Paul Newman says he’s given up acting.
“I’m not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to,” Newman, 82, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” last week. “You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention.”
Newman, star of films such as “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” added: “I’ve been doing it for 50 years. That’s enough.”
He plans to focus on the Dressing Room, his new organic restaurant in Westport, Conn., and his Hole in the Wall Gang camps for critically ill children.
Don’t plan on strolling down the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame the next time you’re in his West Texas birthplace. The Lubbock City Council has rescinded a 1995 resolution that created the name. The vote came last week after Civic Lubbock, a nonprofit group created by the city in 1956, faced a dispute with Holly’s widow, Maria Elena Holly, over payment for using the rocker’s name at the Walk of Fame and Buddy Holly Terrace.
Max Baer Jr., who as Jethro in the 1960s sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies” lived off his uncle Jed’s oil riches, hopes to strike it rich in the gambling market.
Baer bought 2.5 acres last week for a planned casino near Minden, Nev., for $1.2 million.
“I’m putting my money where my mouth is and buying the property,” Baer told Gardnerville’s Record-Courier.
Baer is the son of former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer.
Toby Keith is among eight people, including the new majority owner of an NBA franchise and a civil rights pioneer, chosen to be inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
The hall was established in 1928 and has 613 members.
Keith, who was born in Clinton and lives in Norman, has performed 22 No. 1 country hits, including his debut single, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy.”
from wire and Internet reports
