Show J'r - Ki v - x ' v '$''"iZy V 7 ' '? INSTEPWrH: known'the next he was movie star BORN: Jm 2ft The Hustler Cool Hand Luke The 19251(1 Sting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Omiiil Kid Absence cf Malice Hud a dozen PERSONAL: others Ifhe has madeastinta it doesn't ManM come nimbly to mind He lives in Manhattan and in 1949 w mam weekendsupin Westport Conn HR RM9RIMf Joanne with his wife die actress "!PP 1 -- ? 1' r- -- tr ' iffJ S®' v&'if'-- i - - tv? i 'V-‘'SV- w '':' ' r - " tWHfrSW ? f- 'kdabalrrTw mUbhr ‘I ! ' ' : Ml In The Hustler he “ played a young pool shade out to fleece Jackie Gleason as "Minnesota Fats" Newman is - f -- V An- ir v - V: -- V' ES RAUL NEWMAN'S u V '- 1 ? -- - ' EYES REALLY are as blue they look on a movie screen He is 61 years old he drinks a little beer but when we got together a few monthsagototalk about his latest projects hair only the graying short-croppsuggested that like all of us Newman is getting older He exploded into our consciousness Grazi-an- o just 30 years ago playing Rocky in a film about the prizefighter called Somebody Up There Likes He You have the sense that Newman never apprenticed that one day he was un-ed finishing a sequel This time he9s the Woodward One of his neighbors ManfedJaaaas a a and closest friends is AE Hotdner m VWOIWIT1 Hi and feres the old drinking pal biographer 1951 of Ernest Hemingway and you suspect Papa would have liked Newman BROADWAY: too the way he liked Gary Cooper Ante (1953) another outdoorey sportsman in the -tears (1955) dich£ a man’s man" Hotchner and Newman have a little Asset AW at business: They make salad dressing and feet (1959) spaghetti sauce and popcorn This is not BabfWanta precisely what movie stars are supposed Mss (1964) to do in their spare time Newman doesn’t OSCAR u —d Hotcfa whip — NOMINATIONS: Cut an a Hot professionals duce and market it and the profits go to BuBsatVKMi itiesNewma has The Hustler an assortment of another hobby He drives automobiles 1961 Had 1963 Cant Hand very fast You are not supposed to be driving in Lake 1967 car races in your 60s but he does Last Usance at fall at age 60 Paul won a national Nates 1961 sports car race in Georgia Another driv The Verdict er said of Newman’s early races “He 1962 crashed a lot" Now he has SO first-place finishes I’ve interviewed himacouple of times up in Connecticut and in Manhattan He is courteous but distant Getting him to is a minor triumph He knows he Swn give interviews but they bore him Imentioned this to Hotchner ‘‘Hell’’ he said "we should have given him a i Tbs beer first" I’d heard all about Newman's love of beer There are jocks in light beer commercials on television who spend less time I wondered wife if it were just talk but then one evening at a private film screening he and his wife slipped in late and took seats in the bade row Newman was carrying a k By the time the movie was over all six cans were empty I am wrr Papa Hemingway would have enjoyed this guy old-tim- er six-pac- I expect the older six-pac- generation to win again c 3 g ¥ |