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Newman Quits Hospital, With 'Weeks to Live'

Posted Aug 11, 08 11:20 AM CDT in Arts & Living,  Gossip 

(Newser) – Cancer-stricken Paul Newman is finished with chemotherapy and has gone home to be with his family, Fox News reports. The 82-year-old Oscar-winner reportedly has weeks to live but “didn’t want to die in the hospital,” a family friend said. The actor is said to have been getting his affairs in order; at home he'll be with wife Joanne Woodward and his five daughters, who are “beside themselves with grief.”


Source: Fox News

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Actor Paul Newman at a meeting in Carnation, Wash. to announce that the 800-acre Nestle farm will become one of the camps for ill children in the organization he founded.   (AP Photo/Andrei Pungovschi)
Paul Newman gives the crowd a thumbs up as he left the Tournament Players Club at River Highlands golf course in Cromwell, Conn. last June.   (AP Photo/Bob Child)
Paul Newman watches from the pit area during practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May.   (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, file)
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Paul Newman in 2002.   (AP Photo/Aynsley Floyd, file)
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