“Get all the good you can out of 17, cause it sure wears out in a hurry.” True..
In bill goldman’s book he talked about two Paul Newman moments that sort of lingered with me: one where he was acting opposite Robert Wagner (who killed his wife by the way) and all he’s doing in this scene is standing out of frame reading lines from a script. Anyway Wagner is just so overwhelmed that he’s acting with fucking Paul Newman and it just pushes him into a new degree of inspiration and he just starts to bawl. And Newman is so pleased and shocked that he starts messing up his lines!! The second moment was an anecdote Goldman told where he and Newman were walking on the side of the road and Newman had a handful of rocks with him. And every time a car passed he would throw a rock into the forest so that whoever was driving wouldn’t see that it was him.
Also at least once in the book Goldman interjects to add in a Paul Newman quote likely given as he was reading the first draft or something of the sort. Very cute. Goldman described him as the “least star-like star” he’d ever met. No one will ever have a face card like that AND a kind heart like that ever again.. We only shared this earth for one year one month and one day and it is an absolute shame that I didn’t know he existed maybe I could have met him. And I would have been a baby and he would have been dying of cancer but it’s okay. Happy (months) late 100th birthday Paul
Oh yeah um this movie. It’s good. It’s long. Sad. A very interesting piece on masculinity for the period. You get to hear Paul Newman say daddy like 15 times for those intrigued. I feel like maybe I should like it (the movie) more but I’m altogether closer to indifferent than I am to reverent. I think part of this poster was in Joe’s room in midnight cowboy so I might have to do something about that…
“Get all the good you can out of 17, cause it sure wears out in a hurry.” True..
In bill goldman’s book he talked about two Paul Newman moments that sort of lingered with me: one where he was acting opposite Robert Wagner (who killed his wife by the way) and all he’s doing in this scene is standing out of frame reading lines from a script. Anyway Wagner is just so overwhelmed that he’s acting with fucking Paul Newman and it just pushes him into a new degree of inspiration and he just starts to bawl. And Newman is so pleased and shocked that he starts messing up his lines!! The second moment was an anecdote Goldman told where he and Newman were walking on the side of the road and Newman had a handful of rocks with him. And every time a car passed he would throw a rock into the forest so that whoever was driving wouldn’t see that it was him.
Also at least once in the book Goldman interjects to add in a Paul Newman quote likely given as he was reading the first draft or something of the sort. Very cute. Goldman described him as the “least star-like star” he’d ever met. No one will ever have a face card like that AND a kind heart like that ever again.. We only shared this earth for one year one month and one day and it is an absolute shame that I didn’t know he existed maybe I could have met him. And I would have been a baby and he would have been dying of cancer but it’s okay. Happy (months) late 100th birthday Paul
Oh yeah um this movie. It’s good. It’s long. Sad. A very interesting piece on masculinity for the period. You get to hear Paul Newman say daddy like 15 times for those intrigued. I feel like maybe I should like it (the movie) more but I’m altogether closer to indifferent than I am to reverent. I think part of this poster was in Joe’s room in midnight cowboy so I might have to do something about that…
