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.)