{"id":14137,"date":"2012-01-26T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14137"},"modified":"2012-01-26T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:05:04","slug":"paul-newmans-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/01\/26\/paul-newmans-philanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Newman&#8217;s Philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Newmans-Philanthropy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14138\" title=\"Paul Newman's Philanthropy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Newmans-Philanthropy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Newman\">Paul Newman<\/a>\u00a0was born on this day in 1925 and although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/09\/27\/paul-newman-has-died-aged-83\/\">he passed away in 2008<\/a>, his remarkable philanthropic activities live on.<\/p>\n<p>Think for just a minute about <a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2011\/11\/scandals-of-classic-hollywood-paul-newman-decency-manifest\">a major Hollywood actor<\/a>\u00a0who starts up a <a href=\"http:\/\/newmansown.com\/\">successful food business<\/a> and then gives all the profits to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmansownfoundation.org\/\">charitable foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is almost as unlikely as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/29\/hedy-lamarr-movie-star-inventor-richard-rhodes-hedys-folly\/\">an actress inventing the technology later used for wi-fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it actually happened.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVR4trblEJY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To date, Newman and Newman\u2019s Own Foundation have donated more than $300 million to thousands of charities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This was <em>in addition<\/em> to being one of the biggest movie stars on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000056\/\">Paul Newman<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Newman\">More on Paul Newman&#8217;s life at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmansownfoundation.org\/\">Newman\u2019s Own Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holeinthewallcamps.org\/\">The Hole in the Wall Gang<\/a>\u00a0(also on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hitwcamps\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TeamHoleintheWall\">YouTube<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Newman was born on this day in 1925 and despite passing away in 2008, his remarkable philanthropic activities live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}