Paul Newman, feature film actor, political activist, lover of car racing of his family and much more is gone from this
Earth, dying at his home in Connecticut after a struggle with cancer at age 83.

This writer can recall Newman being on network TV with Martin Luther King Jr and others talking about getting support for the 1968 campaigns of members of the US Congress opposed to the Vietnam War. Newman didn't seem so enthusiastic at the time, but he would go on to be a strong backer of Eugene McCarthy's anti war campaign of that year. He had also been a strong supporter of civil rights in the 1960s and 1970s. Later he would be a solid advocate fo the bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons between the USA and Moscow to get control over the Cold War tension and the danger of nuclear war. Like Dr King he saw the dangers of militarism and racism.

Accumulating a fortune and much fame from his career as a feature film actor over 60 years along with an Oscar, he wasn't in the least the typical Hollywood type, known more as the faithful husband to his second wife whom he had met and married a bit after a failed earlier marriage. He once said of adultery, "Why go out for hamburger, when you've got steak at home."

A philanthropist, he believed in giving back to others.

He was a part of team that won a professional car race at age 70, the oldest man to have to have done so. Race car driving became a great interest to Newman after narrating a feature film about the subject.

Never impressed nor obsessed by the Hollywood style, he followed the "road less traveled" that Robert Frost wrote about. He didn't need nor apparently get into problems with street drugs or alcohol the way so many Hollywood types do. He lived and died as an individual and real non conformist, and this world is the less without him.