David Gerald Newman (born August 18, 1944) is a politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a cabinet minister under Gary Filmon from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, he made an unsuccessful bid for the Canadian House of Commons in Winnipeg South Centre.
Newman was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and educated at the University of Manitoba and Dalhousie University, receiving an LL.B. from the latter institution in 1968. He joined the firm of Newman, MacLean in 1968, and became a partner in 1973. Newman helped to found the firm of Newman & Company in 1978, and was a Senior Partner in Pitblado and Hoskin from 1985 to 1995, serving as its Chairman after 1989. He also President of the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce in 1989-90. Newman has extensive experience in labour law, and has also been actively involved in environmental and aboriginal issues.
Newman was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1995 provincial election, winning the Winnipeg seat of Riel as a Progressive Conservative; he finished 441 votes ahead of his nearest opponent, Liberal Gord Steeves. In 1996, Newman chaired a task force looking into the restructuring of Manitoba's civil law.
He entered cabinet on January 6, 1997, serving as Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister of Northern Affairs, with responsibility for Native Affairs, the Communication Economic Development Fund Act, the Fisheries Act (Part III) and the Manitoba Hydro Act. Newman opposed the efforts of an aboriginal community in Cross Lake to receive increased government compensation for land flooding in the Churchill River Diversion Project, noting that other bands in the area had previously accepted a negotiated settlement of more than $200 million.
The Progressive Conservatives were defeated by the New Democratic Party under Gary Doer in the 1999 provincial election, and Newman lost to NDP candidate Linda Asper by 274 votes in Riel. The following year, he ran as a candidate of the federal Progressive Conservative Party in Winnipeg South Centre, seeking to replace long-time MP Lloyd Axworthy. Although the seat is generally regarded as safe for the Liberal Party, Newman polled a credible second-place, losing to Liberal Anita Neville by 15231 votes to 10675.
Newman returned to his legal practice after his defeat, in the restructured firm of Pitblado Hoskin Asper. In 2003, he was hired to represent Ken Courchene, accused of mismanaging resources at the Virginia Fountaine Addiction Foundation in the Sagkeeng First Nation in northern Manitoba.
During the Conservative Party of Canada's 2004 leadership race, Newman backed the unsuccessful candidacy of Tony Clement.
David "Fathead" Newman b. February 24, 1933 in Corsicana, Texas, is an American saxophonist.
His professional career began in 1954 as an original member of Ray Charles' Band.
Newman has had a prolific recording and performing career.
Newman got his nickname in high school music class. Mr. Miller, his then music teacher, saw his music upside down on the stand, and knowing that Newman couldn't read music very well at the time, walked over and tapped him on his head with the conductor's baton and called him "Fathead." The entire classroom laughed, and Newman, having good humor, did not find it derogatory. The name has stuck with him ever since. But he, himself, has said he prefers to be called "David."
He moved to Dallas, where he graduated from Lincoln High School. After high school, he started playing flute and tenor saxophone at local shows. He then received a scholarship to Jarvis Christian College, where he studied theology and music. Newman stayed in college for two years and decided to move onto the road to further his music career. He played and toured with Buster Smith,Charlie Parker's mentor, playing many one-nighters dance halls all over the central United States.
At one of these many gigs, David met Ray Charles. There was an immediate bond between the two.
In 1954, David joined Charles in his band as the baritone saxophone player (although he is more famous as a tenor saxophone and flute player) and began a twelve year gig with Charles. He later joined Herbie Mann, with whom he played for another ten years.
Over the years up to 2008, Newman has recorded over thirty-eight albums under his own name, including his first, Ray Charles-Presenting David "Fathead" Newman (1959) and second, Wide Open Spaces, which was produced by Cannonball Adderley, the following year. Always a musicians' musician, Newman is best known for his hard bop style that has influenced whole generations of saxophone players of different genres. He has also played R&B and blues, appearing on recordings with Stanley Turrentine, Aretha Franklin, B. B. King, the Average White Band, Jimmy McGriff, Eric Clapton, Natalie Cole, Hank Crawford, Aaron Neville, Queen Latifah, Richard Tee, Dr. John, Cheryl Bentyne of The Manhattan Transfer and country/tex-mex artist Doug Sahm.
On January 22, 2008, Newman sat in as a guest with the CBS orchestra on the Late Show with David Letterman.
David Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer known particularly for his music for the movies.
Newman was born in Los Angeles, California to the late Hollywood composer Alfred Newman. He is the brother of the Hollywood composer Thomas Newman and a cousin of composer Randy Newman. An accomplished violinist, and successful concert conductor, Newman was educated at the University of Southern California.
Newman's success seems tied to his collaboration with actor/director Danny DeVito, beginning with Throw Momma from the Train (1987). He continued with DeVito for The War of the Roses (1989), Hoffa (1992) and Matilda (1996). His sensibility toward comedy brought him to The Flintstones (1994), The Mighty Ducks (1992), The Nutty Professor (1996), and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and requests for his scores for comedic films have continued to this day.
His other scores include The Phantom, The Brave Little Toaster, Anastasia, Malone, Ice Age, Serenity, and R.O.T.O.R.. He received an Academy Award nomination for the score to the animated film Anastasia.
In 1997, David Newman also began a four year stint as the music director for the Sundance Institute, and he has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra on several occasions.
David Newman was elected president of The Film Music Society in February of 2007.
David Newman (February 4, 1937 - June 27, 2003) was an American filmmaker. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until the time of his death.
