Paul Newman

 Paul Newman was blessed with movie star good looks, so it was no surprise that he became a movie star in the late 1950s with movies including three that were released in 1958: "The Left-Handed Gun," "The Long Hot Summer" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Newman was not just coasting on his handsome face, but possessed real acting talent. Indeed, he received the first of his eight Academy Award nominations as Best Actor for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano discuss Newman's long career in this podcast episode. Among the films they single out are "Hud" (1963), "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), "Absence of Malice" (1981), and the role that finally won him that Academy Award, "The Color of Money" (1986). Marie and Mike also talk about Newman's actress-wife Joanne Woodward, his love of race car driving, and, yes, his charity-supporting salad dressing.