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September 29, 2008

Paul Newman, 83, Dies
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And the Oscar-winning actor, philanthropist and activist Paul Newman has
died at the age of eighty-three. His films included The Hustler, Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Color of Money. Newman was also a
longtime antiwar, anti-nuclear and women’s rights activist. Paul Newman
once said being named on Richard Nixon’s enemies list was the “highest
single honor I’ve ever received." In 1969, he spoke out in favor of the
Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.

Paul Newman: “We’re here to support one of the main themes of the
moratorium, which is business as usual. We are actors, but I don’t
remember that anybody asked us to give up our citizenship papers when we
became actors. And so, we’re here obviously as citizens protesting what
we feel is the tragedy of the Vietnamese war. So, we are asking,
respectfully, that people just don’t go to our films on November 14th.”