↑ 30th Annual Academy Awards. Newman’s wife, Joanne wins Best Actress of the Year Award for her work on The Three Faces of Eve.

↑ From Somebody Up There Likes Me.

↑ in Harper.

↑ From Winning

↑ Debating Charlton Heston on nuclear power freeze.
Video of the debate

Newman on racing.

A couple quick anecdotes which I think summarize the man fairly well:

Newman’s film career almost ended with his first movie — he considered his performance in the sword-and-sandal 1954 drama “The Chalice” so mediocre he paid for a page-size ad in a Hollywood trade publication to apologize.

(From Brietbart)

Newman’s Own regularly receives — and rebuffs — acquisition offers from larger companies, and it always raises profits by more than 10 percent annually. How big can the enterprise become? To Mr. Hotchner, the idea of watching Newman’s Own double in size over the next few years is particularly appealing. ”Think of what we could do with the money,” he says.

Mr. Newman thinks this over, rocking harder on the creaking swing. ”I just want to be able to give away more than Dick Cheney got in tax relief,” he says. ”That’s what I want.” And after a slight dramatic pause, he and Mr. Hotchner burst out laughing.

(From the NY Times)

He will be missed.

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