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Paul Newman, who was an icon in every single sense of the word, would have turned 100 years old this year. I don't need to remind you about his greatness on the screen (I'll forever have a soft spot for Slap Shot), but do you know who he was as a husband? A father? A role model? To celebrate his centennial, Newman's daughter, Clea, shared an incredible selection of private family photos with Anthony Breznican. In the pictures, Newman plays chess with his young daughter, proudly hoists a fish at summer camp, and flashes his trademark smile at—where else?—the racetrack. You simply have to see them for yourself. —Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor Plus: |
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To commemorate the Hollywood icon's centennial, his daughter Clea shared her favorite snapshots and stories with Esquire. "He was a really, really good man," she says. |
Paul Newman would have been 100 years old this past year, but even harder to accept is that he's been gone for more than seventeen of them. His icy-blue gaze and wry smile have never been far from the pop culture consciousness, however. Newman remains the ideal of a man from the last century—funny, brilliant, charming, adventurous. A good husband, a great dad, a fearsome race car driver who also made pretty good salad dressing. And he was one hell of an actor. That above all. To mark the anniversary of the birth of Paul Leonard Newman's birth way back in 1925, his youngest daughter Clea Newman opened up her family albums to share photographs of her famous pop. In most of them, he's paired with Clea at different parts of her life. Among the most special to her, though, are the photos of him at his summer camps for ailing children. She remains active as an ambassador for this charity, known as SeriousFun, and is helping to keep that legacy strong and growing. In other photos, he's with her mother, Joanne Woodward, whom he married in 1958 after they starred together in The Long, Hot Summer. Now 95, Woodward is still with us, but developed Alzheimer's disease around the time her husband passed, and she has retired from public life. The couple's decades together were full of play and passion, as the family photographs in this collection show. Paul had the same magnetism and ruggedness that we all saw in the movies, but when Clea is asked what she wants people to remember about her father, she says simply: "That he was a really, really good man." |
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An undershirt isn't a style cornerstone, but it's a cornerstone of your wardrobe. By that, I mean it's purely functional...most of the time. I laid this out last summer when talking about tank tops. Technically, we're talking about underwear here—the foundation of the clothes you wear—not really daily driver T-shirts. But if you wear an undershirt as a final layer, we won't be mad. Don't wear it on a date or to a restaurant of any note, but no one at the bar will know if that white tee is technically an undershirt or not. (Assuming the cotton is sufficiently opaque.) What we're looking for in an undershirt is, again, functional. It should help you cool off and wick sweat away. Every option we settled on is lightweight and feels great underneath the piles of layers we wear when putting on a suit during New York City winters. But a tank top off this list will look just as good under your favorite Cuban-collar shirt in the summer. |
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Podcasting now looks a lot like the music, TV, and movie worlds. There are studios with stables of shows. There are scrappy indie upstarts. There are waves of influence and innovation. And here I was thinking that it was weird that Kevin Smith made a movie about a podcaster in 2014. Surely this isn't the cultural thing he thinks it is, right? I thought. Wrong. A lot has changed in the podcasting space since then, and will certainly continue to change. Right now, though, here are the most entertaining, inspirational, educational and noteworthy podcasts of 2025—a list that will no doubt seem quaint somewhere down the road when all meals are delivered in podcast form. |
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