Reuters
June 11, 2008
Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman, responding last night to a flurry of unconfirmed reports he is gravely ill with cancer, issued a terse, cryptic statement that shed little light on his actual condition.
"Newman says he's doing nicely," his spokesman, Jeff Sanderson, said in a message e-mailed to Reuters and other media outlets in answer to queries about the reports. Sanderson declined to elaborate or give further details.
According to numerous accounts circulating on TV and the Internet since Monday, Newman, 83, has been diagnosed with lung cancer and was undergoing out-patient treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
A spokeswoman for Sloan-Kettering said she had no information about whether Newman was a patient there.
Newman announced just over a year ago he was essentially retiring from a half-century career in acting because of his age.
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