Who is Paul Newman?
Paul Newman is widely recognized as one of the great actors, and perhaps one of the “last great actors,” as stated in the New York Times. He is often considered the natural successor to actors like Cary Grant, and his career, which spanned just over five decades has produced many examples of his craft that exhibit great range, from work in films like Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to his last screen appearance in 2002 as a menacing but strangely likeable mob boss in The Road to Perdition, and then his beloved voice acting work in the film Cars. Paul Newman was born on 26 January 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. He showed an early interest in both acting and sports. When not playing high school football, he participated in high school plays. Newman earned a college degree from Kenyon College in 1949, and married his first wife during this time (the pair had three children). In the early 1950s, he joined Yale University to study directing but was unable to continue at Yale
A Malawai businessman on his way from Zambia to Botswana for a retreat was even more elucidating. What did he know about Madonna, Kabblah and their newish charity, Raising Malawi? “I’ve never heard of it. Of course, we know about Madonna trying to adopt the baby.” He laughed. “It’s ridiculous.” Malawi, mind you, is a small, impoverished nation. If anything is having an effect, this man would know it. “The Clinton Foundation we know about,” he said. “They’re very good. And Bill Gates. We know about him.” Nearly all Africans polled in Botswana and Zambia seemed mystified in regard to Jolie and Pitt, and others. If these people are doing something, it hasn’t traveled to these provinces. In both countries we visited villages that lack electricity of any kind, have little access to water and are absent of schools. There is no Habitat for Humanity, the organization that builds homes in the U.S. and has been so effective on the Gulf Coast helping victims of Katrina. The houses we saw were hut
