zuluforzen

wow thaT is s0 great my dear ozzie friend good luck with all you do !! still waitng for mine!!

Hi Everyone,

After we fill out our timelines here we are given an estimate of our wait time until adjudication. First, I understand that this is just an estimate based on the history of other people's experience here on VJ, but I like it as a reference. I see my estimated date move a little bit from time to time and I figure it is computer generated and moves as the data changes every day. However, yesterday or the day before my adjudication date was between Jan. 21 and January 29th and today it says between February 13th and March 7th!!!!! What could have caused my (and I imagine everyone else waiting for a k1 from Vermont) date to change so drastically? Should I be concerned that my wait time really jumped a month?

Thanks and speedy approvals to all!

K

my time line changed from jan to july aug i filed aug sept talk a bout a jump

igors listhttp://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/igor/vjdata/vsc.aspx i looked and march filers are still waiting for k3 no2

igors listhttp://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/igor/vjdata/vsc.aspx i looked and march filers are still waiting for k3 no2

well on egors list there are a lot of people in may that haven"t been prossed so i don't see how aug is being done at this time well thats for k-3 visa

Hello JV members

Would anyone know how accurate is the JV NOA2 graph. http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/images/k1vschistory.gif

The website says that VCS is now processing August 12, 2008. Anyones opinion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

I visited three times during the visa process and had no problem at the POE when I told them I was visiting my husband. Each time I made sure I had a return ticket and proof of return to the UK - a letter from work, a letter from my landlady, etc

my husband is coming to visit in jan for 3 months will he have a proublem coming on visa wavier not telling we are married !!

I called immergations last week to find out has any thing happend on my case and how mush longer .. his reply was well with draw your k-3 visa and have him come on a visa waver then ajust his states.. only thing you will loss is your 455 dollars !! or get medical saying you have a hard ship.. well it all sound sooooo good but visa faud is not my ame!!

so i will waite but he did say that vsc is working on march as of right now and it could take 6 to nine months more !! being lonly and miss my new husband drive s me crazy but i will waite cause he is the best and i love him so mush!!

yes i can't belive he said that to me as well very tempting !! my husband and i deside he will come here to vist me and wait together and fly home when its time there has to be a better way!! i just had a birthday and had to celeabrate on line i am reduce to haveing my marrage and my new love thew a cumputer

time line every time i read mine  my time line it  gets longer first it read jan now may sept when i read it i go in to a deep depression how can it  jump a head 7 months !!!   the way i read it i wont see my husband till next sept that would be a year and a half !! i know so many people who come to the usa and ajust there sates when they come in to the country on a vistor visa !! I wanted to do it the right cause thats who i am!! now i am kicking my self in the butt for not lieing THIS realy SUCKS

Has anyone had this problem?? We log into the USCIS website and try to click on our case number and it no longer clicks through to the details of our visa. Our status has not been updated and it appears that we have not been touched. This started over the weekend. Im not sure if its a computer glitch on their end or if it means that maybe something is happening with our case (wishful thinking...)

anyone else??

yes i had the same proublem its broken

I called immergations last week to find out has any thing happend on my case and how mush longer .. his reply was well with draw your k-3 visa and have him come on a visa waver then ajust his states.. only thing you will loss is your 455 dollars !! or get medical saying you have a hard ship.. well it all sound sooooo good but visa faud is not my ame!!

so i will waite but he did say that vsc is working on march as of right now and it could take 6 to nine months more !! being lonly and miss my new husband drive s me crazy but i will waite cause he is the best and i love him so mush!!

Since I've been pretty unsuccessful at getting anything out of them, if you have some info., please share it here. Thanks

[/size] i called immergrations yesterday to find out if my case is anywhere to be seen and how mush longer!!

filed aug 130 sept 5 k-3 vsc..

his responce to me is well vsc center is working on march... i almost fell of my chair!! he siad 6 more months to get no2 and 2-3 months for embassy interview i could not belive this.. his reponse was with draw your appication stateing any thing but why you are truly doing this .. have your husband come here on visa wavier .. then re apply you will only loss 455.00 for your application fee.. or go threw expedia file get doc note or show hard ship .. he said if you are a usa citizen you can do this .. i could not belive he said this.. and he said miss we get some many appication that is why it is so slow... what to do take the risk or waite a year to see my husband again

[] filed sept 2 recived notice date for k-3 sept 5

--1 130 recived notice date aug 13

notice date aug 18th

still nothing

hopeing to hear something at the end of the month in nov

good luck to all

married april 12 haven't touched my huband since april 28th

167 days thank god for web cam and internet

God-willing, YES , StinkyMonkey. I'm REALLY, REALLY happy for you and your fiance. May God bless you both! Good luck on the next stage of your VISA process.

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Zuluforzen, I feel the same as you... empty. I never thought it would be this hard, but even still... thank God for everything that has happened. I know that everything happens for a reason. It will soon be our turn to celebrate too, my friend. As for your time-line.... I stopped checking mine. It's never accurate, it's always changing, & quite honestly... it depresses me when I see the dates fluctuate back and forth. It's helped me to stop looking at mine. But then again, that's just me.

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Kaye, I feel your pain too. Even though your journey has just begun, it doesn't make it hurt any less & it's just as hard. It's hard to be separated from the one person you love most in this world. It's so unfair. I see people around me always fighting and complaining about stupid little things in their relationships... ALWAYS making a HUGE FUSS over the little things.... they don't realize just how lucky & how BLESSED they are for having their significant other by their side. Meanwhile, here are people like you and I... who can only see our fiances through a web-cam & pics. i miss holding him... I miss his smell... I miss the sparkle in his eyes & his sweet, sweet smile.... I miss being in his arms which is the only place in this world where I feel safe... I miss EVERTHING about my Habibi. It's just not the same being without him. I hate it!

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YOU ARE ALL IN MY PRAYERS! I'M SERIOUSLY NOT JUST SAYING THAT EITHER... I KNOW WE ALL OUR IN DESPERATE NEED OF GOD'S HELP RIGHT NOW. HOPE YOU CAN COUNT US IN IN YOUR PRAYERS, TOO! WE ALL NEED A LITTLE PRAYER. LOVE 'YA GUYS

thanks for the kind words !!!like my husband says at less we can talk on line and see each other many years ago all they had where letters so we should consider our selfs lucky he is my strength miss him so mush

God-willing, YES , StinkyMonkey. I'm REALLY, REALLY happy for you and your fiance. May God bless you both! Good luck on the next stage of your VISA process.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Zuluforzen, I feel the same as you... empty. I never thought it would be this hard, but even still... thank God for everything that has happened. I know that everything happens for a reason. It will soon be our turn to celebrate too, my friend. As for your time-line.... I stopped checking mine. It's never accurate, it's always changing, & quite honestly... it depresses me when I see the dates fluctuate back and forth. It's helped me to stop looking at mine. But then again, that's just me.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kaye, I feel your pain too. Even though your journey has just begun, it doesn't make it hurt any less & it's just as hard. It's hard to be separated from the one person you love most in this world. It's so unfair. I see people around me always fighting and complaining about stupid little things in their relationships... ALWAYS making a HUGE FUSS over the little things.... they don't realize just how lucky & how BLESSED they are for having their significant other by their side. Meanwhile, here are people like you and I... who can only see our fiances through a web-cam & pics. i miss holding him... I miss his smell... I miss the sparkle in his eyes & his sweet, sweet smile.... I miss being in his arms which is the only place in this world where I feel safe... I miss EVERTHING about my Habibi. It's just not the same being without him. I hate it!

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YOU ARE ALL IN MY PRAYERS! I'M SERIOUSLY NOT JUST SAYING THAT EITHER... I KNOW WE ALL OUR IN DESPERATE NEED OF GOD'S HELP RIGHT NOW. HOPE YOU CAN COUNT US IN IN YOUR PRAYERS, TOO! WE ALL NEED A LITTLE PRAYER. LOVE 'YA GUYS

thanks for the kind words !!!like my husband says at less we can talk on line and see each other many years ago all they had where letters so we should consider our selfs lucky he is my strength miss him so mush

i just looked at my time line and it jump from jan to april may what happend k3 visa filed aug sept vsc

i feel your pain i am missing my husband as well !! i have not seen him since april 28th . we talk a lot on line but my life seems so empty with out him.. i have my bad days and good. filed aug and sept for k3 visa just hope to see him in january!

i just opend my time line and it jump from january back to april may what happend ???

i feel your pain i am missing my husband as well !! i have not seen him since april 28th . we talk a lot on line but my life seems so empty with out him.. i have my bad days and good. filed aug and sept for k3 visa just hope to see him in january!

For Christopher Perry:

Happy Anniversary my love, we got engaged on 22 of June in a very beautiful church high in the sky this was the most romantic thing i have ever experienced, you kept me waiting anxiously all day long but the waiting was worth it! Thank you for being in my life, Thanks to Jesus for bringing us together with these strange circumstances, I Love YOU

congrads!!! So nice to see people happy going threw this prosses!! I hope i am with my wounderfull husband on our anniversary !! Good luck and may the both of you live a long and happy life to gether !! cheers from the both of us

We totally feel your pain. We submitted our application around a week after yours. Looks like we're all waiting together on this!

Lol right lets stick it out and we can have shoulders to lean on at the interview point lol

chris and mara good luck on your fileing !!! I am right be hind you filed aug and sept!! I was wondering is it a issue to have him come to vist you ?? we are going threw melbourne .. was thinking of going to see my mate it has been so long since i have \seen him other then on line . time line say march it will be a year almost by then !!!

o my i guess i should buy a tv i loved him showing my age now i only go hot over a few actors and he was one of them !! He was one of the greatest !!! i will miss him but he will live in his many moves

Saturday September 27 9:16 AM ET

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.

Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.

In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of "Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues.

He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice."

Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting."

He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in "The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie"

With his strong, classically handsome face and piercing blue eyes, Newman was a heartthrob just as likely to play against his looks, becoming a favorite with critics for his convincing portrayals of rebels, tough guys and losers. "I was always a character actor," he once said. "I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."

Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War, and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's proudest achievements, he liked to say.

A screen legend by his mid-40s, he waited a long time for his first competitive Oscar, winning in 1987 for "The Color of Money," a reprise of the role of pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson, whom Newman portrayed in the 1961 film "The Hustler."

Newman delivered a magnetic performance in "The Hustler," playing a smooth-talking, whiskey-chugging pool shark who takes on Minnesota Fats played by Jackie Gleason and becomes entangled with a gambler played by George C. Scott. In the sequel directed by Scorsese "Fast Eddie" is no longer the high-stakes hustler he once was, but rather an aging liquor salesman who takes a young pool player (Cruise) under his wing before making a comeback.

He won an honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft." In 1994, he won a third Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his charitable work.

His most recent academy nod was a supporting actor nomination for the 2002 film "Road to Perdition." One of Newman's nominations was as a producer; the other nine were in acting categories. (Jack Nicholson holds the record among actors for Oscar nominations, with 12; actress Meryl Streep has had 14.)

As he passed his 80th birthday, he remained in demand, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the 2005 HBO drama "Empire Falls" and providing the voice of a crusty 1951 car in the 2006 Disney-Pixar hit, "Cars."

But in May 2007, he told ABC's "Good Morning America" he had given up acting, though he intended to remain active in charity projects. "I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to," he said. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me."

He received his first Oscar nomination for playing a bitter, alcoholic former star athlete in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Elizabeth Taylor played his unhappy wife and Burl Ives his wealthy, domineering father in Tennessee Williams' harrowing drama, which was given an upbeat ending for the screen.

In "Cool Hand Luke," he was nominated for his gritty role as a rebellious inmate in a brutal Southern prison. The movie was one of the biggest hits of 1967 and included a tagline, delivered one time by Newman and one time by prison warden Strother Martin, that helped define the generation gap, "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate."

Newman's hair was graying, but he was as gourgeous as ever and on the verge of his greatest popular success. In 1969, Newman teamed with Redford for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a comic Western about two outlaws running out of time. Newman paired with Redford again in 1973 in "The Sting," a comedy about two Depression-era con men. Both were multiple Oscar winners and huge hits, irreverent, unforgettable pairings of two of the best-looking actors of their time.

Newman also turned to producing and directing. In 1968, he directed "Rachel, Rachel," a film about a lonely spinster's rebirth. The movie received four Oscar nominations, including Newman, for producer of a best motion picture, and Woodward, for best actress. The film earned Newman the best director award from the New York Film Critics.

In the 1970s, Newman, admittedly bored with acting, became fascinated with auto racing, a sport he studied when he starred in the 1972 film, "Winning." After turning professional in 1977, Newman and his driving team made strong showings in several major races, including fifth place in Daytona in 1977 and second place in the Le Mans in 1979.

"Racing is the best way I know to get away from all the rubbish of Hollywood," he told People magazine in 1979.

Despite his love of race cars, Newman continued to make movies and continued to pile up Oscar nominations, his looks remarkably intact, his acting becoming more subtle, nothing like the mannered method performances of his early years, when he was sometimes dismissed as a Brando imitator. "It takes a long time for an actor to develop the assurance that the trim, silver-haired Paul Newman has acquired," Pauline Kael wrote of him in the early 1980s.

In 1982, he got his Oscar fifth nomination for his portrayal of an honest businessman persecuted by an irresponsible reporter in "Absence of Malice." The following year, he got his sixth for playing a down-and-out alcoholic attorney in "The Verdict."

In 1995, he was nominated for his slyest, most understated work yet, the town curmudgeon and deadbeat in "Nobody's Fool." New York Times critic Caryn James found his acting "without cheap sentiment and self-pity," and observed, "It says everything about Mr. Newman's performance, the single best of this year and among the finest he has ever given, that you never stop to wonder how a guy as good-looking as Paul Newman ended up this way."

Newman, who shunned Hollywood life, was reluctant to give interviews and usually refused to sign autographs because he found the majesty of the act offensive, according to one friend.

He also claimed that he never read reviews of his movies.

"If they're good you get a fat head and if they're bad you're depressed for three weeks," he said.

Off the screen, Newman had a taste for beer and was known for his practical jokes. He once had a Porsche installed in Redford's hallway crushed and covered with ribbons.

"I think that my sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me sane," he told Newsweek magazine in a 1994 interview.

In 1982, Newman and his Westport neighbor, writer A.E. Hotchner, started a company to market Newman's original oil-and-vinegar dressing. Newman's Own, which began as a joke, grew into a multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and other foods. All of the company's profits are donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than $175 million, according to its Web site.

In 1988, Newman founded a camp in northeastern Connecticut for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. He went on to establish similar camps in several other states and in Europe.

He and Woodward bought an 18th century farmhouse in Westport, where they raised their three daughters, Elinor "Nell," Melissa and Clea.

Newman had two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and a son, Scott, from a previous marriage to Jacqueline Witte.

Scott died in 1978 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium. After his only son's death, Newman established the Scott Newman Foundation to finance the production of anti-drug films for children.

Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of two boys of Arthur S. Newman, a partner in a sporting goods store, and Theresa Fetzer Newman.

He was raised in the affluent suburb of Shaker Heights, where he was encouraged him to pursue his interest in the arts by his mother and his uncle Joseph Newman, a well-known Ohio poet and journalist.

Following World War II service in the Navy, he enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he got a degree in English and was active in student productions.

He later studied at Yale University's School of Drama, then headed to New York to work in theater and television, his classmates at the famed Actor's Studio including Brando, James Dean and Karl Malden. His breakthrough was enabled by tragedy: Dean, scheduled to star as the disfigured boxer in a television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler," died in a car crash in 1955. His role was taken by Newman, then a little-known performer.

Newman started in movies the year before, in "The Silver Chalice," a costume film he so despised that he took out an ad in Variety to apologize. By 1958, he had won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the shiftless Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer."

In December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age.

"I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said.

Newman is survived by his wife, five children, two grandsons and his older brother Arthur.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/2008092...2253216000.html

RIP Paul

Saturday September 27 9:16 AM ET

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.

Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.

In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of "Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues.

He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice."

Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting."

He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in "The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie"

With his strong, classically handsome face and piercing blue eyes, Newman was a heartthrob just as likely to play against his looks, becoming a favorite with critics for his convincing portrayals of rebels, tough guys and losers. "I was always a character actor," he once said. "I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."

Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War, and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's proudest achievements, he liked to say.

A screen legend by his mid-40s, he waited a long time for his first competitive Oscar, winning in 1987 for "The Color of Money," a reprise of the role of pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson, whom Newman portrayed in the 1961 film "The Hustler."

Newman delivered a magnetic performance in "The Hustler," playing a smooth-talking, whiskey-chugging pool shark who takes on Minnesota Fats played by Jackie Gleason and becomes entangled with a gambler played by George C. Scott. In the sequel directed by Scorsese "Fast Eddie" is no longer the high-stakes hustler he once was, but rather an aging liquor salesman who takes a young pool player (Cruise) under his wing before making a comeback.

He won an honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft." In 1994, he won a third Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his charitable work.

His most recent academy nod was a supporting actor nomination for the 2002 film "Road to Perdition." One of Newman's nominations was as a producer; the other nine were in acting categories. (Jack Nicholson holds the record among actors for Oscar nominations, with 12; actress Meryl Streep has had 14.)

As he passed his 80th birthday, he remained in demand, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the 2005 HBO drama "Empire Falls" and providing the voice of a crusty 1951 car in the 2006 Disney-Pixar hit, "Cars."

But in May 2007, he told ABC's "Good Morning America" he had given up acting, though he intended to remain active in charity projects. "I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to," he said. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me."

He received his first Oscar nomination for playing a bitter, alcoholic former star athlete in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Elizabeth Taylor played his unhappy wife and Burl Ives his wealthy, domineering father in Tennessee Williams' harrowing drama, which was given an upbeat ending for the screen.

In "Cool Hand Luke," he was nominated for his gritty role as a rebellious inmate in a brutal Southern prison. The movie was one of the biggest hits of 1967 and included a tagline, delivered one time by Newman and one time by prison warden Strother Martin, that helped define the generation gap, "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate."

Newman's hair was graying, but he was as gourgeous as ever and on the verge of his greatest popular success. In 1969, Newman teamed with Redford for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a comic Western about two outlaws running out of time. Newman paired with Redford again in 1973 in "The Sting," a comedy about two Depression-era con men. Both were multiple Oscar winners and huge hits, irreverent, unforgettable pairings of two of the best-looking actors of their time.

Newman also turned to producing and directing. In 1968, he directed "Rachel, Rachel," a film about a lonely spinster's rebirth. The movie received four Oscar nominations, including Newman, for producer of a best motion picture, and Woodward, for best actress. The film earned Newman the best director award from the New York Film Critics.

In the 1970s, Newman, admittedly bored with acting, became fascinated with auto racing, a sport he studied when he starred in the 1972 film, "Winning." After turning professional in 1977, Newman and his driving team made strong showings in several major races, including fifth place in Daytona in 1977 and second place in the Le Mans in 1979.

"Racing is the best way I know to get away from all the rubbish of Hollywood," he told People magazine in 1979.

Despite his love of race cars, Newman continued to make movies and continued to pile up Oscar nominations, his looks remarkably intact, his acting becoming more subtle, nothing like the mannered method performances of his early years, when he was sometimes dismissed as a Brando imitator. "It takes a long time for an actor to develop the assurance that the trim, silver-haired Paul Newman has acquired," Pauline Kael wrote of him in the early 1980s.

In 1982, he got his Oscar fifth nomination for his portrayal of an honest businessman persecuted by an irresponsible reporter in "Absence of Malice." The following year, he got his sixth for playing a down-and-out alcoholic attorney in "The Verdict."

In 1995, he was nominated for his slyest, most understated work yet, the town curmudgeon and deadbeat in "Nobody's Fool." New York Times critic Caryn James found his acting "without cheap sentiment and self-pity," and observed, "It says everything about Mr. Newman's performance, the single best of this year and among the finest he has ever given, that you never stop to wonder how a guy as good-looking as Paul Newman ended up this way."

Newman, who shunned Hollywood life, was reluctant to give interviews and usually refused to sign autographs because he found the majesty of the act offensive, according to one friend.

He also claimed that he never read reviews of his movies.

"If they're good you get a fat head and if they're bad you're depressed for three weeks," he said.

Off the screen, Newman had a taste for beer and was known for his practical jokes. He once had a Porsche installed in Redford's hallway crushed and covered with ribbons.

"I think that my sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me sane," he told Newsweek magazine in a 1994 interview.

In 1982, Newman and his Westport neighbor, writer A.E. Hotchner, started a company to market Newman's original oil-and-vinegar dressing. Newman's Own, which began as a joke, grew into a multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and other foods. All of the company's profits are donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than $175 million, according to its Web site.

In 1988, Newman founded a camp in northeastern Connecticut for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. He went on to establish similar camps in several other states and in Europe.

He and Woodward bought an 18th century farmhouse in Westport, where they raised their three daughters, Elinor "Nell," Melissa and Clea.

Newman had two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and a son, Scott, from a previous marriage to Jacqueline Witte.

Scott died in 1978 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium. After his only son's death, Newman established the Scott Newman Foundation to finance the production of anti-drug films for children.

Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of two boys of Arthur S. Newman, a partner in a sporting goods store, and Theresa Fetzer Newman.

He was raised in the affluent suburb of Shaker Heights, where he was encouraged him to pursue his interest in the arts by his mother and his uncle Joseph Newman, a well-known Ohio poet and journalist.

Following World War II service in the Navy, he enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he got a degree in English and was active in student productions.

He later studied at Yale University's School of Drama, then headed to New York to work in theater and television, his classmates at the famed Actor's Studio including Brando, James Dean and Karl Malden. His breakthrough was enabled by tragedy: Dean, scheduled to star as the disfigured boxer in a television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler," died in a car crash in 1955. His role was taken by Newman, then a little-known performer.

Newman started in movies the year before, in "The Silver Chalice," a costume film he so despised that he took out an ad in Variety to apologize. By 1958, he had won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the shiftless Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer."

In December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age.

"I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said.

Newman is survived by his wife, five children, two grandsons and his older brother Arthur.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/2008092...2253216000.html

RIP Paul

Hey Mark

Decided to join you here also as i couldn't find another thread for Aug/Vermont/K1 filers

and so the wait for us begins, hopefully not too long

Hi Michelle. Welcome aboard the Aug/Vermont/K1 thread. My petition package arrived in Vermont on Wed morning according to DHL tracking, so I guess the next step is to wait and see when the check will clear and to receive official notification that from Vermont that it was received. What is most important for me to know right now that everything has been submitted correctly and that it is just then a waiting game for it to move through the processing stages.

i just joined and filed aug 1 -130 and sept k-3 visa still trying to get this post thing !! filed to vermont assie mate still cant post any thng in my profile maybe its me ! Yes the waiting game not good at that my self !!