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Actor Paul Newman died Friday at his farmhouse in Westport, Conn. surrounded by friends and family. Newman was fighting a diagnosis of Cancer for more than a year. Paul Newman portrayed boxer, hustlers and cads in more than 60 films over six decades. He was the popular boxer Rocky Graziano in "Somebody up There Likes Me" (1956), a drifter in "The Long Hot Summer" (1958), and "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962, pool shard Eddie Felsen in "The Hustler" (1961) and its sequel "The Color of Money" (1986), an amoral rancher in "Hud" (1963) and bank robber in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969). Mr. Newman also started "Newman's Own" the food-product company he started in 1982 with a salad dresssing the actor concocted with Hotchner in Westport that now includes pasta sauces, lemonade, organic foods and wine. Paul Newman will be missed. He was 83 years old. |
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