Retirement is in Newman’s baby blues

Paul Newman is planning to retire.

The movie legend, whose piercing blue eyes have lighted up screens for five decades, says he’ll give up the activities he once described as his two great passions: acting and motor racing.

“I think both are winding down,” Newman, 80, told the Associated Press during an interview in London on Friday. “I’ll probably race for another year.”

Fans need not despair just yet. The star of “The Hustler” and “Cool Hand Luke” says he plans to make one last film -- “for good luck.”

He won’t say what it is but hints that a long-rumored reunion with Robert Redford, his costar in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Sting,” may yet happen.

“I hate to talk about anything until the papers are drawn up, but we’ve been looking for something for 20 years and now we’re looking harder,” Newman said. “I hope something will come of it.”