Word is that one of the greats is is losing a fight with lung cancer.
Movie star > Paul Newman > has quietly turned over the entire value of his ownership in Newman’s Own – the company that makes salad dressing and cookies – to charity.
Completed over a two-year period in 2005 and 2006, the amount of his donations to Newman’s Own Foundation Inc. comes to an astounding $120 million.
This is unprecedented for any movie star or anyone from what we call Hollywood. Of course Newman and actress wife Joanne Woodward have never been Hollywood types. They’ve lived their lives quietly in Westport, Conn., for the last 50 years. (They were married in January 1958. And people said it wouldn’t last!)
Classy guy.
Here he is with dog & wife in the year they married.
Karl Hass! I use to listen to him while driving around in the desert… oops! wrong Carl! I heard Newman years ago describing what it was like to be able to provide help to various charities, it was obvious it is a very fulfilling vocation and everything else he did was to support that vocation. I liked “Exodus” and “Paris Blues,” mostly for the music and that pretty blond girl in Paris Blues, what was her name…?
