Sorocaba SP and region contact with Teacher Fulvio and getting started to practice English, private classes.
1. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward decided not to live in Hollywood, California like most other film stars. They lived a very private life in Westport, Connecticut. They would remain married for fifty years. They raised three daughters. Newman had three other children with his first wife.
2. Paul Newman continued making successful movies. "The Hustler" came out in nineteen sixty-one.
EDDIE:" How should I play that one, Bert? Play it safe? That's the way you always told me to play it, safe, play the percentage. Well, here we go, fast and loose. One ball, corner pocket. Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don't they, Bert?"
3. In this movie, Newman plays a pool player named Fast Eddie Felson who competes for money against the expert player Minnesota Fats. EDDIE: "I'm mean, it's not enough that you just have talent, you gotta have character too. Four ball."
4. Two years later, he played the title role in "Hud." The movie is about a man who lives and works on his father's cattle farm. Newman said people were supposed to hate his character, Hud. But instead he said he created a folk hero. Paul Newman starred with Robert Redford in two very popular movies, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."
5. He directed his wife, Joanne Woodward, in several movies that were praised by critics. These include "Rachel, Rachel" which came out in nineteen sixty-eight and "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" four years later.
6. Over his career, Newman was nominated for ten Academy Awards. He won for his performance in the nineteen eighty-six film, "The Color of Money". This movie continues the story of Fast Eddie that began with "The Hustler." In nineteen eighty-two, Newman starred in "The Verdict".
FRANK GLAVIN: "You know, so much of the time we're just lost…"
7. The movie is about an alcoholic lawyer named Frank Galvin who finds a chance to make up for his failing career in a medical case. Newman's performanceduring his character's closing argument to the jury is very powerful.
FRANK GLAVIN: "But today you are the law. You are the law, not some book, not the lawyers, not a marble statue, or the trappings of the court. See, those are just symbols of our desire to be just."
8. Paul Newman was not only a movie star. He was a political activist who fought for liberal causes. In nineteen sixty-eight, he campaigned for the Democratic Party presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. Newman protested the Vietnam War in front of the American Embassy in London. He expressed great pride that he was named on President Richard Nixon's list of enemies.
9. Paul Newman also worked on social issues important to him. In nineteen seventy-eight, his twenty-eight year old son Scott died of an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. In response, Paul Newman created the Scott Newman Center to help educate children and families on preventing drug abuse.
10. In the nineteen eighties, Newman decided to start selling a salad dressing he had created and given to many friends as gifts. The "Newman's Own" company he started with his friend A. E. Hotchner became a huge success selling different food products. Over the years, more than two hundred fifty million dollars in companyprofits have been donated to social causes and organizations.
11. One of these is the “Hole in the Wall” Gang Camp, started by Paul Newman in nineteen eighty-eight. Its aim is to provide a free summer camp experience to children with cancer and other serious diseases. There are now camps in the United States and several other countries. Newman said that he started the organizationas a way to honor the role that luck has played in his life. He said that the camps are a way to help children who are unfairly affected by luck's cruelty.
12. Paul Newman discovered his love of racing cars while making the nineteen sixty-nine movie "Winning." He even began racing professionally. In nineteen ninety-five, at the age of seventy, Newman competed and won at the Daytona races in Florida. The Guinness Book of World Records listed him as the oldest winner in his race class.
13. In the nineteen nineties he continued to act in movies, including "Mister And Missus Bridge", "Message in a Bottle" and "Nobody's Fool." And, in two thousand two he returned to Broadway one last time to perform in "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder.
14. Paul Newman died in two thousand eight of cancer. He was eighty-three years old. He was a true star both as an actor and a human being.
Vocabulary
- against = contra
- age = idade
- aim = alvo, objetivo
- alcoholic = alcoólatra
- also = também
- as a way to honor = como uma forma de homenagear
- Awards = prêmios
- began = começou
- both as = tanto como
- came out = saiu, foi lançado
- campaigned for = fez campanha por
- career = carreira
- cattle farm = fazenda de gado
- court = tribunal
- desire = desejo
- die broke = ir à falência
- died = morreu
- diseases = doenças
- during = durante
- Embassy = embaixada
- enemies = inimigos
- enough = suficiente
- even = até mesmo
- folk hero = herói popular
- fought for = lutava por
- free = gratis
- gifts = presentes
- given = dado
- gotta = tem que
- Hole in the Wall = buraco na parede
- huge success = imenso sucesso
- human being = ser humano
- instead = ao invest
- issues = questões
- just = justo
- lawyer = advogado
- like most = como a maioria
- loose = solto, folgado
- make up for = compensar
- marble statue = estátua de mármore
- Marigold = espécie de flor
- mean = malvado
- one last time = uma última vez
- pool player = jogador de bilhar
- powerful = poderoso
- praised = elogiados
- pride = orgulho
- profits = lucros
- provide = prover, fornecer
- raised = criaram
- remain = permanecer
- safe = seguro
- salad dressing = tempero de salada
- several = diversos
- should = deveria
- son = filho
- starred = estrelou
- summer camp = acampamento de verão
- That's the way = esta é a maneira
- title role = papel principal
- trappings = enfeites
- unfairly = injustamente
- were supposed to hate = deveriam odiar
- winner = vencedor
- won = ganhou
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário