Broadway is paying tribute to the late Mr. Paul Newman. Lights will go down in New York’s famed theater district tonight in memory of the actor who took the stage several times throughout his legendary acting career, earning a Tony nomination for his performance in Our Town in 2003.

This Friday at 8 p.m., Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights for one minute in honor of the star.

Mr. Newman passed away last Saturday after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 83.

Late night comic David Letterman took a few minutes to pay tribute to Hollywood legend Mr. Paul Newman during the Late Show on Monday night. Mr. Newman, a beloved humantarian and Oscar-winning star on the silver screen, lost his battle with cancer at his Westport, CT. farm on Saturday.

Hollywood screen legend Paul Newman has died. The Oscar-winning leading man, known for his starring roles in films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, passed away after a lenghty battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, CT surrounded by his family and close friends late Friday. He was 83.

“He set the bar too high for the rest of us. Not just actors, but all of us.” – George Clooney

“I was blessed to have known him. The world is better because of him. Sometimes God makes perfect people and Paul Newman was one of them.” – Sally Field, his costar in Absence of Malice

Legendary film star Paul Newman has reignited rumors that he is being treated for lung cancer after the frail Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid star was seen being wheeled around New York City on Thursday.

Paul Newman’s friend and business partner, A.E. Hotchner, denies telling the Associated Press that the screen legend is fighting an unknown form of cancer.

Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1958 film Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

“I saw him last week and he seemed fine,” AE said Wednesday. “I have no knowledge of any diagnosis or doctors…..The AP misquoted me. I have no knowledge of Mr. Newman being treated for any illness.”

In a Wednesday morning report on Newman’s rumored battle with terminal cancer, the Associated Report quoted A.E as saying:

“I know that it’s a form of cancer. It’s a form of cancer and he’s dealing with it.”

The Associated Press says it will not issue a retraction, adding “We stand by our story.”

Despite, a recent public denial, Paul Newman is battling cancer, an acquaintance of the eighty-three year old Hollywood star says. Writer AE Hotchner, a long-time partner in the Newman’s Own salad dressing empire, says the actor told him about the disease eighteen months ago.

Paul Newman does not have lung cancer, a rep for the veteran actor said on Tuesday. (Well, that’s good news.) Last week’s edition of The National Enquirer claimed the eighty-three year old Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid star had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at New York’s Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. P.N’s mouthpiece, Toni Howard, says the reports are “not true.”