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I'm Bob Doughty. And I'm Shirley Griffith with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the award-winning actor Paul Newman. He was known for his striking good looks and clear blue eyes. Newman starred in over sixty-five movies during his more than fifty-year career. Some of his most famous roles were in the movies "The Hustler", "Hud", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Verdict." Paul Newman was also a social activist, racecar driver and businessman.
"I know I'm a pretty evil fellow. Killed people in the war and I got drunk and chewed up municipal property and the like. I know I got no call to ask for much, but even so you gotta admit, you ain't dealt me no cards in a long time. It's beginning to look like you got things fixed so I can't never win out. Inside, outside... all them rules and regulations and bosses. You made me like I am! And just where am I supposed to fit in?"
That was a scene from the nineteen sixty-seven movie "Cool Hand Luke." In this movie set in a jail, Paul Newman plays the role of Luke Jackson, a smart but rebellious prisoner who gets in trouble for doing things his own way. The movie gives a good example of Paul Newman's intelligent style of acting. He was known for playing characters who were imperfect but very likeable. He expressed an emotional complexity and thoughtfulness in his characters that seemed effortless. Paul Leonard Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen twenty-five. His father, Arthur Newman, ran a successful sporting goods store. His mother, Theresa Newman, loved the theater. She influenced her son Paul to act in school plays. During World War Two, Newman served as an airplane radio operator. He later studied at Kenyon College in Ohio. There, he played football and continued performing in plays.
Arthur Newman did not think that acting was a sensible kind of job. But, he agreed to support his son for a year while Paul performed with small theater companies. In nineteen fifty, Paul Newman returned to Cleveland with his new wife, Jacqueline, to manage the family store after his father's death. But the couple soon left Cleveland so that Paul Newman could study theater at Yale University in Connecticut. A few years later, Paul Newman received a role in the Broadway play "Picnic." The play ran for fourteen months. It was while working on this play that he met the actress Joanne Woodward.
During this period, Paul Newman also found roles on television shows. He studied at the Actors Studio in New York with actors who would also become famous, including James Dean and Marlon Brando. Paul Newman's first movie, "The Silver Chalice," came out in nineteen fifty-four. He later said that it was the worst movie ever made. Critics agreed. But his nineteen fifty-six movie, "Somebody Up There Likes Me," was a success that brought him increased public attention. Newman made many movies during the late nineteen fifties. These include "The Rack", "The Left-Handed Gun" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", which starred Elizabeth Taylor. Paul Newman married Joanne Woodward in nineteen fifty-eight after divorcing his first wife the year before. They made ten movies together. The first was "The Long, Hot Summer." The movie is based on stories by the American writer William Faulkner.
Newman plays a strong, good-looking, young man named Ben Quick. He arrives in a small town in Mississippi after being kicked out of another town because he is accused of burning a barn. He gets a job with Will Varner, who owns just about everything in the town. Varner likes Quick so much that he arranges for him to marry his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher. But Clara, played by Joanne Woodward, has other ideas.
" I gave up on him when I was nine years old and I gave up on you the first time I ever looked in those cold, blue eyes."
"You got the color right."
"I've got everything right, Mister Quick."
"Well, I can see you don't like me, but you're gonna have me. It's gonna be you and me."
"Not the longest day I live."
"Yes, sir. They're gonna say, 'There goes that poor old Clara Varner, whose father married her off to a dirt-scratching, shiftless, no-good farmer who just happened by.' Well, let 'em talk. I'll tell you one thing, you're gonna wake up in the morning smiling."
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward decided not to live in Hollywood, California like most other film stars. They lived a very private life in Westport, Connecticut. They would remain married for fifty years. They raised three daughters. Newman had three other children with his first wife. Paul Newman continued making successful movies. "The Hustler" came out in nineteen sixty-one. " How should I play that one, Bert? Play it safe? That's the way you always told me to play it, safe, play the percentage. Well, here we go, fast and loose. One ball, corner pocket. Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don't they, Bert?" In this movie, Newman plays a pool player named Fast Eddie Felson who competes for money against the expert player Minnesota Fats. "I'm mean, it's not enough that you just have talent, you gotta have character too. Four ball."
Two years later, he played the title role in "Hud." The movie is about a man who lives and works on his father's cattle farm. Newman said people were supposed to hate his character, Hud. But instead he said he created a folk hero. Paul Newman starred with Robert Redford in two very popular movies, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting." He directed his wife, Joanne Woodward, in several movies that were praised by critics. These include "Rachel, Rachel" which came out in nineteen sixty-eight and "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" four years later. Over his career, Newman was nominated for ten Academy Awards. He won for his performance in the nineteen eighty-six film, "The Color of Money". This movie continues the story of Fast Eddie that began with "The Hustler." In nineteen eighty-two, Newman starred in "The Verdict". "You know, so much of the time we're just lost..."
The movie is about an alcoholic lawyer named Frank Galvin who finds a chance to make up for his failing career in a medical case. Newman's performance during his character's closing argument to the jury is very powerful. "But today you are the law. You are the law, not some book, not the lawyers, not a marble statue, or the trappings of the court. See, those are just symbols of our desire to be just." Paul Newman was not only a movie star. He was a political activist who fought for liberal causes. In nineteen sixty-eight, he campaigned for the Democratic Party presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. Newman protested the Vietnam War in front of the American Embassy in London. He expressed great pride that he was named on President Richard Nixon's list of enemies.
Paul Newman also worked on social issues important to him. In nineteen seventy-eight, his twenty-eight year old son Scott died of an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. In response, Paul Newman created the Scott Newman Center to help educate children and families on preventing drug abuse.
In the nineteen eighties, Newman decided to start selling a salad dressing he had created and given to many friends as gifts. The "Newman's Own" company he started with his friend A. E. Hotchner became a huge success selling different food products. Over the years, more than two hundred fifty million dollars in company profits have been donated to social causes and organizations. One of these is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, started by Paul Newman in nineteen eighty-eight. Its aim is to provide a free summer camp experience to children with cancer and other serious diseases. There are now camps in the United States and several other countries. Newman said that he started the organization as a way to honor the role that luck has played in his life. He said that the camps are a way to help children who are unfairly affected by luck's cruelty. Paul Newman discovered his love of racing cars while making the nineteen sixty-nine movie "Winning." He even began racing professionally. In nineteen ninety-five, at the age of seventy, Newman competed and won at the Daytona races in Florida. The Guinness Book of World Records listed him as the oldest winner in his race class.
In the nineteen nineties he continued to act in movies, including "Mister And Missus Bridge", "Message in a Bottle" and "Nobody's Fool." And, in two thousand two he returned to Broadway one last time to perform in "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. Paul Newman died in two thousand eight of cancer. He was eighty-three years old. He was a true star both as an actor and a human being.
重点解析
1.striking 显著的，俊秀的，惊人的
She was a striking woman with long blonde hair.
她曾是一个留着金色长发的俊秀女子。
2.star 担任主角
The previous year Adolphson had starred in a play in which Ingrid had been an extra
上一年，阿道夫森在一部戏剧里担任主角，当时英格丽在剧中还只是个临时演员。
3.ask for 请求，要求
You cannot ask for your money back before the agreed date
约定的日期没到，你不能把钱要回去。
4.rebellious 反抗的；造反的；难控制的
He has always had a rebellious streak .
他总是有点倔强。
5.likeable 令人喜爱的，可爱的
He was an immensely likeable chap.
他是个极讨人喜欢的家伙。
6.be accused of 被指控；被控告犯有…
He is accused of killing ten young women.
他被指控杀了十名年轻妇女。
参考译文
我是鲍勃·道蒂。我是雪莉·格里菲斯。这里是VOA慢速英语栏目《美国人物志》。今天我们将讲述演员保罗·纽曼的故事。他以惊艳的外表和明亮的蓝色眼睛而为人所知。纽曼在50年的职业生涯中出演过65部电影。他最出名的一些电影包括《江湖浪子》、《原野铁汉》、《虎豹小霸王》以及《大审判》。保罗·纽曼也是一位社会活动家、赛车手、商人。“我知道我是个坏蛋。在战争中杀人、酗酒、破坏公共财物之类的我知道我无权要求什么，即便这样，你也得承认，你有很长时间制服不了我。现在看来，你定下的事，我永远无法冲破。内心的，外在的，所有这些…什么规矩啊，规定啊，领班啊。你让我成为了我！现在我应该到哪里才合适？”以上出自1967年电影《铁窗喋血》。电影背景是在监狱中，保罗·纽曼扮演卢克·杰克逊，一个聪明桀骜不驯的囚犯，因特立独行而陷入麻烦。这部电影很好地诠释了保罗·纽曼聪明的表演风格。他因扮演那些不完美却非常讨喜的角色而为人所知。他可以轻而易举地表达出扮演人物的情感复杂性。
1925年，保罗·纽曼出生于俄亥俄州克利夫兰。他的父亲亚瑟·纽曼经营着一家兴隆的体育用品商店。他的母亲特丽萨·纽曼很喜爱戏剧。保罗出演校园剧也是受她的影响。二战期间，纽曼担任飞机无线电话务员。之后他在俄亥俄州凯尼恩学院求学。在那里，他踢足球，也继续在戏剧中表演。亚瑟·纽曼认为演戏并非真正的工作。但是他同意支持他的儿子，当时保罗在一些小型戏剧公司演出。1950年，父亲去世后，保罗·纽曼和他的妻子杰奎琳返回克利夫兰接管家族商店。但是这对夫妻很快便离开了克利夫兰，因此保罗·纽曼才得以在康涅狄格州的耶鲁大学学习戏剧。
几年后，保罗·纽曼在百老汇舞台剧《野餐》中接到一个角色。这部戏剧演了14个月。这是在这部剧中，他认识了女演员乔安娜·伍德沃德。在短期间，保罗·纽曼还出演了几个电视节目。他和几位同样著名的演员，比如詹姆斯·迪恩和马龙·白兰度共同在纽约的演员工作室学习。保罗·纽曼的第一部电影《圣杯》1954年上映。之后他说那是他最糟糕的一部电影。影评人同意他的观点。但是他1956年的那部电影《回头是岸》取得了成功，并为他收获了关注度。纽曼在上世纪50年代末拍了多部电影。这些电影包括《叛谍》、《左手持枪》以及《朱门巧妇》，这部电影女主是伊丽莎白·泰勒
1958年，和第一任妻子离婚后，他便和乔安娜·伍德沃德结婚。他们共同出演了10部电影。第一部是《漫长的炎夏》。这部电影是根据美国作家威廉·福克纳的故事改编。纽曼扮演一位强壮又好看的年轻人本·奎克。因为被指控放火烧毁了仓库，从另一个镇子被赶出来后，他来到了密西西比州的一个小镇。他在威尔·瓦尔纳那里得到了一份工作，瓦尔纳是这个镇子的所有者。瓦尔纳很喜欢奎克，所以他把女儿克拉拉嫁给他了，克拉拉是一名学校老师。但是由乔安娜·伍德沃德所扮演的克拉拉却另有心思。
“我九岁时对他已经不抱希望，我第一次看到那些冷酷的蓝色眼睛时，对你也不抱希望。”
“你有选择权利。”
“我把一切都恢复正常，奎克先生。
“看来你不喜欢我，但你会拥有我。那是你和我。”
“这不是我过的最长的一天。”
“明白，他们会说，这就是那个可怜的老克拉拉·瓦尔纳，她的父亲把她嫁给了一个肮脏、偷懒、无用的农民。”
“让他们说去吧。告诉你一件事。你今天早上醒来时都在微笑。”
保罗·纽曼和乔安娜·伍德沃德决定不像其他电影明星一样住在加利福尼亚好莱坞。他们在康涅狄格州韦斯特波特过着小日子。他们的婚姻延续了50年。他们有三个女儿。纽曼和前妻也有三个孩子。保罗·纽曼继续电影上的成功。《江湖浪子》于1961年上映。
“巴特 这球要怎么打出？安全地打出？你总是教我要安全地打出，精算百分比。嗯，就这样，精准漂亮。一球，角袋。精准的球员也可能死得很惨，可不是么，巴特？”
在这部电影中，纽曼扮演台球运动员当快手艾迪·菲尔逊，为了钱和高手明尼苏达胖子比赛。
“我是说，光有才华不够，还需要具备特色。四号球。”
两年后，他主演电影《原野铁汉》。这部电影是关于一个在他父亲庄园里生活工作的人。纽曼说人们本应该厌恶他所扮演的这个角色胡德。但是他却说他创造了一个民间英雄。保罗·纽曼和罗伯特·雷德福共同主演了两部著名电影—《虎豹小霸王》和《骗中骗》。妻子的几部广受影评人赞誉的电影也是由他指导的。这些电影有《巧妇怨》于1968年上映，以及《雏凤吟》四年后上映。纽曼在其职业生涯中10次提名奥斯卡奖。1986年的电影《金钱本色》，让他获奖。这部电影延续了《江湖浪子》的故事。1982年，纽曼主演电影《大审判》。“要知道 我们浪费了太多的时间...”
这部电影讲述的是关于一位酗酒的律师弗兰克·加尔文在一件医药案件中找到了弥补自己的失败事业的机会。纽曼与陪审团激辨的演绎非常出彩。“但是今天你们代表着法律。你们就是法律，不是空洞的书本，不是巧舌的律师，不是冰冷的大理石雕像，更不是这法庭上的装饰品。那些都曾是我们渴望的象征，对正义的渴望。”
保罗·纽曼不仅是一名电影演员。他还是一名为自由奋斗的政治活动家。1968年，他为民主党总统候选人尤金·麦卡锡助选。纽曼在伦敦美国大使馆前抗议越南战争。他表示自己很骄傲他在理查德·尼克松的敌人名单中。保罗·纽曼也致力于重要的社会问题。1978年，他28岁的儿子斯科特死于毒品和酒精过量。作为回应，保罗·纽曼创立了斯科特·纽曼中心帮助教育儿童和家庭预防药物滥用。
上世纪80年代，纽曼决定开始销售自创的色拉酱调料并将这个当做礼物送给了很多朋友。他和朋友A. E. Hotchner共同创办了公司Newman's Own，并取得巨大成功，该公司销售不同的食物产品。多年来，公司将两亿多利润捐赠给了社会组织。其中一家组织是Hole in the Wall Gang Camp，1988年由保罗·纽曼创办。其目标是为癌症儿童和患有其他重病的儿童提供免费夏令营。这些营地位于美国和其他几个国家。纽曼说创办这些组织是为了纪念幸运在他一生中所扮演的角色。他说这些营地是帮助不幸染病的孩子的一种方式。在拍摄1969年电影《获胜》时，他发现自己对赛车的热爱。他甚至成为了职业赛车手。1995年，70岁的纽曼在佛罗里达参加比赛并成为戴托纳比赛冠军。《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》将他列为该等级比赛中年纪最大的冠军。上世纪90年代，他继续演电影，包括《未路英雄半世情》、《瓶中信》以及《谁也不是傻子》。2002年，他重返百老汇，最后一次演绎桑顿·怀尔德的《Our Town》。2008年，保罗·纽曼死于癌症，年83岁。不论是在人生还是演员的道路上，他都是一位真正的明星。
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