Showing posts with label 2000. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2000. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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."