11 hurt at Tom Cruise film shoot

Eleven people were injured when they fell off the back of a truck during the shooting of Tom Cruise's latest film in Berlin, police said on Monday.

In "Valkyrie," Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who fronted the failed attempt by a group of largely military conspirators to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

The 11 fell from the truck when a side panel burst open as it drove around a corner in central Berlin on Sunday evening, police said. One of them was seriously hurt and had to remain in hospital. Filming was halted after the accident.

"We have no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved in the accident," said a police spokesman…

If anyone famous had been involved, CNN would have had to upgrade the story from World News to Star news…..

A test drive of 2 online TV services

MIKE SNIDER, USA TODAY

You know the feeling. You forgot to program your TiVo to record this week's episode of "CSI: Miami." Or your friend is excited about "Friday Night Lights" and you want to get in on the game. Networks have been experimenting with online offerings for nearly two years. USA TODAY takes an early look at a service being tested from News Corp. and NBC Universal called Hulu and a competing service, Joost, allied with CBS and Viacom.

Hulu.com

This new Web site, created by NBC Universal and News Corp., is stocked with episodes and clips from more than 90 TV series. You'll find recent and past episodes of "Friday Night Lights," "Family Guy," "24," "The Simpsons," "House," "Bones," "Prison Break," "K-Ville" and "King of the Hill." Older series include "Arrested Development," "Hill Street Blues," "Lost in Space," "American Dad," "WKRP in Cincinnati," "St. Elsewhere," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Doogie Howser" and "The Bob Newhart Show." There also are collections of clips from TV series including "The Simpsons" and "Saturday Night Live."

Once you've signed into the beta trial (you must be invited), Hulu's wide-screen video player comes up quickly and plays smoothly. Before an episode of "The Office" begins, you see a note that the episode is brought to you by Royal Caribbean International. One third of the way through, there's a 30-second cruise ad. Controls let you increase the video to full-screen or create a separate video player window that you can move around for easier multitasking. Sharing tools allowed the easy posting of a clip from "Bones" onto a MySpace page, and a clip sent to an e-mail account opened and played. Video quality is very good, but less than that of a DVD, evidenced by the lack of detail when the PC was connected to a large TV.

"It is a brilliant strategy," says James McQuivey of Forrester Research. "It doesn't take a lot of research to show that people like to share media with their friends, and this preempts the copyright troubles they have had with YouTube. They are willing to try to open up more content, at least for now. As a launch strategy, they are trying to make sure you're not encountering any dead ends."

Joost.com

Created by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, who founded Internet phone service Skype, Joost has more than 15,000 shows from CBS, MTV Networks (VH1, CMT), Turner Broadcasting (CNN, Cartoon Network) and Comedy Central, and movies from Paramount and Sony. After a five-month beta test period, it opened to all in October. TV series available include all three "CSI" series, "Punk'd," "Larry King Live," Adult Swim cartoons such as "Robot Chicken" and "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," and "The Late Show With David Letterman."

Joost requires the download of a 26-megabyte software program before you can watch. Once you install that and create a Joost username, you can begin viewing content. At startup, you can click "Explore" on the left of the screen and scroll through shows by type (Cartoons, Drama, Film, News). Dramas bring up a grid of current CBS shows such as "CSI: Miami" and "The Unit" and older ABC series "Fantasy Island" and "Charlie's Angels." Choose "CSI: Miami" and you'll find four recent episodes and five clips; for "Charlie's Angels," there are more than 50 episodes. A full-screen ad for the sponsoring product appears before the episode starts, and once it does, a small see-through clickable product promo sits in the lower-right corner of the screen for a few seconds.

The video was of slightly lesser quality than on Hulu. Ads for antiperspirant and other products remained visible to the side of the video window. Joost lets you share videos and clips, but only with other Joost members. Each channel has a chat room, and you can also send instant messages using your Google or Jabber mail accounts.

Says McQuivey: "If anything, the dawn of Hulu means the end of Joost. They could make a set-top box that would bypass the computer altogether. If they really want to stay viable, Joost has to get to the TV."

What's playing on network Web sites?

ABC.com. This site is stocked with full episodes from "The Bachelor" to "Ugly Betty," along with a dozen "Dancing With the Stars" episodes and the last four of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice." An HD player offers higher-resolution versions of the latest episodes of "Grey's," "Pushing Daisies," "Practice," "Betty," "Dirty Sexy Money" and "Desperate Housewives." Commercials play before each segment. You can also catch up with "Lost" (19 episodes from last season).

CBS.com. Here you will find full episodes of more than a dozen shows, including "As the World Turns," "Cane," "Survivor: China" and "The Unit." The innertube player divides hour shows into four segments; commercials play before each. Other series, such as "Cold Case," "Criminal Minds" and "Two and a Half Men," only have clips.

CWTV.com. Most series, such as "Aliens in America," "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Reaper," have four full episodes you can watch after viewing a 30-second advertisement. Fans of "Smallville" and "One Tree Hill" must make do with clips.

NBC.com. Full episodes of shows such as "30 Rock," "Chuck," "Bionic Woman," "Heroes," "Journeyman," "My Name Is Earl," "The Office" and "Scrubs." But other series such as "Law & Order" have only clips and episode guides. Catch up on the previous night's episode of "My Name Is Earl" with a wrap-up clip. Some episodes run ads before playing, others do not; still others may have a billboard above the video.

Fox.com. From the network's home site, you can start the Fox On Demand beta-testing service that has full episodes of series including "Bones," "House," "Family Guy," "Prison Break" and "Til Death"; 15- to 25-second ads divide the episodes into five segments. Can also launch Video Central to see clips and content from "24," "American Idol," "Family Guy" and "So You Think You Can Dance."

(CNN) -- Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in American arts, has died of cancer at his home in Westport, Connecticut. He was 83.

Paul Newman's handsome face and solid acting made him a popular and respected film star.

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He died Friday, according to spokeswoman Marni Tomljanovic.

Newman attained stardom in the 1950s and never lost the movie-star aura, appearing in such classic films as "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Exodus," "The Hustler," "Cool Hand Luke," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting" and "The Verdict."

He finally won an Oscar in 1986 -- on his eighth try -- for "The Color of Money," a sequel to "The Hustler." He later received two more Oscar nominations. Among his other awards was the Motion Picture Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

"Paul took advantage of what life offered him, and while personally reluctant to acknowledge that he was doing anything special, he forever changed the lives of many with his generosity, humor, and humanness," said Robert Forrester, vice chairman of the actor's Newman's Own Foundation. "His legacy lives on in the charities he supported and the Hole in the Wall Camps, for which he cared so much."

He was often willing to make fun of himself. Early in his career he was mistaken for fellow Method actor Marlon Brando; Newman obligingly signed autographs, "Best wishes, Marlon Brando." Read more reaction to from Paul Newman's friends and family »

Newman was a Method-trained actor who blazed his own career trail and didn't shy away from risky roles -- inside and outside films. Watch a look back at Newman's career »

A portrayal as a race-car driver in 1969's "Winning" led to his actual competition in races; at 70, he participated in the 24 Hours of Daytona and he was still racing at age 80.

He stumped for liberal causes, including Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential candidacy, and earned a spot on Richard Nixon's enemies list -- "the highest single honor I've ever received," he said.

In 1982, Newman and his friend A.E. Hotchner founded Newman's Own, a food company that produced food ranging from pasta sauces to salad dressing to chocolate chip cookies.

"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films," Newman once wryly noted.

To date, the company -- which donates all profits to charities such as Newman's Hole in the Wall camps -- has given away more than $200 million. Newman established the camp to benefit gravely ill children.

"He saw the camps as places where kids could escape the fear, pain and isolation of their conditions, kick back and raise a little hell," Forrester said.

Today, there are 11 Hole in the Wall camps around the world, with additional programs in Africa and Vietnam. Some 135,000 children have attended the camps -- free of charge.

The Association of Hole in the Wall Camps "is part of his living legacy, and for that we remain forever grateful," the association said in a statement.

"We are greatly saddened by his passing. His leadership and spirit can never be replaced. But he has left us strong and confident."

Newman was half of one of the most successful showbiz marriages -- to Joanne Woodward, whom he married in 1958. He observed that just because he was a sex symbol there was no reason to commit adultery.

"Why would I go out for a hamburger when [I] have steak at home?" he asked.

Newman's daughters said described him as a devoted husband, a loving father, an adoring grandfather and a dedicated philanthropist.

"Our father was a rare symbol of selfless humility, the last to acknowledge what he was doing was special," they said in a statement. "Intensely private, he quietly succeeded beyond measure in impacting the lives of so many with his generosity.

"Always and to the end, Dad was incredibly grateful for his good fortune. In his own words: 'It's been a privilege to be here.'"

The statement requested privacy for Newman's family.

CNN's Larry King, who interviewed Newman through the years, said he greatly admired the actor.

"He lived a long and terrific life," King said Saturday morning. "He was much appreciated. Did some theater, graduated Yale. Long marriage to Joanne Woodward. One of those showbiz rarities." Watch Larry King reminisce about Paul Newman »

Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. His father owned a successful sporting goods store, but young Paul was taken with his mother's and uncle's interest in the arts and started acting while still in grade school.

"I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store," he said later.

After being kicked out of Ohio University for unruly behavior, he joined the Navy and served for three years during World War II. After the war he attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where his unruly ways led him to theater.

Newman continued studying acting at Yale and at New York's Actors' Studio, earning jobs in the growing medium of television.

He made his Broadway debut in William Inge's 1953 play "Picnic," opposite Kim Stanley, one of the most successful stage actresses of her time. The next year he made his first Hollywood film, "The Silver Chalice," a bomb that he mocked for the rest of his life. He even took out a newspaper ad apologizing for his performance.

But success as boxer Rocky Graziano in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956) made him a star, and more hits followed: "The Long, Hot Summer" (1958) opposite his soon-to-be wife, Woodward; "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) with Elizabeth Taylor; and "The Young Philadelphians" (1959).

But the 1960s were to be Newman's decade, a perfect match for his ironic, anti-establishment attitude. iReport.com: What do you remember best about Paul Newman?

He began the decade with "Exodus" (1960), an epic about Israel's founding directed by Otto Preminger, and succeeded it with "The Hustler" (1961) as pool shark Fast Eddie Felson; "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962), another Tennessee Williams work; and "Hud" (1963), "Harper" (1966) and "Hombre" (1967), continuing a good-luck streak of films beginning with "H."

After "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), in which he played the egg-eating malcontented title character, he turned to directing, earning raves for his behind-the-camera work on "Rachel, Rachel" (1968), starring his wife. Watch Newman discuss what he would have done differently »

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and "The Sting" (1973) teamed Newman with co-star Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill. The trio proved to be box-office gold: They were two of the highest-grossing films of their time, winning a slew of awards -- including a best picture Oscar for the latter, a tale of con men in 1930s Chicago.

Newman finally teamed up with Steve McQueen, who had been scheduled to be his co-star in "Butch Cassidy," in 1974's "The Towering Inferno." Though the Irwin Allen-produced disaster film earned mixed critical notices, it, too, was one of the most successful box-office films of the era. Watch how Newman worked his magic »

Newman's career started faltering in the late '70s as he turned his attention to his other pursuits, notably racing. The loss of his son Scott to a drug overdose in 1978 hit the actor hard.

He made an artistic comeback with 1982's "The Verdict," the story of an ambulance-chasing hard-luck lawyer in which Newman appeared broken, raspy and every inch of his 57 years.

By the time Newman starred in "The Color of Money," directed by Martin Scorsese, his movie career had slipped a notch. Never afraid of playing his age, Newman portrayed a repressed businessman in 1990's "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge," a cantankerous lodger in "Nobody's Fool" (1994), a fatherly, retired gangster in "Road to Perdition" (2002), and the voice of a Hudson Hornet in "Cars" (2006).

He gained some of his best reviews for his performance as the stage manager in a Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's classic play, "Our Town," filmed for television in 2003, and was perfectly cast as the rascally father to Ed Harris' responsible diner owner in the miniseries "Empire Falls."

In recent years, Newman talked about doing another film with his friend Redford, but the two couldn't settle on a script. In 2007, Newman said he was retiring from acting, saying he'd lost confidence in his abilities. Still, he marveled at his own resilience.

Newman, who was married to Jackie Witt from 1949 to 1957, is survived by his wife, Joanne Woodward, and five children.