Paul Newman News

The Downtown Film Festival-Los Angeles, which runs from Aug. 12-22, will pay tribute to Paul Newman on Aug.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is, without a doubt, one of the greatest plays ever written by an American playwright.

Twentieth Century Fox is marking the 40th anniversary of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with a boxed set of that and 12 other Paul Newman movies.

Fox has again announced final specs for its 1 September Blu-ray Disc release of M*A*S*H . The classic Robert Altman comedy will arrive with a 1080p transfer, a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound mix, an Altman commentary, the film's trailer, and a set of featurettes.

Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Paul Newman Tribute Collection on 22nd September 2009 priced at $89.98 SRP.

He had piercing blue eyes and startling good looks, yet Paul Newman never settled for playing pretty boys.

Robert Redford once grew so fed up of pal Paul Newman 's obsession with car racing, he had a smashed up vehicle delivered to the late star's home as a practical joke.

Taking a cue from Paul Newman's character in "Cool Hand Luke," the Village Council last Thursday lopped off -- for now -- a parking meter proposal suggested by its police chief.

You want salad dressing? I'll give you salad dressing! Faster than you can say frisee, I headed to a party last week that would have made Peter Rabbit pant for days.

One of two sheared-off parking meters at Creek Park in San Anselmo. At the start of the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke," Paul Newman staggers down a dark street and uses a large pipe cutter to shear off parking meters while swigging from a fifth of Cutty Sark scotch.

It's hard to believe, but 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the classic film, "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid." The picture, released on Oct.

WHAT: New Yorkers will gather at Bryant Park to kick off the 17th Annual HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival Presented by Time Warner Cable on June 15th.

Not long ago, headed down Interstate 20 somewhere near Augusta, I saw a sight - not particularly unusual but thought-provoking, nonetheless.

Ms. Mentor, the Chronicle of Higher Ed 's wonderfully acerbic alternative to Miss Manners, asks readers to recommend "newish academic novels that will delight and instruct her readers," noting that Richard Russo's Straight Man is her current favorite.

Julia Roberts , Jerry Seinfeld, Robert Redford, Bill Clinton, Harry Connick Jr. and Kristin Chenoweth helped deliver some serious star power to Monday's Lincoln Center gala in New York on behalf of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps and honor the beloved, late founder of the charity benefiting children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Departments National Issues We don't need the General Motors Corporation by Mike Ferner June 8, 2009 Times are anxious indeed, but simultaneously we are face-to-face with an extremely rare chance to replace our transportation system with something we can literally live with.

PAUL NEWMAN: A LIFE By Shawn Levy Harmony Books, $29.95, 496 pages REVIEWED BY MARION RODGERS This is a true story.

Published: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 11:55 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 11:55 a.m. Near the end of the movie 'Absence of Malice,' Sally Field is asked by her replacement at the Miami Herald what was her relationship with Paul Newman .

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, both shockingly beautiful, spar in this sanitized yet terrific 1958 adaptation.

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is coming to London. Producers said Wednesday that an all-black production of Tennessee Williams southern tragedy that ran on Broadway last year will open in the West End in December.