There’s an old French expression: “An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man.” No one ever thought of Paul Newman in those terms. In a way, men and women alike saw him more as an heroic athlete than a performing actor.

Certainly, it’s hard to think of anyone else in show business who had as many sports connections as he did. He was the decathlete of Hollywood. You read the tributes to him, and people from various disparate sports all write about him so fondly, all crediting him with helping their sport.

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