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- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -0/+24The man had balls.
1- All of the Newman's Own proceeds go to charity
Paul Newman’s line of specialty foods began in 1982, when he started bottling his own salad dressing in old wine bottles. By 1987, the company was experiencing an annual growth of 20%, and two years later they reported an astonishing 16% pre-tax profit -- substantially higher than the rest of the food industry, which averaged just 3.4%. Today, the company’s wide range of food products -- famously free of artificial ingredients or preservatives -- is available in over a dozen countries.
However, Paul Newman himself enjoyed precious little, if any, of the after-tax profits. He personally distributed 100% of those profits to thousands of charities, totaling around $250 million at last count.
2- Paul Newman finished 2nd in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race
The association with auto racing is likely something you already knew about Paul Newman. It all began around 1969, as the actor prepared to portray a driver in the somewhat forgettable film Winning. Given high-performance training at the Watkins Glen Racing School in New York, Paul Newman was instantly hooked on the sport, and his greatest achievement as a driver would come a decade later.
In 1979, Paul Newman was one of three drivers with Dick Barbour Racing, a team that participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, an endurance race set in Northwestern France that dates back to 1923. Driving a Porsche 935, Paul Newman, Dick Barbour and Rolf Stommelen averaged an admirable 170.33 km/h (105.8 mph) over 4,088 km (2,540.2 miles), placing 2nd overall.
3- Paul Newman was on Nixon's infamous enemies list
In 1971, President Nixon’s chief counsel, Charles Colson, put together what was meant to be a private list of Nixon’s political enemies, the purpose of which was to establish how they could “use the available federal machinery to screw” their political enemies. The list began with 20 names (it later exploded into thousands), and at No. 19 Paul Newman was listed.
Newman’s inclusion was a result of his "radical" and "liberal" causes, and because of his involvement in anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy’s unsuccessful bid for the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination.
Celebrities added later included the always-devious Carol Channing and New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath, who posed such a threat to Richard Nixon that he’s erroneously listed as a member of the Giants
4- Paul Newman celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary
Celebrity marriages are typically a joke, ending quickly in public accusations and costly divorces. It's little surprise that Paul Newman was a towering exception.
On January 29, 1958, Paul Newman married actress Joanne Woodward. It was her first marriage, his second. They had three daughters and remained together until Paul Newman’s passing, a spectacular 50 years later in 2008. Not only that, but they worked together on over a dozen films. Paul Newman’s often-quoted response to monogamy surely won him legions of female fans already love-struck by his talent, looks and fame: “Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home?”
5- Paul Newman sponsored a first amendment award
From 1993 through 2006, Paul Newman handed out the $20,000 P.E.N./Newman’s Own First Amendment award via the P.E.N. American Center to “a U.S. resident who had fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word.” Some of the awardees included librarians who stood up to the FBI, school teachers who defied attempts at censorship and journalists who blew the whistle on corporate corruption. The award was succeeded in 2008 by an award equal in spirit named after writer Katherine Anne Porter. - Erythroxylum, on 09/28/2008, -0/+15None of those facts are as interesting as the one that he was a Navy veteran and fought in WW2. And that the reason he didn't get killed during the kamikaze attacks on the ship he was assigned to, the USS Bunker Hill, during the Battle of Okinawa was that he was delayed by his pilot's ear infection.
Newman, as well as being a *****-hot leading man and immensely handsome, was part of an era when Hollywood was populated by war heroes and patriots, as opposed to the metrosexual, whiny, seditious, any-discernible-talent-a-matter-of-debate non-entities (with a few notable exceptions) of today. - BeforeCalvin, on 09/28/2008, -3/+16See, Death himself was too much of a coward to come personally for Paul Newman, because he knew Paul Newman would kick his ass.
So Death had to send Cancer, to which Paul Newman said "hold on buddy, I'm gonna snog my wife on our 50th and there is piss all you can do about that"
So out of respect for Paul Newman, Cancer waited.
RIP. - muleskinner, on 09/28/2008, -0/+9“Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home?”
Only Newman could say that and actually get approval. If I said that the response would be "OH SO NOW I'M A COW?!?!"
RIP Newman, you were one hell of man. - MCA2142, on 09/28/2008, -2/+9The guy just died. Show some respect.
He's done a lot a good, and there is nothing bad about that. - inactive, on 09/28/2008, -0/+6The man was a legend, sorry to him go. He was great in cars, one of his last roles.
Good bye, Fast Eddie - we'll miss you. - lafinachu, on 09/28/2008, -0/+5Interesting info about Paul Newman. I didn't realise he gave all the profits from Newman's Own to charity. He really was a star in every sense of the word.
- arizonabay, on 09/28/2008, -0/+4Wow. You remember really incorrectly. None of those people were on the infamous enemy list assembled by Colson. Einstein? Huh? He died in the early fifties; even Nixon's paranoia didn't extend far enough to include 20 year old corpses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_Lis ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_list_of_Nixon_ ... - inferno10, on 09/28/2008, -0/+3I poured some Newman's Own ranch dressing on the ground to honor his memory.
- lemercier, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2best salad dressing ever. rip. there was a great article on Newman in Esquire mag awhile back. gotta go dig up the link....
- nickrct, on 09/28/2008, -1/+3The guy is a legend here in Westport, CT. He went above and beyond to make sure Joe Lieberman would not win the democratic nomination for senator last year, doing public service ads paid from his own dime (which he never does). Only to see shady Joe switch himself to an independent after his loss and got all those republican votes. The guy was politically active when it mattered most.
- riptor666, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2Sounds like he was born in the wrong century, there are hardly any men like this anymore chivalry and honor are dead.
- gregsmamma, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2i knew it.
- MCA2142, on 09/28/2008, -1/+2He is legend.
- esus4, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1Actually he was a liberal. If he were a libertarian he would have kept some, or all of the money from the salad dressing for himself.
- brownsound00, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1well said.
- inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Not a libertarian, you libertard, he's a liberal! ROFL
- greenroom628, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1but nobody can eat 50 eggs like he can....
- maxjames007, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1RIP
J - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+16) Newman was an *****.
Oh wait, i think we already all knew that... - goreyend, on 09/28/2008, -1/+2RIP
"Suzanne sucks pussy! Hey Hanrahan she's a dyke! I know, I know! She's a lesbian, a lesbian, a lesbian!" - uskomaton, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1R.I.P. Paul Newman
I knew all of those btw, so I should bury this, but I think I just won't digg it. - inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1I hope the people of CT would dump Joe Lieberman off their ballots on his reelection bid. I can't imagine why the Democrats accept this political butterfly bred in butter and flies back into their caucus. He should have been dealt with by excommunication!
http://www.martinworldwide.net/pages/mortgage_home ... - Tartooob, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
- Abomonog, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1Yeah I was wrong about Einstein. Should remember to reply only after 3rd cup of coffee. :) However, your lists are incomplete as it does not mention any one from the science world, virtually all of whom Nixon hated and regarded as enemies.
Nixons list of enemies included thousands. And BTW. He WAS that paranoid.
Anyone who wants to firebomb a think tank over some documents has serious paranoia issues.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/richa ...
First line is sarcasm. But listed is a few enemies that did not make Wiki. - FLMarijuana, on 09/28/2008, -1/+26. He was a Libertarian.
- rmmcclay, on 09/28/2008, -2/+2That was probably 3.2 beer. Michelobs go down easy. Water.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -1/+1Amen!
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -0/+0That wasn't Will Smith it was bad CGI.
- datdamonfoo, on 09/28/2008, -0/+0He was a Kenyon alumnus, just like me!
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -1/+1People did care about him, you on the other hand....
- Abomonog, on 09/28/2008, -3/+3This fact tells you more about Nixon than Newman.
If I remember right Frank Zappa also made the list as did Einstein and Edward Teller (Head physicist of the Manhattan Project). Well... Actually if you were Jewish and famous at the time Nixon had you on his list. - vtydev, on 09/28/2008, -0/+0:)) a cool definition thanks.
- alvarobernal, on 09/28/2008, -1/+11. I knew these things.
2. Two pages...really? - esus4, on 09/28/2008, -0/+0Dug for great Slapshot reference.
- ks136, on 09/28/2008, -1/+1Knew all that. Dugg it anyway.
- greenroom628, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1if you don't care, don't digg, don't click, and don't comment.
- smacksaw, on 09/28/2008, -4/+3#6 (according to my mom): He was a legendary drunk
My mom was a flight attendant, and she said the one and only time she had Paul Newman on a flight he drank every bottle of beer in first class. When the flight was over, he asked for some more for the road, so she cleaned out coach and gave him some for the road. In the 6-hour LAX to PHI flight he downed 12 Michelobs and took 6 more with him. However, he did sign in excess of 20 autographs for other passengers (something his wife, not on the flight ever let him do).
That's some serious drink tolerance if you can pound 12 beers in 5 hours (no drinking during takeoff/landing) and then drive yourself with 6 more for whatever reason. We'll think of him for his acting and food condiments, but my mom will remember him as a drinking legend. - Relikh, on 09/28/2008, -2/+0Will Smith would disagree.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -2/+0That was Charlton Heston in Omega Man...
- MrChunks, on 09/28/2008, -2/+0A legend.
- renbot, on 09/27/2008, -9/+43- Paul Newman was on Nixon's infamous enemies list
- Jyaif, on 09/28/2008, -20/+6Inaccurate: 5 things you didn't care about.
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