PAUL NEWMAN IS BUTCH CASSIDY

January 5, 1969 Parade called Newman an unlikely superstar who, in spite of his No. 1 status at the box office] “doesn’t live in Hollywood] drives a souped-up Volkswagen with a Porsche engine] owns only six suits and generally dresses like a sophomore attending college on the GI Bill of ,ights.” Unlike most leading men] we reported] Newman was interested in the issues of the day and declined to seduce his leading ladies. “I regularly get steak at home]” said Newman] referring to his wife. “Why should I fool around with hamburger?”

The actor was about to release his 29th film] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and had directed his wife the year before in Rachel, Rachel. “I stumbled into serious acting]” he told Parade. “I was running away from the sporting goods business [his father’s professionR] and acting was as good an escape mechanism as any.”