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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.
Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of July 2011, these donations exceeded $300 million.
Newman was born in Shaker Heights (a suburb of Cleveland). He was the son of Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store. His father was Jewish (Paul's paternal grandparents, Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, were immigrants from Hungary and Poland). His mother, who practiced Christian Science, was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family at Humenné, Ptičie (formerly Pticsie) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Austria–Hungary (now Humenné in Slovakia). Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, stating that "it's more of a challenge". Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur, who later became a producer and production manager.
Lew Harper is a Los Angeles based private investigator whose marriage to Susan Harper, who he still loves, is ending in imminent divorce since she can't stand being second fiddle to his work, which is always taking him away at the most inopportune of times. His latest client is tough talking and physically disabled Elaine Sampson, who wants him to find her wealthy husband, Ralph Sampson, missing now for twenty-four hours, ever since he disappeared at Van Nuys Airport after having just arrived from Vegas. No one seems to like Ralph, Elaine included. She believes he is cavorting with some woman, which to her would be more a fact than a problem. Harper got the case on the recommendation of the Sampsons' lawyer and Harper's personal friend, milquetoast Albert Graves, who is unrequitedly in love with Sampson's seductive daughter, Miranda Sampson. Miranda, who Harper later states throws herself at anything "pretty in pants", also has a decidedly cold relationship with her stepmother, Elaine. As Harper begins his investigation, he is often joined by one or two new sidekicks, Miranda, and/or Allan Taggert, Sampson's private pilot who was the last person to see him before his disappearance. Living on the Sampson estate, Allan is also Miranda's casual boyfriend who Harper coins "Beauty" because of his preppy good looks. They discover that Sampson has indeed been kidnapped as they receive a ransom note. As Harper follows leads, he ends up in the underbelly of Los Angeles society, which includes encounters with Betty Fraley, a junkie lounge singer, Fay Estabrook, an ex-movie ingénue now overweight alcoholic, and Claude, a religious cult leader. At each of Harper's stops, people seem to want to beat him up or worse kill him. The case takes a slight turn after they decide to pay the $500,000 ransom to see where it leads.
Keywords: 1960s, applause, bacon-and-eggs, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bikini, black-eye, candelabra, car-accident, carrying-a-woman
Lew Harper: The bottom is loaded with nice people, Albert. Only cream and bastards rise.
Miranda Sampson: What do you do this kind of crummy work for, anyway?::Lew Harper: What, are you trying to be funny? I do it because I believe in the United Nations and Southeast Asia, and - you think it's funny if your life depends on what goes through the Panama Canal? What about the English pound? I'll tell you something - as long as there's a Siberia, you'll find Lew Harper on the job.::Miranda Sampson: Are you putting me on?::Lew Harper: Jeez, I don't think so.
Sheriff: Who is this clown?::Albert Graves: He's a private detective working for us.::Lew Harper: Yeah, I used to be a sheriff 'til I passed my literacy test.
Bartender: It's two after six. We don't serve domestic after six. Only imported.::Harper: Terrific. Keep the change.::Bartender: There is no change.::Harper: [pause] Keep it anyway.
Lew Harper: [placing a crank call to his wife, imitating English accent into phone] Mrs. Harper? Mrs. Lewis Harper?::Susan Harper: [puzzled and sleepy] Yes...::Lew Harper: Oh thank heavens! You see, we've just picked your name from this enormous drum full of names... Only you had to be there to win... and you are, so you have!::Susan Harper: Win?::Lew Harper: [flustered, thinking]... Six... one-hour frug lessons, absolutely free. Yes. I'm Austin Schwartz-Marmaduke, of the Schwartz-Marmaduke Institue for Ballroom Education. You must've heard of us, we're just off Wilshire near the Frug Foundation...::Susan Harper: I don't want any frug lessons.::Lew Harper: Of course you do, dear lady. Why just think how t'riffic you'll feel next time you and your husband try frugging... [starts to break up, chuckling at his own humor] how endlessly feminine you'll feel... [starts to really break up]::Susan Harper: [she has recognized Harper's voice and is paying him back now] My husband is dead!::Lew Harper: [not sure where this is going] Well, that's too bad, as a matter of fact...::Susan Harper: [gaining the upper hand in this joke] No... as a matter of fact, you're wrong. His death did nothing but serve the cause of mankind. He was a fool, a sadist, a functioning pathological pervert... He was grotesque in all ways. Can a soul be atrocious? [Harper has lost control and covers the phone, chuckling] His was. He was a degenerate's degenerate. You won't believe this, Mr. "Marmaduke", but he used to call me on the phone sometimes, pretending to be other people. He actually thought it was funny!
Lew Harper: [Asked if he was from Vegas] Oh, yeah. I just come up.::Bartender: You know, I would've guessed you were from Vegas.::Lew Harper: No kidding? You can tell, huh? Oh, really tell. You must be physic.::Bartender: Psychic, you mean.
Allan Taggert, Sampson's Pilot: Hey, this detective work is really fun!
Puddler: Kill the body and the head dies.
Deputy Sheriff: Okay, put them up.::Lew Harper: Put what up?
Lew Harper: Your husband keeps lousy company, Mrs. Sampson, as bad as there is in LA. And that's as bad as there is.
Actors: James D. Dever (miscellaneous crew), Sean Bean (actor), Reinhold Heil (composer), Ali Larter (actress), Steve Harris (actor), Frank John Hughes (actor), Vahan Moosekian (producer), Chris Cortez (miscellaneous crew), Amber Valletta (actress), Howard Gordon (producer), Howard Gordon (writer), Jesse Wang (actor), Robert Cable (miscellaneous crew), Joe Holt (actor), Tina Majorino (actress),
Plot: Follows a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum, who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But his own identity comes into question when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn't who he thinks he is.
Keywords: based-on-novel, tv-mini-seriesActors: Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Chris Watson (producer), Seb Godin (writer), Seb Godin (producer), Seb Godin (editor), Seb Godin (actor), Seb Godin (director), Dave Parker (actor), Morgan Jennings (actor), Maximillian Bilan (actor), Maximillian Bilan (composer), Matt Depatie (actor), Heather Jennings (actress), Matt Depatie (editor), Matt Depatie (producer),
Plot: A cannibal, Harper, uses a dating site to find his next female victim. But everything goes to hell (quite literally) as he faces off against a rival cannibal, his transvestite Ex-boyfriend and even the Devil himself in this no-budget, darkly-comedic short film.
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Short, Thriller,Actors: Shaquille O'Neal (actor), Michael Madsen (actor), Leslie Nielsen (actor), Campbell Lane (actor), Chris Elliott (actor), Barry W. Levy (actor), Kevin Hart (actor), Dave Attell (actor), James Earl Jones (actor), Bryan Callen (actor), Anthony Anderson (actor), Doug Abrahams (actor), Lil' Jon (actor), Charlie Sheen (actor), Bill Pullman (actor),
Plot: The unemployed Cindy Campbell is hired to work in a cursed house as caretaker of an old lady and meets the ghost of a boy. Meanwhile, the teenager son Robbie and the young daughter Rachel of his next door neighbor and crane operator Tom Ryan are spending the weekend with their loser father. Cindy and Tom meet and fall in love for each other, but when Giant Tripods invade Earth, Tom escapes with Robbie and Rachel; Cindy travels to a village, trying to find the answer to a riddle to save the world; and the president of USA organizes the defense of the planet in UN under his intelligence and leadership.
Keywords: alien-invasion, anal-sex, bar, basketball-player, black-panties, blind-woman, blue-panties, boyfriend-boyfriend-relationship, broken-heart, campfireActors: Brian O'Shaughnessy (actor), Brion James (actor), Greg Latter (actor), Embeth Davidtz (actress), Russell D. Markowitz (producer), Martin Wiley (producer), Charles Comyn (actor), Jurgen Hellberg (actor), Neil McCarthy (actor), Larry Justice (miscellaneous crew), Denis Smith (actor), John R. Bowey (director), John R. Bowey (producer), Lyn Hooker (actress), Rene Veldsman (composer),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: John Hargreaves (actor), Alan Burke (producer), Nick Tate (actor), Christoph Waltz (actor), Bruce Smeaton (composer), Peter Yeldham (writer), Donald Crombie (director), Sandra Levy (producer), Wendy Chuck (costume designer), Jane Harders (actress), Ray Alchin (producer), Alfred Bell (actor), Tony Kavanagh (editor), Kerrie Mainwaring (miscellaneous crew), John Allen (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Liz Fraser (actress), Peter Swanwick (actor), Reginald Beckwith (actor), Bill Shine (actor), Tom Gill (actor), Graham Stark (actor), John Harvey (actor), Sid James (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Michael Shepley (actor), Dennis Price (actor), Noel Purcell (actor), Desmond Roberts (actor), Terry Scott (actor), Irene Handl (actress),
Plot: When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Stanley Adams (actor), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), Sebastian Cabot (actor), George Montgomery (actor), John George (actor), Ned Glass (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Foxy Callahan (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Strother Martin (actor), John Mitchum (actor), Tex Palmer (actor),
Plot: A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an old friend, Hank Danner, arrives in town with his wife, Helen, who formerly loved Morgan. Danner is suspected of a bank robbery and Morgan has to arrest him. Crooked saloon-owner , "Frenchy' De Vere, sees a chance to get the bank loot, and he helps Danner escape and then kills him. Morgan is accused of the killing but nothing is proved and the bank money remains missing. Carl, a young man who Danner had helped, goes to Helen, who also thinks Morgan killed her husband, and gets Danner's gun and starts practicing with it until he becomes the fastest-gun in town, with one possible exception...Morgan, the man he intends to kill.
Keywords: ambush, american, ammunition, b-movie, b-western, bank, bank-robber, bartender, bribe, challengeActors: Philip Green (composer), Jack Davies (writer), Michael Brennan (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Ian Wilson (actor), Michael Ward (actor), Earl St. John (producer), Norman Wisdom (actor), Colin Gordon (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), Edward Lexy (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), John Shirley (editor), John Paddy Carstairs (director),
Plot: Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, adult-child-friendship, amnesia, billboard, british, bucket-on-head, cap-gun, child, child-kidnapping, clumsyActors: Christian Rub (actor), George Chandler (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Charles Jordan (actor), William Desmond (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), J. Carrol Naish (actor), Jack Norton (actor), Jack Perrin (actor), Milburn Stone (actor),
Plot: A distraught Jeff Carter arrives at a renowned lawyer's home with a mysterious bag and a confession he desperately wants heard. Jeff was an underpaid chemist working for unprincipled pharmaceutical tycoon Roger Graham, who takes the profit, as well as the credit, for Jeff's discoveries and hard work. When Graham prioritizes profits over safety, Jeff resigns and is blacklisted by his boss. A chastened Graham is later forced to relent and rehires Jeff under the latter's terms. He presses him to release an unproven influenza drug, but Jeff refuses and asks to go to South America to perfect the formula. The unscrupulous Graham uses the opportunity to release the drug as well as romance Jeff's attractive wife. When Jeff returns and finds that his son has died from the effects of the untested drug, he decides to take revenge.
Keywords: animal-experimentation, b-movie, bogus-drug, brief-reactive-psychosis, chemist, comic-drunk, death-of-son, decapitation, deceptive-advertising, desperately-ill-childActors: Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Jack Carson (actor), John Grey (writer), Dorothy Yost (writer), Edward Stevenson (costume designer), Ben Holmes (director), Desmond Marquette (editor), Charles Coleman (actor), Eddie Gribbon (actor), George Irving (actor), Bud Jamison (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Gene Lockhart (actor), Frank Melton (actor), Dot Farley (actress),
Genres: Comedy,