Posted on 08/05/2022 8:37:17 PM PDT by Cecily
Paul Newman's drinking was so bad that his long-suffering wife Joanne Woodward once found him lying insensible on the floor, his head bleeding after falling out of bed.
She came close to leaving him that night. 'It was one of many, many scenes,' she said.
When she did finally snap, bundling their three young daughters into a car and driving to their Malibu beach home, Newman came in hot pursuit, banging on the door and shouting to be let in. She refused and Newman, the blue-eyed actor lusted after by women worldwide, spent several nights sleeping in his car on the drive until they reached a compromise.
He couldn't give up the booze completely, he said, but he would stick to beer rather than whisky and the half dozen martinis he was downing every night.
Given this was a man who would drink a six-pack of beer at breakfast, it wasn't much of a concession. But, as a new TV series reveals, the episode offers an intriguing insight into how the 50-year partnership of 'Hollywood's golden couple' — long regarded as blissfully happy and stable — was very different in reality.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Newman did a lot for kids- - he had a camp for sick kids- hole in the wall ranch or something like that
“The Double H Ranch, co-founded by Charles R. Wood and Paul Newman, provides specialized programs and year-round support for children and their families dealing with life-threatening illnesses. Our purpose is to enrich their lives and provide camp experiences that are memorable, exciting, fun, empowering, physically safe and medically sound. All programs are FREE of charge and capture the magic of the Adirondacks”
https://www.doublehranch.org/about/history/
Got it. When you declare something to be true it’s really an opinion.
I use the IMO convention. :)
Old friend of mine, Karl Haas, was his partner in the race car business. Paul drove, Karl partnered on buying cars and having them built. Karl died a few years ago, he and his wife lived in the priciest of the pricey Chicago suburbs.
I remember reading many years ago that he drank a case of beer a day at one point . Urban myth ? I don’t know . But even a six pack a day + other drinks would put weight on most people . Wonder how he kept in such slim shape with no beer gut ?
Wow, I haven’t heard that in many decades, in the 1960s and early 70s that case a day story was commonly known.
Then you should read of the long marriage of Dorothy and Robert Mitchum, she married him at a young age, like 16 or 17. She knew damn well he was having affairs, but he always came home to her and she was not going to divorce him.
Mitchum I believe did have an affair with Marilyn Monroe, he once talked about her vagina and something unusual about it. He died at home with Dot and his kids with him.
I always liked Mitchum in his movies.
We don’t have unusual actors like these anymore. Even just in terms of looks, contemporary ones all seem so boring comparatively.
Robert Mitchum was the coolest actor ever. And a Republican.
Tom Cruise is #1 right now. He’s crazy but he knows what his audience likes. There’s nothing woke about Top Gun: Maverick. Credit’s where it’s due.
Proof yet again that there is no species of mammal that displays sexual dimorphism of size (and the male is the larger) that is naturally monogamous.
I beg to differ.
Gregory Peck was the handsomest, coolest actor (despite his politics, which I don’t really care to know about in an actor. I think they should just shut up and act.)
He was a dumb libtard that’s his legacy
Though I’ve liked some of his films, I’ve never really liked him as an actor, or his looks.
I think he got better as he get older because he's a producer now. When he was young, his movies weren't all that, other than Risky Business whicu was a hit.
I saw him and Joanne Woodward walking up Madison Avenue one day an early Sunday morning would have been 1984. He was attentive to her and he was thin and fit. No way was he drinking like that
My friend was a self described “wine babe”, a now successful then out of work theater person working at a fabulous restaurant in NYC in I think 1992. The Newman would come in. They were personable. She asked if he could speak with the chef. They were great to be around. They loved each other. I saw it that day on Mad Ave
If he were an out of control alcoholic he would act differently. He would have a beer belly. He did not
This is a hit piece. An untruthful hit piece ina great American icon
Do not buy it.
The funniest story I read was an interview Newman gave to a car magazine where he was prepping for a race and had his gloves immersed in an ice chest. A fan passed by and commented to friends on the gloves, “that’s why they call him cool hand Luke!” Newman said he was dying of laughter inside but didn’t say anything because the race was about to start.
I’m willing to cut a lot of slack for someone who is a skydiver, flies his own P51 and L39 and does almost all of his own stunt work.
She was beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmXkOeD-fsk
Yeah, he liked his beer, and he especially liked Coors. Unfortunately at the time Coors was known to fund Conservative causes, so it was unacceptable among the snooty elitist Liberal crowd Newman associated with. Newman, however being the brave, strong man that he was, drank his Coors anyway; but always saw to it the can was in a brown paper bag so no one could see the label.
I thought Paul Newman was still alive and Joanne Woodward was long dead...instead, it’s the opposite.
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