September 14, 2000

Paul stands up during the actors' strike. Click here, to read more.

July 2000: Ancestral Voices

Paul Newman to star on stage in ANCESTRAL VOICES, a gently comic 1940s growing up tale, seen from the perspective of a young boy as he deals with his grandparents' divorce. Also starring Joanne Woodward.

July 18-22, 2000 at the Westport Country Playhouse, in Connecticut, Monday through Saturday evenings, 8:30pm; matinees Wednesday 2pm and Saturday 5pm. Tickets $10-$35. Subscriptions for the full theatre series, offering prime seating, still available. For more information visit the Playhouse web site at westportplayhouse.com or call the Box Office at (203) 227-4177.

Vanity Fair's Hollywood

Excerpt from Vanity Fair's Hollywood (Book): "Most proud of being number 19 on Nixon's enemies list, he is in some other top 20's and probably doesn't pig out on his signature line of philanthropic food stuffs. Durably handsome and blue eyed from The Hustler and Hud through Cool Hand Luke and obviously intending to stay that way thereafter (Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, The Sting). He made a brave transition through nine Academy citations and three awards, from Newman to old (most notably in Absence of Malice, The Verdict, The Color of Money and Nobody's Fool). "

April 2000

Paul graces the cover of this month's Biography magazine. Check it out, it's got quite a spread on the man...the myth...the legend...

January 31, 2000

People Magazine

"I'm gradually retiring from racing," Paul Newman, then a spry 73, said in 1998. "It's been difficult for me to give it up." How true. Newman turns 75 on January 26, and plans to celebrate by racing a Porsche next month at Daytona, where last year's average speed at the 500 was 161 mph. Although Newman crashed into a tire barrier at a January 6th practice, injuring his ribs, he won't quit. The accident? "I got over confident on a fresh set of tires."

December 14th, 1999

Okay, it's been there since 1963 but I've finally gotten around to uploading the hands and feet to the site. Take a look.

January 26th, 1999

Paul turns 74! Please join me in singing.....

January 12th, 1999

Just caught a glimpse, (very brief, don't blink, you'll miss it) of Paul in the new Hootie and the Blowfish video "Only Lonely" for the upcoming movie "Message In A Bottle". Let's pray PN doesn't spend too much time in that ridiculous hat... For more info on "MIB" click here "MIB" opens on February 12th, 1999.

August 19th, 1998: Paul in the Great White North

This Paul sighting comes from Debbie and Beemer in Montreal, Quebec, where "Where the Money Is" is currently shooting. Paul apparently plays a patient in an old age home. The film co-stars Linda Fiorentino.

March 26, 1998

BEAVER, Utah (AP) - Paul Newman wants to renovate the tumbled-down birthplace of Butch Cassidy, with help from the state of Utah. Newman gave one of his most memorable movie roles as the outlaw in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Cassidy, the alias of Robert LeRoy Parker, was born more than 130 years ago in this southern Utah town of 5,000. Author Aaron Hotchner, a partner in the charitable Newman's Own Foundation, said he saw a picture of the rickety cabin on the Internet and got the idea to run it as a museum with artifacts from the outlaw's life and times. He said the cabin's owner likes the idea. Hotchner said he and Newman want to give a grant to the state for fixing up the place. "We stand ready to try to make it a historic place, if it is feasible," Hotchner said. "But there hasn't seemed to be any response, and in the meantime it's deteriorated more," said the writer known for works including "King of the Hill." Wilson Martin, the associate director of the state historical society, was out of his office Wednesday and unavailable for comment.

ed Note: huh, I've stopped in Beaver several times after this article was printed and never realized the history there!

March 1998

Paul appears in Vanity Fair magazine's annual "Hollywood Issue" labelled as "The Original" - photographed by Annie Liebowitz on February 8th, 1998 while taking his daily dip in the stream near his Westport CT home. (Connecticut-February-water? Nuff said.)

March 12th, 1998

CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) - Nature has taken top billing over Paul Newman and Kevin Costner. Chilmark's Conservation Commission turned down a Warner Bros. request to film scenes for "Message in a Bottle" on Martha's Vineyard. The studio had asked to build a temporary 3,000-square-foot house on stilts in the dunes near Chilmark Pond. The request was approved by state environmental officials, but the conservation commission was concerned about the grass on the beach. Filming was to begin by April 1, and commissioners were afraid the trampled grass would not have time to grow before hurricane season. "The actual letter of the law is very strict: There is to be no alteration of a sand dune that would weaken it to storm erosion," Conservation Commission Chairman Richard Steves said. Lisa Rawlins, a Warner Bros. spokeswoman, said the movie likely will be shot elsewhere in Massachusetts. "There are a number of other places that we are looking at in Massachusetts." It's not the first location flap for the movie, which has Newman playing Costner's father. The studio bid Tangier Island, Va., adieu after the Town Council sought script revisions in exchange for shooting provisions. Some members objected to drinking, sex and cursing in the movie.

GOOD MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

(reprinted from:) Boston Herald Mon, Feb 23 1998

Our hearts have been a-flutter ever since our Martha's Vineyard spies rang in to report that location scouts from the Kevin Costner-Paul Newman flick "Message in a Bottle" were out scoping beaches and docks on the Rock the other day. Word is, production on the Warner Bros. flick,which also stars "She's So Lovely" gal Robin Wright Penn, would start in late spring. But who cares about her? It's Kevin and Paul we're panting over!

REPOSTING THE OLD BLOG POSTS

In the effort of self-preservation, I've decided to cut and paste all the old blog postings from the geocities blog since it's now shutting down. *Sniff* The end of an era! Here's hoping Google stays afloat long enough for me to figure a way to back up more conveniently.