Actor Paul Newman has long kept his wellness a intimately guarded secret, so when a report surfaced that he was gravely ill and had gone home to die last week, it was met with some skepticism.
After all, endorse in June when reports began to surface that he was stricken with cancer, Newman responded through and through a spokesman that he was "doing nicely".
The next day his friend AE Hotchner, wHO co-founded Newman�s Own intellectual nourishment products, told Reuters that Newman had cancer. Hotchner said he did not know what kind of cancer it was.
On Friday, the British tabloid Daily Mail published a history saying Newman had finished chemotherapy discourse for crab and had only weeks to live.
The story cited "a close family friend" as expression "Paul didn�t want to die in the hospital" and had gone home.
Several weekend emails and phone calls to Newman�s Los Angeles spokesman went unreturned, and it seems no other news about the Oscar winner�s condition has surfaced since Friday.
It is interesting to note that in dealing with comedian Bernie Mac�s recent hospitalisation with pneumonia, his spokeswoman said last Thursday that Mac was �responding well to treatment� and in a �stable condition.�
Two years later, on Saturday, Mac died.
So, how sick is Newman? It�s anybody�s guess.
Newman has appeared in some 60 movies, including The Color of Money, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Newman hit his stride in Hollywood during the fifties and 60s when he was known for portrayal brooding characters or tricksters.
He won the best player Oscar for The Color of Money, and he has received one other honorary awarding and an humanitarian award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the Oscars.
Outside acting, Newman has been an accomplished race car driver and businessman wHO is the face of the Newman�s Own food products.
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