Re: Paul Newman has cancer

edonline wrote:

> http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...833842-5001026,...
>
> Paul Newman has cancer
>
> June 09, 2008 11:21am
>
> FILM legend Paul Newman is suffering from lung cancer, according to
> U.S. magazine reports.
>
> The Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid actor, 83, has been suffering
> from ill health for many months and in May was forced to pull out of
> directing a production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men.
>
> Two U.S. publications quote friends of the actor saying the former
> chain-smoker has been diagnosed with lung cancer at the New York’s
> Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, a few hours drive from his Connecticut
> home, where he lives his wife Joanne Woodward.
>
> A friend of the actor told the National Enquirer: 'We have known he is
> seriously ill for several weeks but his loved ones are being very
> protective and saying very little.'
>
> Newman has denied previous cancer reports in March after he missed a
> fundraising event for his Hole in The Wall Gang children's charity.
>
> The same month, he cancelled an appearance on U.S. talk show The Late
> Show With David Letterman.
>
> His spokesperson played down his hospitalisation, insisting Newman was
> 'being treated for athlete’s foot and hair loss'.
>
> A cancer patient was quoted in the New York Post newspaper in March
> that he had seen Newman at the oncologists regularly.
>
> He said: 'He's been there a lot, he's even worked out in the waiting
> room, doing the squat thrusts.
>
> Last time, he was in there he had a long beard. (His wife) Joanne
> Woodward is there waiting for him and being very sweet with the
> assistants.'
>
> Newman retired from acting last year, blaming his failing memory.


Bummer, I really admire him and his lovely wife...


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Greg