Ingles vip, Paul Newman, part I

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Paul Newman’s biography – Part I  audio

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. COOL HAND LUKE: "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?"

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. During World War Two, Newman served as an airplane radio operator. He later studied at Kenyon College in Ohio. There, he played football and continuedperforming in plays.

8. 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.

9. 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 leftCleveland so that Paul Newman could study theater at Yale University in Connecticut.

10. 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 theactress Joanne Woodward.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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 tomarry his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher. But Clara, played by Joanne Woodward, has other ideas.

CLARA: " 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."

BEN: "You got the color right."

CLARA: "I've got everything right, Mister Quick."

BEN: "Well, I can see you don't like me, but you're gonna have me. It's gonna be you and me."

CLARA: "Not the longest day I live."

BEN: "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."

Vocabulary

1. accused of burning a barn = acusado de queimar um celeiro
2. actress = atriz
3. agreed = concordou
4. ain't = não
5. award-winning = premiado
6. become = tornar-se
7. bosses = patrões
8. brought = trouxe
9. businessman = homem de negócios
10. call = direito
11. career = carreira
12. characters = personagens
13. chewed up = destruí
14. could = pudesse
15. couple = casal
16. dealt = deu
17. death = morte
18. During = durante
19. effortless = sem esforço
20. even so = mesmo assim
21. first time = primeira vez
22. found = encontrou
23. gave up = desisti
24. gets a job = consegue um emprego
25. gets in trouble = envolve-se em confusão
26. good looks = boa aparência
27. good-looking = de boa aparência
28. got drunk = fiquei bêbado
29. got the color right = escolheu a cor certa
30. gotta = tem que
31. his own way = do seu próprio jeito
32. Hustler = pessoa enérgica, trabalhador
33. It's gonna be = será
34. kicked out = expulso
35. known for = conhecido por
36. left = deixou
37. let 'em = deixe-os
38. likeable = agradável
39. look like = parece que
40. manage = gerenciar
41. married her off = casou ela com
42. marry = casar-se com
43. met = conheceu
44. owns = possui
45. performing = apresentando-se
46. plays = interpret 
47. plays = peças de teatro
48. pretty evil fellow = rapaz bastante mau
49. property = propriedade
50. racecar driver = piloto de corrida de carros
51. ran = dirigia, gerenciava
52. roles = papéis
53. seemed = parecia
54. sensible = concreto, sensato
55. set in a jail = rodado em uma cadeia
56. shiftless = preguiçoso
57. smart = esperto
58. so much = tanto
59. so that = para que
60. son = filho
61. sporting goods store = loja de materiais esportivos
62. starred = estrelou
63. striking = impressionante
64. successful = bem sucedido(a)
65. support = apoiar
66. the late = o final de
67. the worst = o pior
68. theater = teatro
69. There goes = lá vai
70. thoughtfulness = consideração
71. together = juntos
72. Up There = lá em cima
73. Verdict = veredito
74. wake up = acordar
75. was born = nasceu
76. where am I supposed to fit in = onde eu devo me enquadrar?
77. while = enquanto
78. whose = cujo
79. wife = esposa
80. you got things fixed = “você arranjou as coisas”