Paul Newman, movie and racing icon, dead at 83CBC NewsPaul Newman, the blue-eyed leading man who starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and gained prominence for his philanthropic work and love of racing, died Friday at 83 after a long battle with cancer.He died at his farmhouse in Westport, Conn., surrounded by friends and family, publicist Jeff Sanderson said.Newman was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, taking home the best-actor honour for The Color of Money (1986) and two honorary Oscars.Part of a new breed of leading men who took Hollywood by storm in the late 1950s and '60s, his striking blue eyes and blond hair made him a fan favourite, but he often chose roles that were far from conventional.He played the anti-hero  most notably, in Cool Hand Luke (1967), where he starred as a man who refuses to conform to life in a rural prison, in Butch Cassidy (1969), in which he played an outlaw, and in The Sting (1973), playing a con man.His reputation for portraying troubled masculinity was ensconced with The Hustler in 1961. He played Fast Eddie Felson, the same real-life con man he ...
