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Paul Newman
September 29, 2008
NEWMAN'S BROAD INFLUENCE
Even conservative Muslim Iran, which would not usually
concern itself with reporting on a Western film star,
marked his death. Two pro-reform newspapers displayed the
actor on front pages while Iran's state media also reported
his death.
The Etemad newspaper, published Newman's picture, saying
"Fading away the last classic star" and the Kargozaran
daily said "End of the blue-eyed boy."
In Italy actress Sophia Loren, who appeared in the film
"Lady L" with Newman, called the news "a blow."
"When such important personalities die, one despairs and
thinks that, little by little, all the greats are
disappearing," she told the Il Messaggero daily.
Israeli actor Haim Topol, who Newman helped to set up the
Hole-In-The-Wall camps for children with incurable
diseases, called him a "dear human being."
"He busied himself with the professional rather than with
PR," Topol told Israel Radio. "His main motto was, 'If you
do not exploit your success in order to improve things in
the world, then you are really wasting it'."
Paul Leonard Newman, known as "PL" to friends, appeared in
more than 50 movies, including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,"
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."
He earned nine Oscar nominations for acting and won the
best actor award for 1986's "The Color of Money." 
  
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