February; 91(2): 196-205.

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The conclusion of the United States Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health in 1964 that excessive cigarette smoking causes lung cancer is cited as the major turning point for public health action against cigarettes. But the surgeon general and US Public Health Service (PHS) scientists had concluded as early as 1957 that smoking was a cause of lung cancer, indeed, "the principal etiologic factor in the increased incidence of lung cancer." Throughout the 1950s, however, the PHS rejected further tobacco-related public health actions, such as placing warning labels on cigarettes or creating educational programs for schools. Instead, the agency continued to gather information and provided occasional assessments of the evidence as it came available. It was not until pressure mounted from outside the PHS in the early 1960s that more substantive action was taken. Earlier action was not taken because of the way in which PHS scientists (particularly those within the National Institutes of Health) and administrators viewed their roles in relation to science and public health.

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Top 10 Cowboys and Cowgirls Announced for The American Rodeo 2021 to Compete At The World's Richest Weekend in Western Sports March 6-7, 2021 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas
RFD-TV's The American Rodeo presented by Durango Boots announced the top 10 cowboys and cowgirls in each event who will be competing at this year's richest weekend in western sports taking place March 6-7, 2021 at AT&T Stadium.

"The American Rodeo is the only place to see the top 10 best cowboys and cowgirls in the world compete under the same roof, on the same night, other than the NFR," said Randy Bernard, The American Rodeo CEO. "This rodeo is life-changing with the amount of money that is available for these athletes to win in one weekend and brings out a level of competition you just don't see at other rodeos."

The American Rodeo has catapulted careers for competitors such as Richmond Champion, who in The American's inaugural year, won the bareback riding at the age of 21 and was awarded $1.1 million dollars as he not only won the event but won as a qualifier which made him eligible for the million-dollar bonus. That year he then qualified for his first NFR. Hailey Kinsel who also competed as an American qualifier first won the 2017 American in barrel racing and continues to break records today as a WPRA and NFR World Champion.
The following are quotes from several top competitors for this year's event:
"The American is like no other!" said Shad Mayfield, Tie-Down Roper. "It's been an amazing feeling to get to compete at the highest level against the best for the highest amount of money and I am really looking forward to it this year."

"I'm glad that a rodeo like The American is sticking their neck out in the midst of what's going on to allow us to make a living," said Will Lummus, Steer Wrestling.

"I'm thankful for The American because in a time of uncertainty, they always press forward for the sake of the Cowboys and Cowgirls, helping us fulfill our American dream," said Tim O'Connell, bareback rider.

The 2021 American Rodeo Top 10 Contestants are as follows:
Bareback: Kaycee Feild, Tim O'Connell, Jess Pope, Tanner Aus, Cole Reiner, Orin Larsen, Clayton Bigelow, Richmond Champion, Mason Clements and Tilden Hooper. (Leighton Berry qualified for the Top 10, however due to injury at Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo, he is unable to compete and therefore Tildan Hooper, the #11 in the world standings from NFR is taking his place)

Saddle Bronc: Ryder Wright, Wyatt Caspter, Brody Cress, Rusty Wright, Allen Boore, Lefty Holman, Stetson Wright, Chase Brooks, Zeke Thurston, and Shorty Garrett.

Bull Riding: Stetson Wright, Ty Wllance, Colten Fritzlan, Ky Hamilton, Sage Kimzey, Roscoe Jarboe, Jeff Askey, Dustin Boquet, Brady Portenier, and Boudreaux Campbell

Steer Wrestling: Jacob Edler, Stetson Jorgensen, Tyler, Waguespack, Matt Reeves, Will Lummus, Dakota Eldridge, Jacob Talley, Blake Knowles, Bridger Anderson, and Jace Melvin.

Team Roping (Header): Colby Lovell, Luke Brown, Erich Rogers, Nelson Wyatt, Andrew Ward, Clay Smith, Dustin Egusquita, Jeff Flenniken, Clay Tryan, and Chad Masters.

Team Roping (Heeler): Paul Eaves, Paden Bray, Joseph Harrison, Levi Lord, Buddy Hawkins, Jade Corkill, Tyler Worley, Jake Long, Travis Graves, and Wesley Thorp.

Tie Down Roping: Shad Mayfriend, Marty Yates, Shane Hanchey, Hunter Herrin, Cory Solomon, Westyn Hughes, Haven Meged, Tuf Cooper, Ty Harris, and Ryan Jarrett.

Barrel Racing: Hailey Kinsel, Brittany Pozzi-Tonozzi, Jill Wilson, Emily Miller, Jimmie Smith, Stevi Hillman, Jessica Routier, Lisa Lockhart, Shelley Morgan and Tiany Schuster.

For this year's competition, the American Rodeo extended an exemption invitation to tie-down roper Caleb Smidt and barrel racer Dona Kay Rule. Due to an unfortunate turn of events last year and testing positive for COVID-19, both Smidt and Rule were sent home and unable to participate in the 2020 National Finals Rodeo (NFR) and interfered with the opportunity to be invited to compete at the 2021 American Rodeo as a Top 10 contestant. Rule accepted the exemption invitation and will be joining the Top 10 barrel racers in the world to compete for $100,000 at AT&T Stadium. Smidt, thankful for the exemption opportunity, decided to turn the invitation down and try to make the finals on his own and win a shot at the $1 million qualifier cash bonus.

The American Rodeo is known as the world's richest weekend in western sports due to its tremendous prize offering of $2.3 million. Qualifying events are held across the country, throughout the calendar year, as ropers and riders hope to compete and make it to The American Rodeo Semi-Finals and Finals in Texas.

The 11-day rodeo competition kicks off on February 25th in the Fort Worth Stockyards for slack and semi-finals and the finals take place over the weekend of March 6-7, 2021 at the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX. The American Rodeo unites the top athletes in the world from the PRCA and pits them against underdogs who advance from The American Rodeo Semi-Finals, together to battle for the biggest single, life-changing paycheck of their lives. All events will be broadcast live on The Cowboy Channel and RFD-TV.

Tickets for The American Rodeo at AT&T Stadium March 6-7, 2021 can be purchased at SeatGeek.com. Standard ticket prices range from $20-$150, encompassing four pricing tiers for every level of rodeo fan. Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, only a limited number of tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. Tickets will be sold in seating pods of 2, 4, or 6. Tickets to The American Rodeo Semi-Finals March 3-5, 2021 at Cowtown Coliseum in the Fort Worth Stockyards can be purchased at CowtownColiseum.com. Standard ticket prices range from $25-$55.

For more information and a complete listing of all RFD-TV's The American Rodeo presented by Durango Boots events in Fort Worth and Arlington, please visit www.americanrodeo.com
About RFD-TV:
Facebook: @RFDTVTheAmerican | Twitter: @RFDTVAmerican | Instagram: @RFDTVAmerican

RFD-TV is the flagship network for Rural Media Group. Launched in December of 2000, RFD-TV is the nation's first 24-hour television network featuring programming focused on the agribusiness, equine and the rural lifestyles, along with traditional country music and entertainment. RFD-TV produces six hours of live news each weekday in support of rural America and is a leading independent cable channel available in more than 52 million homes on DISH, DIRECTV®, AT&T U-Verse, Charter Spectrum, Cox, Comcast, Mediacom, Suddenlink, and many other rural cable systems. In addition, RFD-TV can be streamed online via RFD-TV Now at watchrfdtv.com, DIRECTV NOW, Roku, iOS, Android, Firestick, Apple TV, and Sling TV's Heartland Extra package. For more information, please visit RFDTV.com.

Facebook: @OfficialRFDTV | Twitter: @OfficialRFDTV | Instagram: @RFDTV

About The Cowboy Channel:

The Cowboy Channel is the official network of PRCA and the first 24-hour television network totally dedicated to western sports and the western lifestyle. Headquartered in the Fort Worth Stockyards, The Cowboy Channel also features a wide variety of "live" coverage from major western events showcasing the world's toughest and most talented cowboys and cowgirls. The network reaches 42 million homes on cable/satellite systems on Altice, Charter Spectrum, DISH, DIRECTV®, AT&T U-Verse, Cox, Comcast, Mediacom, Verizon FIOS TV, and many other rural cable systems. The Cowboy Channel can also be streamed online via The Cowboy Channel Plus at cowboychannelplus.com, DIRECTV NOW, Roku, iOS, Android, Firestick, Apple TV, and Sling TV's Heartland Extra package. For more information, please visit thecowboychannel.com

Facebook: @CowboyChannel | Twitter: @Cowboy_Channel | Instagram: @TheCowboyChannel

About AT&T Stadium:

AT&T Stadium is the largest, most technologically advanced entertainment venue in the world. Designed by HKS and built by Manhattan Construction, the $1.2 billion stadium features two monumental arches, the world's largest HDTV video board cluster, an expansive retractable roof and the largest retractable end zone doors in the world. Features of the stadium include seating for 80,000 and expandability for up to 100,000, over 300 luxury suites, club seating on multiple levels and the Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop, open to the public year round. The stadium is also home to a world-class collection of contemporary art, made up of over 92 works of art by 62 established and emerging artists displayed on the walls and in the grand public spaces of the venue. In addition to being the home of the Dallas Cowboys since opening in 2009, the stadium has hosted Super Bowl XLV, the 2010 NBA All Star Game, the annual Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, the 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four, the 2015 inaugural College Football Playoff Championship Game, the 2015 50 thAnniversary Academy of Country Music Awards show and WrestleMania 32. The venue has also played host to high school and college football, concerts, championship fights, international soccer matches and other special events. For more information, go to attstadium.com.

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It's bulls and blood
It's dust and mud
It's the roar of a Sunday crowd

Or so says Garth Brooks.

More often than not, as sung about on country radio by the likes of Brooks, the heritage and tradition of rodeo is painted as the quintessential cowboy life. The aw-shucks-All-American-George-Strait-types who work day in and day out, eeking a living underneath those Western skies, is ingrained in the history of rodeo. And while most certainly those types are plentiful, like all things American, the backstory about the world of rodeo is a little more complex than what meets the eye.

Rodeo, and the story behind it, is a blend of cultures, traditions, and upbringings all melded into this one thing they call the rodeo.

Spanish Origins

The roots of today's rodeo culture reach way back to the cattle industry of the American West, where it was originally influenced by Spanish conquistadors in the 1700s. There, rodeo inherited many of its practices from Spanish ranchers and their Mexican ranch hands, known as vaqueros. The word "rodeo" itself is derived from the Spanish word "rodear" meaning "roundup," in reference to the roundup of cattle.

As pioneers from the East interacted with the Spanish, Mexican, Californian, and Texan cowboys, they inevitably picked up many of the vaqueros' styles and traditions of working the ranch.

The blending of Anglo and Spanish-Mexican cultures led to the birth of the American cowboy era in the 1800s. Breaking horses to ride and catching cattle for branding, medical attention, and sale required roping and riding skills on the frontier ranches. In the 1820s and '30s friendly ranch-versus-ranch contests began to spring up with cowboys and vaqueros testing their skills against each other.

The Cowboy Era

It wasn't until after the Civil War, however, that the cowboy era truly began, as ranchers from the Southwest organized cattle drives to deliver cattle to trains where they would then be transported East. In their free time at the end of a drive, cowboys would hold informal competitions against each other to see which group had the best skills in riding and roping. These gatherings soon translated into competitions on display at race tracks, fairgrounds, and festivals across the West. From these initial contests, modern rodeo would eventually be born. And many of the skills showcased evolved into today's tie-down roping, team roping, steer roping, and bronc riding events.

As the railroad expanded and fencing was introduced to the West, this brought an end to the open range and left many cowboys without regular employment. With only seasonal work available, they began to participate in cowboy entertainment programs that were being established. Social occasions, like the Fourth of July, provided cowboys the chance to challenge the bronc riding and roping skills of cowboys from other ranches, and these contests soon became annual events.

The First Rodeo

Some allege that the first official rodeo was born in 1869 in Deer Trail, Colorado, when two groups of cowboys from neighboring ranches met to settle an argument over who was best at performing everyday cowboy tasks, including breaking wild horses, which is today's saddle bronc riding event.

While many consider this event to be the first rodeo, over the years, a culmination of skills and techniques from Spanish-speaking cowboys, vaqueros, and cowboys from the East combined to bring us today's modern rodeo.

Many others claim to be the first rodeo in the U.S., including Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1872; Winfield, Kansas, in 1882; and Pecos, Texas, in 1883. Still, these early contests were primarily simple displays of riding and roping skills and not the organized events now standard in today's rodeo industry.

From the 1880s through the 1920s, frontier days, stampedes, and cowboy contests were the most popular names of what we now call the rodeo. Buffalo Bill Cody and his Fourth of July Wild West show in North Platte, Nebraska, in 1882 was the first competition to offer prize money, with Prescott, Arizona, claiming to hold the "first formalized rodeo" on July 4, 1888. From there, Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1897, the Pendleton Round-Up in 1910, and the Calgary Stampede in 1912 followed as popular rodeo venues.

A Sport for All

Initially, rodeo was a fairly nondiscriminatory sport, often including Hispanic, African American, Native American, and female contestants in an era when race and gender discrimination were commonplace. Women competed in many events at mixed-gender rodeos well into the 1930s. During this time, ladies often competed against men and won in a variety of rodeo events, including bronc riding and steer roping, as well as trick and fancy roping and riding.

One of the more well-known female competitors was Phoebe Ann Moses Butler. Butler grew up in a poor family in Ohio, where she took up hunting to provide for her family after her father died. From those marksman skills developed as a hunter, she earned the nickname "Little Sure Shot" and joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show as Annie Oakley in 1885.

Rules Changing

In 1929, two events occurred that changed the course of rodeo history:

1. Well-known cowgirl Bonnie McCarroll died in a bronc riding accident at Pendleton, Oregon, leading many rodeos to drop women's contests.

2. That same year, the Rodeo Association of America was formed in an effort to bring organization and structure to the chaotic contest. It was established by rodeo organizers, and not the cowboys themselves, to standardize rules, establish a point system, monitor judges, and establish fair prize money. In large part because of McCarroll's death, the RAA was organized as an all-male entity.

On October 30, 1936, cowboys and cowgirls boycotted the rodeo in Madison Square Gardens in order to demand better prize money and judges who understood rodeo. The cowboys organized the Cowboys Turtle Association on November 6, 1939 - a name they picked because they had been slow to act, but had finally stuck their necks out for their cause. In 1945, the Turtles became the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA), which evolved into the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) in 1975.

1945 marks the year professional cowboys officially adopted the term "rodeo" for their sport. The PRCA went on to sanction the events and rules for saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, team roping, and single steer roping.

Women Rally

When Gene Autry created his own rodeo company in the early 1940s, one of his first actions was to discontinue the cowgirl bronc riding contest. With that event gone, there was little left for the cowgirls to participate in except the invitation-only sponsor girl event. Soon, cowgirl contests disappeared from rodeos nationwide.

However, it was these first sponsor contests that led to today's barrel racing.

Women realized it would be up to them to get back into the mainstream of the sport and in 1948, the Girl's Rodeo Association, now the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA), was started by a group of Texas ranch women. The WPRA was highly successful in restoring cowgirl contests to PRCA rodeos. Barrel racing was the most popular WPRA contest, and it spread rapidly throughout the country. It is now the only women's event standard at PRCA rodeos and often ranks second only to bull riding in popularity.

If not for the McCarroll tragedy and Gene Autrey, it is unlikely there would ever have been a need for the WPRA, and barrel racing would probably not exist.

Today's Rodeo

Today's National Finals Rodeo (NFR), organized by the PRCA, is the premier championship rodeo event and is held the first full week of December each year in Las Vegas. In addition to barrel racing, the rodeo consists of bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle-bronc riding, tie-down roping, and bull riding.

Bull Riding

The most popular event in the sport of rodeo is bull riding, hands down. In a twist of tradition stemming from bronc riding, bull riding initially began in the 1910s - but it wasn't until the 1930s that the larger Brahman and crossbred bulls became the norm.

The bull riding event involves a bull weighing in the realm of a ton being ridden by a cowboy using a flat-braided rope to hang on for eight seconds while his other hand remains free. If he touches the bull, the rope, or himself with the free hand he is disqualified. The cowboy is judged not only for his ability to stay on the bull, but for his ability to ride the bull well (staying balanced, staying in control, and being able to spur the bull) as well as the bull's power, agility, and bucking motion.

Bronc Riding

Bronc riding was derived from the necessity of breaking and training wild horses on the frontier and today has two different events in modern rodeo: bareback and saddle.

Bareback cowboys ride the horses without saddle or rein and ride while holding onto a leather rigging with one hand. While a bareback rider has a rigging to hold onto, the saddle bronc rider has only a thick rein attached to his horse's halter. Both events last for eight seconds and cowboys are judged on their ability to stay in control as well as their spurring technique. The horses are judged as well, with saddle broncs typically being several hundred pounds heavier than bareback horses and generally bucking in a slower manner.

Calf Roping

Calf roping is generally referred to today as tie-down roping and is another event evolved from frontier life where calves needed to be caught and secured for branding and doctoring.

In today's rodeo, a cowboy is timed as he attempts to rope a 250- to 350-pound calf from the back of a horse while simultaneously bringing his horse to an abrupt stop, consequently stopping the calf. The horse keeps the rope pulled tight while the cowboy dismounts, runs to the calf, throws it on its side, and ties three legs. Time is called after the cowboy throws up his or her hands after the tie-down, and the calf must stay tied for six seconds in order for the time to be qualified.

Team Roping

The main difference between the purpose of calf roping and team roping is the size of the cattle being roped. Team ropers work together because the steers they need to catch are often too big for one person.

The first roper, the "header," catches the steer by the horns and secures the rope around the saddle horn and changes the direction of the steer. Meanwhile, the second roper, the "heeler," ropes the steer's back feet and secures the rope around the saddle horn while stopping the horse. The event is scored based on time and was another essential skill for the original cowboy.

Steer Wrestling

Steer wrestling, also called bulldogging, is the one rodeo contest never actually practiced on the range. Bull wrestling has been known to be part of ancient traditions throughout the Mediterranean world, including Spain, and is said to have originated with Mexican contests where the cowboy would ride up behind the steer, grab its tail, and twist the steer to the ground.

The American rodeo derived its own version of steer wrestling from Black cowboy Bill Pickett, who created a different method of bulldogging steers. He would jump from his horse onto a steer's back, biting its upper lip, and throwing it to the ground by grabbing its horns. This is the only rodeo event that can be attributed to a single individual. Today, cowboys no longer bite the steer's upper lip, but the rest of the event remains the same, with the prize being given to the cowboy who can get the steer to the ground the quickest.

If you get the chance to attend one of many rodeos held all around our nation on any given Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, it truly is like Garth Brooks says:

It's boots and chaps
It's cowboy hats
It's spurs and latigo
It's the ropes and the reins
And the joy and the pain
And they call the thing rodeo

But now you know those skills, techniques, and traditions aren't just for the Anglo-Cowboy, but also for the cowgirl, the Spanish, the African American, the Native American, and all others whose cultures blended to make this great thing we call the rodeo.
Katie Murray is a lifelong promoter of agriculture and lover of good stories. She enjoys communicating the story of agriculture and of the people behind our industry.

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Wiley added that the popularity of Margaret Mitchell's best-selling 1936 book and the film's intimate Civil War love story between Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara were other factors that brought audiences out in droves.The film's $1.6 billion total outranks other classics on the all-time list like "Star Wars" and "The Sound of Music." It also tops the current #1 film, James Cameron's "Avatar," which comes in at #14 when adjusting for inflated ticket prices.

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Today marks the 75th anniversary of the biggest blockbuster in American history.

While many will give the all-time box office crown to the likes of "Avatar" or "Titanic," the actual highest-grossing film -- when accounting for inflation -- is Victor Fleming's 1939 war epic "Gone With the Wind."

"Gone With the Wind" is not just a classic of Hollywood's golden age -- it's a film that has spawned countless TV specials, tourist attractions, and enviable box office totals.

As we celebrate the film's diamond jubilee, here's how "Gone With the Wind" became one of America's favorite films.

"The greatest screen entertainment of all time!"

When "Gone With the Wind" premiered on December 15, 1939, those in attendance at Atlanta's Loews Grand Theater couldn't have predicted just how popular the film would go on to be.

When accounting for inflation, "Gone With the Wind" has made an incredible $1.6 billion at the domestic box office.

For John Wiley Jr., the author of " The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind," the film's popularity stemmed from its silver screen spectacle.

"It is Hollywood at its Hollywoodist," Wiley said. "The cinematography, the fact that it was in technicolor, the performances, the music, the costumes. It's the iconic film in Hollywood history."

Wiley added that the popularity of Margaret Mitchell's best-selling 1936 book and the film's intimate Civil War love story between Clark Gable's Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh's Scarlett O'Hara were other factors that brought audiences out in droves.

The film's $1.6 billion total outranks other classics on the all-time list like "Star Wars" and "The Sound of Music." It also tops the current #1 film, James Cameron's "Avatar," which comes in at #14 when adjusting for inflated ticket prices.

TV specials and Ted Turner

While its box office numbers may be staggering, the film's first television airing was also impressive.

When NBC first televised the film back in 1976, a record 47 percent of American households tuned in. Since the film's run time clocks in at nearly four hours, the network had to split it over two nights.

And on its second night, "Gone With the Wind" maintained its record ratings.

The film was eventually bought by CNN founder Ted Turner, who acquired the film's rights from CBS in 1987.

''This is terrific. We now have the television rights to the greatest movie ever made," Turner said at the time.

Turner, an avid fan of the film, would later make "Gone With the Wind" the first movie shown on his network "Turner Classic Movies" when it launched in 1994. (That channel is owned by Time Warner, which also owns this web site.)

Frankly, we still give a damn

Over its 75 years, "Gone with the Wind" has seen both praise and controversy.

The film's portrayal of slavery, along with a scene that involves what many feel to be marital rape, have been scrutinized by critics and fans alike.

Yet it remains steadfastly popular. In fact, the movie has even become a tourist attraction of sorts. An estimated 33,000 visitors a year head to Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell House to see set pieces, memorabilia, and artifacts from the film.

The film has also become a generational event for families, film lovers, and fans, showing that even after three quarters of a century, many still give a damn about "Gone With the Wind."

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Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for their father, a Jewish businessman who owned a successful sporting goods store and was the son of emigrants from Poland and Hungary. Newman's mother (born Terézia Fecková, daughter of Stefan Fecko and Mária Polenak) was a Roman Catholic Slovak from Homonna, Pticie (former Austro-Hungarian Empire), who became a practicing Christian Scientist. She and her brother, Newman's uncle Joe, had an interest in the creative arts, and it rubbed off on him. He acted in grade school and high school plays. The Newmans were well-to-do and Paul Newman grew up in affluent Shaker Heights. Before he became an actor, Newman ran the family sporting goods store in Cleveland, Ohio.

By 1950, the 25-year-old Newman had been kicked out of Ohio University, where he belonged to the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, for unruly behavior (denting the college president's car with a beer keg), served three years in the United States Navy during World War II as a radio operator, graduated from Ohio's Kenyon College, married his first wife, Jacqueline "Jackie" Witte (born 1929), and had his first child, Scott. That same year, his father died. When he became successful in later years, Newman said if he had any regrets it would be that his father was not around to witness his success. He brought Jackie back to Shaker Heights and he ran his father's store for a short period. Then, knowing that wasn't the career path he wanted to take, he moved Jackie and Scott to New Haven, Connecticut, where he attended Yale University's School of Drama.

While doing a play there, Newman was spotted by two agents, who invited him to come to New York City to pursue a career as a professional actor. After moving to New York, he acted in guest spots for various television series and in 1953 came a big break. He got the part of understudy of the lead role in the successful Broadway play "Picnic". Through this play, he met actress Joanne Woodward (born 1930), who was also an understudy in the play. While they got on very well and there was a strong attraction, Newman was married and his second child, Susan, was born that year. During this time, Newman was accepted into the much admired and popular New York Actors Studio, although he did not actually audition.

In 1954, a film Newman was very reluctant to do was released, The Silver Chalice (1954). He considered his performance in this costume epic to be so bad that he took out a full-page ad in a trade paper apologizing for it to anyone who might have seen it. He had always been embarrassed about the film and reveled in making fun of it. He immediately wanted to return to the stage, and performed in "The Desperate Hours". In 1956, he got the chance to redeem himself in the film world by portraying boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), and critics praised his performance. In 1957, with a handful of films to his credit, he was cast in The Long, Hot Summer (1958), co-starring Joanne Woodward.

During the shooting of this film, they realized they were meant to be together and by now, so did his then-wife Jackie, who gave Newman a divorce. He and Woodward wed in Las Vegas in January 1958. They went on to have three daughters together and raised them in Westport, Connecticut. In 1959, Newman received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). The 1960s would bring Newman into superstar status, as he became one of the most popular actors of the decade, and garnered three more Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). In 1968, his debut directorial effort Rachel, Rachel (1968) was given good marks, and although the film and Woodward were nominated for Oscars, Newman was not nominated for Best Director. However, he did win a Golden Globe Award for his direction.

1969 brought the popular screen duo of Newman and Robert Redford together for the first time when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) was released. It was a box office smash. Through the 1970s, Newman had hits and misses from such popular films as The Sting (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974) to lesser known films as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) to a cult classic Slap Shot (1977). After the death of his only son, Scott, in 1978, Newman's personal life and film choices moved in a different direction. His acting work in the 1980s and on is what is often most praised by critics today. He became more at ease with himself and it was evident in The Verdict (1982) for which he received his sixth Best Actor Oscar nomination and, in 1987, finally received his first Oscar for The Color of Money (1986), almost thirty years after Woodward had won hers. Friend and director of Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Robert Wise accepted the award on Newman's behalf as the actor did not attend the ceremony.

Films were not the only thing on his mind during this period. A passionate race car driver since the early 1970s (despite being color-blind), he was co-founder of Newman-Haas racing in 1982, and also founded "Newman's Own", a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which Newman donated to charity. He also started The Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, an organization for children with serious illness. He was as well known for his philanthropic ways and highly successful business ventures as he was for his legendary actor status.

Newman's marriage to Woodward lasted a half-century. Connecticut was their primary residence after leaving Hollywood and moving East in 1960. Renowned for his sense of humor, in 1998 he quipped that he was a little embarrassed to see his salad dressing grossing more than his movies. During his later years, he still attended races, was much involved in his charitable organizations, and in 2006, he opened a restaurant called Dressing Room, which helps out the Westport Country Playhouse, a place in which Newman took great pride. In 2007, while the public was largely unaware of the serious illness from which he was suffering, Newman made some headlines when he said he was losing his invention and confidence in his acting abilities and that acting was "pretty much a closed book for me". A smoker for many years, Newman died on September 26, 2008, aged 83, from lung cancer.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom McDonough/Robert Sieger
His movies often reflect his political views

Often played detached yet charismatic anti-heroes and rebels

He was known for his wry, puckish sense of humor, mainly off-screen.

Chosen by Empire magazine as #12 in the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. [1995]

Said that he burned his tuxedo on his 75th birthday because he was through with formality.

Said the sound he loved most is that of a V-8 engine.

Owned the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp for children with cancer and other blood-related diseases (and their siblings) in Ashford, Connecticut, and also ran a fall "Discovery" program for inner city kids, also in Ashford.

Ranked #19 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Lived in Westport, Connecticut and was known to race at the Lime Rock Road Circuit.

Had his own line of food products, "Newman's Own", featuring mainly spaghetti sauces and salad dressings. The company made more than $100 million in profits over the years, all of which he donated to various charities.

Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1990).

He was the visual inspiration for the illustrations of superhero Green Lantern/Hal Jordan (when the character was reintroduced in 1959). Newman was 34 years old at the time.

Finished second in the 1979 Le Mans 24-hour race in a Porsche 935.

He was among the celebrities on the famous "Enemies List" kept by President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Was training to be a pilot while in the United States Navy, but was discovered to be colorblind, ending his flying aspirations.

Was mentioned in La Dolce Vita (1960), in a discussion about salaries paid to film stars.

Although he played the lead male roles in the original productions of three Broadway classics near the beginning of his career - "The Desperate Hours", "Picnic" and "Sweet Bird of Youth" - Newman did not receive a Tony Award nomination until 2003, when at age 78, he was nominated as Best Actor for his performance in the 2002 revival of the "Our Town".

His father was Ashkenazi Jewish. Paul's paternal grandparents were Simon Newman, from Hungary, and Hannah Cohn, from Poland. Paul's mother was from an ethnic Slovak family, and was born in Homonna, Pticie, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Stefan Fetsko and Mária Polenak. As an adult, while Paul was not religious, he described himself as Jewish because it's "more of a challenge".

He was voted the 13th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Students at Princeton University have named 24 April Newman's Day. Students try to drink 24 beers over the 24 hours of the day. The tradition stems from a comment that Newman is alleged to have made; "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." The event is not officially sponsored by the university, and Newman stated that he would "like to bring an end to the tradition".

Stumped the United States for Eugene McCarthy during his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1968. Newman made the cover of Life magazine with a McCarthy pin on his jacket on the May 10, 1968 issue.

Was named the #1 Box Office Star by Quigley Publications in its annual Top Ten Money Making Stars poll of movie exhibitors two years in a row, 1969 and 1970. Newman had been #2 in 1968 and #3 in '67 and would rank #3 in both 1971 and 1974. Newman, who entered the list for the first time in 1963 at #9 and the last time in 1986 at #10, has made the list 17 times.

Early in his acting career, he was often mistaken for Marlon Brando. He claims to have signed around 500 autographs reading, "Best wishes, Marlon Brando".

Premiere magazine ranked him as the #6 Greatest Movie Star of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).

When Premiere magazine does a list of 24 Great Performances from each year, they often ask the actors who their idols are. Newman has been the most frequently cited idol so far.

Is one of only six actors to be nominated for acting honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over five decades (1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s). Laurence Olivier (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s), Katharine Hepburn (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s), Jack Nicholson (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) and Michael Caine (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) Meryl Streep (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s) are the others who have turned the trick.

Donated between $150 million-$175 million to charity since the 1980s.

His performance as Frank Galvin in The Verdict (1982) is ranked #19 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

His performance as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) is ranked #64 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

His performance as Luke Jackson in Cool Hand Luke (1967) is ranked #30 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains.

Ranked the #1 Box Office star of 1969 and 1970 by Quigley Publications' annual poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars. He was ranked #2 in 1968 and at #3 in 1967, 1971 and 1974. In all, he made the Top Ten list 14 times from 1963, when he entered it at #9, and 1986, when he bowed out of the Top 10 at #10. He was ranked in the Top Ten for 10 straight years from 1966-75, peaking in the Top Three from 1967 to 1971. Inducted posthumously into the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Hall of Fame in 2009.

The GI Bill got him through his first three months at Yale University. To pay tuition for the rest of his time there, he sold Encyclopedia Britannica. He claims he was very good at it.

For a Mother's Day gift, he gave wife Joanne Woodward two hours of uninterrupted driving around the roads of Westport, Connecticut that they had never seen before.

Said he did not want his epitaph to say two things: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown" and "Here lies the old man who wasn't a part of his time." (1960s).

While campaigning for the Democrats in the 1968 U.S. Presidential election, Newman would rent a Jaguar on the weekends. When he found out that opponent Richard Nixon, who was known to his naysayers as "Tricky Dick", was renting the same car during the week, Newman left a note in it saying "This clutch is tricky, so you won't have any trouble with it.".

After being asked so many times what the secret was to being married for so long to Joanne Woodward, he finally responded, "I don't know what she puts in my food".

One of the most sought after and valuable collectible Rolex watches, the early "Daytona" model, from the 1960s, is known unofficially and passionately worldwide, as the Rolex "Paul Newman", which in steel can fetch as much as $100,000 in auctions. This nickname was adopted as he sported one in film.

Supported Senator Ted Kennedy's campaign to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980.

In 2007, his auto racing team, known as Newman-Haas, became Newman/Haas/Lanigan after Chicago businessman Michael Lanigan became a partner. Later that same year, it was announced that Newman's Champ Car team was merging with NASCAR team Robert Yates Racing, and has since been known as Yates/Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. Newman said the deal "in no way lessens our commitment to open-wheel racing. We want to broaden our horizons".

He was a vocal supporter of gay marriage.

Was offered the role of Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959), which he turned down because he said he did not have the legs to wear a tunic.

Ranked #19 in Empire magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars of All Time (2007).

Became a rear gunner of a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber when his color blindness disqualified him from being a pilot.

Longtime supporter of gun control, and a member of Handgun Control Inc.

In the 1970s, long before Brokeback Mountain (2005), he was thwarted by Hollywood in his desire to star in the movie version of the best-selling novel "The Front Runner", about the love affair between a male coach and a male star runner. The project remains unmade.

Supported Al Franken's campaign for election as United States Senator from Minnesota.

Donated $1 million to "The Nation" magazine in order to keep it going.

Attended the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter on January 20, 1977.

Recorded a television advertisement for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. [June 2007]

Grandfather of Peter (born May 1996) and Henry Elkind, the sons of his daughter Melissa "Lissy" Newman and her husband Raphael "Raphe" Elkind.

Father-in-law to Gary Irving (husband of Elinor "Nell" Newman), Raphael "Raphe" Elkind (husband of Melissa "Lissy" Newman) and Kurt Soderlund (husband of Claire "Clea" Newman).

Known as an inveterate prankster, he and Robert Redford in particular played numerous pranks on each other. One time, Redford, who was also into car racing, had a beaten-up Porsche shell delivered to Newman's porch for Newman's 50th birthday. Newman never said anything, but not long after, Redford found a crate of the (now) molten metal delivered to the living room of a house Redford rented, which dented the floor. Not to be outdone, Redford then had the metal turned into an incredibly ugly sculpture and dropped into Newman's garden.

He and Frank Sinatra are the only people who were awarded a competitive Oscar, an Honorary Award and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

Once, when he was handing out punch at a Westport charity event, a dowager asked him to stir her drink with his finger. "I'd be glad to," Newman replied, "but I just took it out of a cyanide bottle.".

Newman did all of his own driving in films despite his color blindness.

Said in an interview that a film had never made any special impact on him until he saw On the Waterfront (1954).

The animated comedy Cars (2006), his last film, was the highest-grossing film of his career.

Chosen by GQ magazine as one of the 50 Most Stylish Men in the Past 50 Years.

Profiled in "American Classic Screen Interviews" (Scarecrow Press) (2010).

Like his dear friend Robert Redford, both men had firstborn sons named Scott who predeceased their fathers.

Often said that of all the films he had performed in, Slap Shot (1977) was the most fun and his personal favorite.

Attended the month long festivities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in support of the Indianapolis 500. [May 2008]

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.

Did not start training to be an actor until he was age 26.

Pictured on a USA 'forever' postage stamp issued 18 September 2015. Price on day of issue was 49¢.

The births of Newman and Woodward's daughters were announced in the Milestones columns of the Time magazine issues for 20 April 1959, 6 October 1961, and 30 April 1965, respectively. They were named, respectively, for their mother, for the first character their mother played on film, and for a character in Lawrence Durrell's novel, "The Alexandria Quartet". During her last pregnancy they had hoped for a boy so when it was another girl they chose Claire "Clea" from the Durrell novel which Joanne had been reading in the weeks before she gave birth. The birthday of the couple's eldest grandson, Peter, was announced in the Passages column of People Magazine (3 June 1996).

Pro-Palestinian advocates claimed that Newman later regretting making Exodus (1960) but no record of this exists anywhere.

A longtime vocal supporter of the Democratic Party, in a television interview his wife Joanne Woodward said that when she first met him (in 1953) he was "a Bob Taft Republican". Senator Taft was the conservative but mainstream leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate.

Became friends with future Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme when they were students at Kenyon College in Ohio in 1940s.

In May 2007, Newman announced he was retiring from acting. He had previously announced his retirement in 1995, but came back to make four more movies. Newman passed away on September 26, 2008, aged 83. A heavy smoker for thirty years, he died of lung cancer.

Was one of the many Hollywood celebrities who liked to make regular weekend visits to Ralph Helfer Africa U.S.A. Exotic Animal Ranch in Soledad Canyon, California to pitch in with the chores and play with the animals.

A significant number of the characters that he has played have first names, surnames, or nicknames that begin with the letter 'H': Captain Edward Hall, Jr. in The Rack (1956), Captain Jack Harding in Until They Sail (1957), Harry Bannerman in Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), the title character in The Hustler (1961), Hud Bannon in Hud (1963), Lew Harper in Harper (1966) and The Drowning Pool (1975), the title character in Hombre (1967), Harry Frigg in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968), Hank Stamper in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971), Henry Gondorff in The Sting (1973), Hank Anderson in When Time Ran Out... (1980), Harry Ross in Twilight (1998), Harry Keach in Harry & Son (1984) and Doc Hudson in Cars (2006).

He was the first actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for his performance in a comic book adaptation, which he received for Road to Perdition (2002).

Derek Kolstad has said that he had Newman in mind for the title role in John Wick (2014) when he originally thought of the film.

In the 1980 book "The Golden Turkey Awards" by Harry and Michael Medved, Paul won the award for "The Most Embarrassing Movie Debut of All Time" for his performance in the 1954 film "The Silver Chalice".

[responding to an interviewer's question as to why he was never "tempted" by the many beautiful Hollywood actresses he worked with] Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

[1974, on the success of his collaborations with wife Joanne Woodward] You should see us when we get back to the bedroom.

[1982] Acting is like letting your pants down - you're exposed.

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

[on philanthropy] You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

If I ever feel like I'm doing something I've done before, I scrap it and start over again.

When I realized I was going to have to be a whore, to put my face on the label, I decided that the only way I could do it was to give away all the money we make. Over the years, that ethical stance has given us a 30 per cent boost. One in three customers buys my products because all the profits go to good causes and the rest buy the stuff because it is good.

It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now - my good Lord - look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter, either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

[on Alfred Hitchcock] I think Hitch and I could have really hit it off, but the script kept getting in the way.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: "Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!" It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.

Being on [President Richard Nixon's] enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

[his advice to young actors just starting out] Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors. We make pictures and that's about all we have in common. Maybe that's enough. Wives shouldn't feel obligated to accompany their husbands to a ball game, husbands do look a bit silly attending morning coffee breaks with the neighborhood wives when most men are out at work. Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other...You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks.

Twenty-five years ago, I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

[what wife Joanne Woodward thinks of his love for racing] She thinks competitive driving is the silliest thing in the world. It is also very scary for her, and she doesn't much care for it.

The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud (1963) in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

I had no natural gift to be anything--not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches--not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

[on why he decided to stay in Connecticut] Better than Montana... and my wife and I found a nice cemetery here.

[on winning his first Oscar after so many losses] It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, "I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired".

That I survived the first film I did [ The Silver Chalice (1954)] was extraordinarily good fortune. I mean, I had dogs chasing me down the street. I was wearing this tiny little Greek cocktail dress - with MY legs! Good Lord, it was really bad. In fact, it was the worst film made in the 1950s. My first review said that "Mr. Newman delivers his lines with the emotional fervor of a Putnam stop conductor announcing local stop".

I can remember in my high school days and I kept thinking to myself, "Now, why did those actors go out in public after a certain age?" I mean, why would they wanna blow this image they'd worked so hard and allow themselves to be photographed? They should have just stayed at home and stayed young and youthful. And now it's there for everybody to look at - all our words, stuttering, and bad posture. All those things that should never happen, really. Well, times change. Yeah, it ain't so bad!

[on his long marriage to Joanne Woodward] We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.

[explaining why he accepted The Silver Chalice (1954) for his film debut] After the success of "Picnic", I had a lot of offers from Hollywood and I never accepted any of them. Finally, my agent said, "You know, they're going to keep knocking on your door and knocking on your door and at some point they're going to stop. So you better make sure you say 'Yes' before that stop occurs". That was when somebody sent me a copy of "The Silver Chalice" and I got talked into it. I knew that was going to be a bomb.

I picture my epitaph: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown."

[1970s] I think I get a very unfortunate view of the press. I think of what is written about me, about 5% of it is accurate. I'm not comfortable with them, they're not comfortable with me. I certainly am not comfortable with photographers.

[on his days as a member of the Actors Studio] I remember someone who helped me a lot in my early days. We were just rehearsing a scene and I remember she stopped me with an absolute rifle shot of a clap and grabbed my shirt and said, "You are not thinking, you are just thinking you are thinking." And if you watch actors, you can tell those who don't necessarily indicate in broad strokes what's going on, but you can really see in their eyes that they are going through a process.

I'm always puzzled by this talk about star... image. I think there's people who are writers or barbers or mechanics or race car drivers that have certain recognizable personalities, and I don't think just because they happen to be on the screen that it makes them any more exceptional.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow...

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

As long as my heart continues to beat, I think I will continue.

Acting isn't really a creative process, it's an interpretative one.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

To be an actor, you have to be a child.

[ Joanne Woodward] has always given me unconditional support in all my choices and endeavors, and that includes my race car driving, which she deplores. To me, that's love.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

Ever since Slap Shot (1977), I've been swearing more. I knew I had a problem one day when I turned to my daughter and said, "Would you please pass the fucking salt?".

I wasn't driven to acting by an inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level that I would want to. I'm just, you know, you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me.

[asked why he thought he became so successful as an actor] I have a face that does not belong to a thief.

[2007] I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

[on a $10-million donation he made to his alma mater] I owe Kenyon College a great deal. I even started my first business, a laundry service, there, and I depended on the extra $60 a week.

[on Tom Cruise] He's got a lot of actor's courage. He doesn't mind climbing up there and jumping off. It's nice to watch that.

[on Henry Fonda] If I can be like Henry Fonda, then I look forward to aging to sixty and beyond -- and not just because Hank finally won the Oscar he deserved. He was a good character actor and a good actor in the American tradition of playing variations on oneself.

[2005] It'd be lunatic to try to get into politics at my age. I don't think I'd have the stomach for it. I wish I felt a little more comfortable about the direction that we're going. It does not seem to be of the people, by the people and for the people. It seems to be about something else completely different. I think part of it is the media's fault for not being more aggressive and persistent and nasty and I think it's the people's fault for not paying attention. That's not a good combination. It allows people in government to do pretty much what they want.

Once you've seen your face on a bottle of salad dressing, it's hard to take yourself seriously.

[1994] I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious. Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore.

If anyone had ever told me 20 years ago I'd be sitting in a room with peach walls, I would have told them to take a nap in a urinal.

I have no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

I can say fairly safely that I didn't really know much about acting until I got to be in my fifties.

I felt guilty as hell about leaving my wife and children, and I will carry that guilt for the rest of my life. But the fact that Joanne and I are still together after all those years proves I took the right decision.

We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

[on Marlon Brando] I've always envied Marlon's talent, which was always so much greater than anybody else's. I feel cheated he hasn't made more films, but I understand his reason. I think he felt that acting was not a manly profession sometimes and sometimes I feel the same way. But with Marlon it's more that he's too good for any of this.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.

[on his salad dressing franchise] I've had more fun doing this than anything else I've done in a long time. But remember: it's really my way of telling Ronald Reagan that his salad days are over.

[If fans asked him to take off his sunglasses so they could see his blue eyes] Is that all you think of me?

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Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S.

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Paul Newman turned to acting after getting kicked off the football team in college. He made his Broadway debut in 1953 and began doing television and films, eventually becoming known as one of the finest actors of his time. He created a food company, Newman's Own, that donates all proceeds to charity. Newman died of cancer on September 26, 2008.