"I think it's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are", said Paul Newman in his last interview.
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an Academy Award–winning and seven-time Academy Award–nominated American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.
Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of October 2008, these donations had exceeded US $250 million.
On September 26, 2008, Newman died at his longtime home in Westport, Connecticut, of complications arising from lung cancer.
Very few individuals to raise that kind of money to poor people in our present time. Good thing he has done, long he will last in our minds.
Read here the last interview with Barbara Walters on ABC News:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Story?id=5903459&page=1
Everyone is invited to comment here and write some few words in commemoration to Paul Newman.
Source: Wikipedia , Abc news
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Paul Newman, the philanthropyst actor died
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it's hard not to admire Paul Newman for putting his money to work in such productive ways, such as his Newman's Own line--high quality stuff and the proceeds go to good causes... very smart.
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