Paul Newman

Last year, on Oct. 26, the house broke the record again when it took the $17.8 million winning bid for Paul Newman's Rolex Daytona. That watch was the star lot of the New York watch department's inaugural auction. Over all, the evening took in almost $29 million in sales, said to be the highest total for a ...

While Johnson's campaign sent members of his cabinet to Wisconsin, McCarthy brought in Paul Newman. Newman was probably the highest-profile star among the legion of celebrities lining up behind McCarthy in 1968. But Newman, who had recently received his fourth Oscar nomination for the title role ...

The watch in question was a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, bought in 1968 for Paul Newman by his wife, Joanne Woodward, and supposedly worn by the actor every day for 15 years. With its art deco numbering and so-called “exotic” dial (watch aficionados speak funny), it wasn't especially popular when ...

On International Women's Day, Thursday, Susan Sarandon gave a shout-out to Paul Newman for taking a pay cut when he found out that Sarandon was making less than her male co-stars. Coincidentally, or maybe not, at the Oscars on Sunday, Allison Janney gave Joanne Woodward credit for ...

Susan Sarandon Hollywood veteran Susan Sarandon has revealed that her “Twilight” co-star Paul Newman once gave a part of his salary to her after he came to know that she was being paid less than the male leads in the film. The 71-year-old actor said on the sets of the 1998 movie she discovered that ...

Susan spoke out about pay equality in Hollywood earlier that day during an interview with BBC 5 Live. “Emma Stone once came forward and said she got equal pay, because her male stars insisted upon it and gave up something of theirs,” Susan said. “That happened to me with Paul Newman at one point, ...

“That happened to me with Paul Newman at one point when I did a film with him ages ago.” She continued, “When they said it was favored nations — but they only meant the two guys — he stepped forward and said, 'Well, I'll give you part of mine.'” Favored nations means all actors will receive the same ...

“Emma Stone once came forward and said she got equal pay, because her male stars insisted upon it and gave up something of theirs,” Sarandon said. “That happened to me with Paul Newman at one point, when I did a film with him ages ago. They said it was 'favored nations,' but they only meant the two ...

Academy award-winning actor, style icon, salad dressing extraordinaire: there's very little Paul Newman hasn't been revered for in life and death – and it seems the Cool Hand Luke star was also ahead of the curve when it came to supporting gender equality in Hollywood, too. In an interview with BBC ...

Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon has revealed that the late Paul Newman once gave her part of his salary. It's believed to have happened when they starred together in the 1998 film Twilight, which also featured Gene Hackman. Sarandon told BBC 5 live that she discovered that her two male co-stars ...

Aside from all being ridiculously successful in their chosen field, all three are said to have struggled badly at school as teenage boys. Biographies of Branson claim the billionaire was threatened with expulsion from boarding school as a result of nocturnal visits to the bedroom of his headmaster's daughter.

At some point during my voluntary forced feeding, my friend, photographer Jesse Tinsley, mentioned the Paul Newman movie “Cool Hand Luke.” I had thought of that, too. But unlike Newman's character, I had never boasted that I could eat 50 eggs (or a sundae the size of a small dog). I'm just a guy who, ...

The “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018” added the “Newman's Own” exception to the private foundation excess business holdings rule, allowing business owners to make a charitable contribution of 100% of a business to their private foundation, and keep it there in one piece. The business must then give all of ...

Movie Weekend: Paul Newman festival, “Annihilation,” “Game Night. ... This weekend, The Redford Theatre in Detroit will honor Paul Newman with a trio of his movies, including “Cool Hand Luke” on Feb. 23. ... It's a Paul Newman Weekend at the Redford Theatre, with Cool Hand Luke at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb.

The "Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018" added the "Newman's Own" exception to the private foundation excess business holdings rule, allowing business owners to make a charitable contribution of 100% of a business to their private foundation, and keep it there in one piece. The business must then give all of ...

According to factory documentation, this Mercedes-Benz 300SL 'Gullwing' was bought by Paul Newman in 1957. And we all know the significance of an object associated with the Hollywood legend: 17m-dollar Rolex Daytona, anyone?

A sequel that arrived nine years after the original, The Drowning Pool follows Los Angeles private detective Lew Harper on a case that made me sweat from Louisiana languor. Paul Newman is sterling in the lead role, stepping easily back into a role that helped make him a marquee star in 1966. Harper ...

In fact, the iconic actress and her real-life husband, Paul Newman, played a pivotal role in Allison's career. When the Dayton native started to study acting at Kenyon College in 1978, one of the Gambier, Ohio, school's alums, Paul, returned to christen a new theater and direct a play called C.C. Pyle and the ...

The libraries on Monday announced the grant from the foundation founded by actor Paul Newman and writer A.E. Hotchner, who grew up in St. Louis and graduated from Washington University. Hotchner is now 100 years old; Newman died in 2008. Hotchner himself will benefit a bit from the gift: The grant ...

The 2018 version of Paul Newman in “The Verdict” may be Clare-Hope Ashitey in the new Netlfix drama “Seven Seconds.” At the very least, it was an inspiration for director Gavin O'Connor (“Warrior”), who told the show's star to watch the 1982 film in preparation for her role as KJ Harper. “It was interesting ...