Rat Pack Confidential writer Shawn Levy notes, in passing, that Paul Newman was fiercely protective both of his image and his private life. The former became the subject of two campaigns to change to law to ensure that the actor’sphilanthropic business interests remained untarnished by association after his death. This was an unsuccessful bid to legally protect the use of his image. With regards to his private life Levy quotes as exasperated Newman pontificating on journalist’s speculation about his relationship with wife Joanne Woodward – [they use] “the most banal language – and the fucking nerve to put it in quotes, attributed to me.”
That aside makes you wonder what Newman, who died in 2008, would have made of any posthumous biography, given that he was a very private star with a carefully crafted public persona. Half way through his account of Newman’s life, Levy quotes the man himself summarising the very...
That aside makes you wonder what Newman, who died in 2008, would have made of any posthumous biography, given that he was a very private star with a carefully crafted public persona. Half way through his account of Newman’s life, Levy quotes the man himself summarising the very...
- 4/13/2010
- by Edward Whitfield
- FilmShaft.com
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