Best paul newman biography

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Paul Newman: A Life

April 5,

Para mí, Paul Newman era no solo un gran actor, sino que era completamente perfecto en todo sentido, desde su carisma en pantalla o vulnerabilidad hasta su trayectoria personal fuera de cámara. Recuerdo que la primera vez que lo vi fue en la película “Mensaje en una botella” basada en la novela de Nicholas Sparks. Era la época en que descubría el cine y quedé fascinada cuando vi esos hermosos ojos azules y esa postura rebelde que no aceptaba una respuesta negativa combinado con esa actitud descarada que más que molestar llegaba a encantar. También recuerdo lo avergonzada que me sentí por sentirme tan hormonal por un hombre que podría tener la edad de mi abuelo. Pero los años pasaron y conocí otras películas de Newman, conocí al joven Paul que me volvió loca, incluso hasta la actualidad y por ello mismo sentí mucha pena cuando me enteré de su fallecimiento el año .
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Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man review – a screen idol full of self-loathing

Movie stars, bemused by their own magnified faces, don’t usually have much interest in self-analysis. Paul Newman turns out to be the ruthlessly candid undantag. In the late s, between beery binges, Newman recorded endless hours of reminiscences, ansträngande finally to understand the insecure, inadequate stranger who skulked behind his handsome facade. Probably alarmed bygd what he’d revealed, he later destroyed the tapes. But after his death in , 14, pages of transcripts were discovered in his musty Connecticut basement and in a storage locker; these have now been cut and pasted into an autobiography, supplemented bygd contributions from colleagues and family members. The result is startling: Narcissus breaks the spegel, leaving only some cruelly jagged shards.

In the early s, Newman seemed the most unthreatening of Hollywood’s angry ung men – less eruptive than Marlon Brando, less twitc

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Newman told Stern that the first role he felt emotionally comfortable in was that of Frank Galvin, the alcoholic lawyer in “The Verdict,” which came out in , rather late in his career. “I never had to ask myself to do anything in that picture,” Newman said. “Never had to call upon any reserves. It was always right there. I never prepared for anything, never had to go off in a corner, it was there immediately. It was wonderful.”

After he made “Winning,” in , a movie about a race-car driver, for which he was paid a record million dollars, Newman took up auto racing, and he got very good at it. He is in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person to win a professionally sanctioned race—the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. He was seventy. He attributed his success as a driver, too, to persistence. “The only thing I ever felt graceful at was racing a car,” he said. “And that took me ten years.”

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