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Share + Nov 7, 2009 1:00 am US/Mountain JOHN PEEL, The Durango Herald DURANGO, Colo.

Thanks to a handful of newly released DVD and Blu-ray titles, you can visit Philadelphia and its suburbs without ever leaving your couch.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 2:20 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 2:20 p.m. I'll buy anything Paul Newman wants to sell me, even though he died last year.

The divorced couple would be played by . . . Demi Moore and Bruce Willis . "Parade" magazine put together a list of the most giving celebrities of 2008.

Good communication is a reflection of your commitment to it. Dona t take it for granted, work hard at it, and reap the rewards.

Paul Newman was the most generous US celebrity of 2008, donating $21 million to good causes, according to The Giving Back Fund.

At the world premiere of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 40 years ago, Robert Redford and Paul Newman DRA '54, dressed in elegant black suits, graced a red carpet - not in Hollywood but in New Haven.

This richly quotable, thoroughly enjoyable late-Sixties classic stars a pup-young Paul Newman as the prototypical slacker of the title.

Paul Newman took out ads apologizing for being in The Silver Chalice . Hockey teams spend millions hoping to lift one.

Actress Patricia Neal, who won an Academy Award opposite Paul Newman in "Hud, " will perform in "A Christmas Memory" at the Auburn Public Theater in December.

It is sad, then, to learn of the vice-ring connections, the arms-running, the addiction to Twinkie bars and, worst of all, the fact that he and Robert Redford nailed that poor actress to the handlebars for the famous bicycle scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .

He was so understated, so removed from the Hollywood social swirl, so reluctant to have his mug splashed on the tube that it is easy to forget Paul Newman, who passed away last week at 83, was one magnificent actor.

"What we have here is failure to communicate." This famous line from the Paul Newman movie "Cool Hand Luke" has become almost the mantra of organizational problems.

Twilight Stars on Empire Magazine's List Empire Magazine has their 100 Sexy Stars of 2009 list out, and unsurprisingly Twilight cast members are on it.

Fans of the playwright Tennessee Williams have been shouting for Stella this weekend in Clarksdale, Miss.

More Stellaaahhh!!! Festival honors Tennessee Williams October 15, 2009 12:09 PM EDT CLARKSDALE, Miss.

Paul Newman stars in the 1961 classic, "The Hustler," screening outdoors at 7:30 tonight in La Placita Village, 110 S. Church Ave.

What: Animator Bill Plympton, showing the short film "Horn Dog" When: 3-5 p.m. Saturday Where: Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend Cost: $9 online in advance, $10 at the door Contact: 541-388-3378 or www.bendfilm.org Other events and topics In addition to animator Bill Plympton, BendFilm Festival will host several other film industry ...

Released the same year as Easy Rider , this willfully frivolous bubble-gum Western from 1969 might be the Woodstock to the former's Altamont: It's tuned in, turned on, and not much else.

Slyly leading up to the deal she wanted to make, Hopper laughingly told the young Newman about how Errol Flynn, angered about an item she put in a column about him, appeared on her doorstep.