Best Charity-Minded Celebrity

"From salad dressings all blessings flow."

• Best of America

Few people can claim they started a multinational business as a joke. Fewer still can say they gave the profits away -- more than $150 million so far. Paul Newman can. Newman's Own salad dressings -- and lemonade, popcorn, pasta sauce and chocolate -- support Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps for children, earthquake victims in El Salvador and food banks in rural America. Newman once quipped, "From salad dressings all blessings flow." We'll drink, and eat, to that.

From Reader's Digest - May 2004