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Article: PAUL NEWMAN'S LATEST CAPER.(TIMEOUT)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2000
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Reading the screenplay for ''Where the Money Is'' reminded Paul Newman that he ''hadn't done a caper in a long while.''
''I thought it really would be fun to get involved,'' said the Academy Award-winning actor.
Newman's last caper had been a little picture called ''The Sting,'' which won the Oscar for best picture of 1973.
However, the ''Where the Money Is'' starring role of Henry, whom Newman describes as a ''non-violent thief,'' put Newman in mind of his character from another film that he had done with the same director (George Roy Hill) and fellow leading man (Robert Redford).
''There's an element of Butch Cassidy in Henry,'' ...