He won one Oscar (The Color of Money) and was nominated nine other times. He was prouder of his racing victories, his progressive political commitment (landing on Nixon's Enemies List), and, of course, his exemplary charity work. Newman's Own Salad Dressing? Levy devotes some lively pages to its evolution. For years, Newman had been interrupting fancy restaurant meals to whip up on the spot a salad dressing from scratch: olive oil, red-wine vinegar, chopped garlic, and onions. One day, he bottled some to give as presents while going Christmas caroling. The rest is culinary history.
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For some of us who admired Paul Newman, what we most appreciated was humanity that transcended his physical appeal and made him the man we’d love to have known better.
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Sad news got to P+J about the passing of American legend Paul Newman.
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Johnny Carson was revered for his impeccable comic timing. It was "so precise," wrote one newspaper in his obituary, "that we wouldn't be surprised to find buried in his skull a quartz crystal." And why might that be? Perhaps because Johnny Carson was a drummer. In drumming, after all, timing is everything.
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John Huston had such a long, illustrious career as a film director — just a few years short of half a century — that any series in his honor that isn’t comprehensive has to feel truncated.
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With Snakes on a Plane and World Trade Center opening on the same day, this summer won’t be offering the usual escapist fare.
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Here’s my favorite movie trivia question: what living film director can claim the earliest extant film? The answer: Portugal’s Manoel de Oliveira, born in 1908 and still directing.
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