The film star and director Paul Newman says that he has retired from acting but could be tempted back by one last great role. Detached from Hollywood, he lives in Connecticut and winters in Golden Beach, Florida. Nominated for ten Oscars in five different decades from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) through to Road to Perdition (2002), Newman won an honorary Academy Award for career achievement in 1985. He founded the Newman’s Own line of food products, on which his face appears, in 1982. He quipped: “The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.” He donates the proceeds, after tax, to charity and the donations are now approaching $200 million in total. He supports the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut, a summer camp for children with cancer and other blood-related diseases, and their siblings. He married his second wife, Joanne Woodward, in 1958 and once famously replied when asked about adultery: “Why fool around with hamburger when you can have steak at home?” Paul Newman is 81 today.
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