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Updated: Tuesday Oct 06, 2009 | 06:00 AM EDT By: Caryn Midler and Brian Orloff

PAUL & JOANNE, 50 YEARS

Married for longer than the combined ages of the Olsen twins, Newman and Woodward, (who met in 1952 while performing in the Broadway play Picnic) were the envy of their peers. So what was the secret? Newman, who died in 2008 at age 83, says monogamy is as easy as knowing on which side his bread is buttered. "I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?" he once famously told Playboy.