The most famous steel blue eyes are colour-blind. As Paul
Newman discovered when he failed his medical to become an air-force
pilot
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Paul Newman is suffering from lung cancer, according to
media reports. Newman now 83, has been suffering from ill health for many months.
In May was forced to pull out of directing a production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men. Friends of the actor saying the former chain-smoker has been diagnosed with lung cancer at the New York’s Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, a few hours drive from his Connecticut home, where he lives his wife Joanne Woodward.
Paul
Newman Voted Best Actor Ever :
Paul Newman was voted the greatest film actor of all times,
according to a survey of film experts.
The man with the most famous blue eyes in
Hollywood
topped the list
based on such criteria as box-office success, Oscar nominations and
acting range.
Oscar-nominated for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(1958) The Hustler (1961)
Hud (1963) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Absence of Malice (1981) The
Verdict (1982) Finally winning in 1986 for The Color of
Money. Newman unfazed stored his only Oscar. However, he will admit to the award for his directorial debut,
Rachel, Rachel (1968) when his won the New York Critics Prize
Born
Paul Leonard Newman was born in
Shaker Heights
,
Ohio
,
26 January 1925
, the second son of Arthur and Theresa Newman. He attributed his good
looks to his mixed heritage of being half Jewish (father side) and half
Christian (on his
mother’s side.) Newman was so disgusted with his debut performance in The Silver Chalice (1954) that he took out press adverts, garlanded
with a funeral wreath to persuade people to avoid it. It had an
adverse effect when crowds flocked to the cinema much to Newman’s
dismay
Father to three children, Scott, (who committed
suicide) Susan and
Stephanie, with first wife Jackie Witte and three daughters, Nell,
Lissy and Clea, with Joanne Woodward. They married in 1958 and live in Westport,
Connecticut Since the drug death of his son, Newman has donated the proceeds from
his own recipe salad dressings and foods to the Scott Newman
Foundation. He also represented the
USA
at the 1978 UN Conference on Nuclear Disarmament.
The press describes Newman as
"A
cool sexuality that is unique in American cinema." Newman retorts with,
"My
spaghetti sauce out-grosses my films."
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Tony Curtis returns to the big screen
as an elderly Jewish patient who dishes up wise words in David & Fatima
Tony Curtis and Monroe Famous sex
scene in Some Like it Hot 1959
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Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, June 3, 1925, in the Bronx, NY. Tony's parents were Hungarian immigrants. After he completed high school, Curtis enlisted in the US Navy in 1943 (during World War II). He received the Purple Heart after being wounded in action during the invasion of Guam in 1944. Curtis received an honorable discharge in 1945 and then got into acting. His debut film was City Across the River (1949). Tony's most memorable films include: Some Like It Hot, Spartacus, Houdini, The Great Race, and the Boston Strangler.
Some Like to Hot
(Interview with Tony Curtis)
Originally
the studio wanted Frank Sinatra instead of Jack Lemmon to play opposite
you.
Yeah. Billy Wilder told me he wanted to get Frank Sinatra, and Mitzi
Gaynor for the girl. Then about a week later Billy told me he wasn't
going to use Frank. He said Frank would only be trouble. And he said he
wanted to get Marilyn instead of Mitzi, even though everybody was
warning Billy that Marilyn was going to be a lot of trouble too. He
didn't care. He wanted Marilyn. He wanted her for that love scene with
me.
Was
Marilyn Monroe difficult to work with?
Everybody quotes me as saying that kissing Marilyn was like kissing
Hitler. I never said that. I said kissing Marilyn was like f---ing her,
the way she would grind against me. She was difficult.
Showing up late. Spending all morning on one or two lines of dialogue.
There was nothing laid back or amusing about Marilyn on that movie. She
was drinking a lot on the set. I know she was drinking champagne out of
coffee mugs when we were doing that scene [on the train] because she spilled
some on me.
It must have been something. You
got to kiss Marilyn Monroe.
Oh, I did more than kiss her. We knew each other way before then. I met
her in 1949. She was just starting out. She was wearing see through
blouses back then. She was luscious. I drove her home from the studio
one day in this Buick that I had, and then we ended up going out for
about four or five weeks after that. We saw each other quite regularly.
But we knew it was never going to work out between us. Why
not?
Well, you know, rubbing and kissing doesn't mean you're going to fall madly in love.
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