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...NEWMAN: Mine was a distant relationship. I don't know that we ever connected as father and son. But just the fact that his sporting-goods business survived the Depression was a testimony to his integrity and to his honesty and to his reputation. That really stuck with me. One of the great anguishes of my life is that he didn't see my success. He thought I was a ne'er-do-well. He would have taken some pride in my success. He knew what that struggle to survive amounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two For The Road | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...NEWMAN: When my brother and I went into the war [Newman was a radio operator in WW II], my father wrote us every single day, each one of us. Every day for three years, he wrote us a letter. If you go back and look at the letters, they were distant. There was no familial kind of sense to them. But there was an obligation to somehow remind us that there was somebody back home that was thinking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two For The Road | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...NEWMAN: I was pretty quiet until the Vietnam War. Then I became very active in that 1968 campaign. My highest single honor is that I was No. 19 on Nixon's enemies list. All the other actors were so jealous. But volunteerism is the best part of America. There's a much more personal kind of gluttony that exists today that didn't exist then. You can see it in business ethics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two For The Road | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...create the Scott Newman Foundation out of that sense of activism? [Newman's son Scott died of a drug overdose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two For The Road | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...NEWMAN: It was simply the recognition of unacceptable neglect. [Director] George Roy Hill said, "Luck is an art. People watch luck go by them, and they're so blind they never reach out and grab it." You could say the same thing about grief or loss. Something runs by you that you should recognize. You watch it go by, and you say it'll turn out all right. And then something happens, and it doesn't turn out all right at all. And you look back at all the signals you should have seen along the way. But--whoosh--like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two For The Road | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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