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 ...
Anyone married 50 years has flaws and difficulties.
And are both certifiably crazy.
I hear that one night he took the tops off of every parking meter in town! (And they’ve got video!)
It’s a very good article.
I read a book of a starlet/writer/.... Nancy Bacon who dated many men in hollywood starting when she was 16 with Hugh O’Brien on a visit to his tv show set “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp”. She also had an affair with Paul Newman.
“Newman himself was most certainly not divorced. He’d been married to actress Joanne Woodward (pictured above) for a decade. Bacon, who was editor of Confidential Magazine, is quoted as saying their relationship was “the worst-kept secret in Hollywood.”
The pair were said to have split after a year and a half. Bacon claimed she wound things up, partly because the veteran actor was drunk all the time. Stories about Newman and Bacon’s affair have been challenged in the press.”
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2021/09/14/an-alleged-affair-and-terrible-toilet-breaks-the-unseen-side-of-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid/?firefox=1
Legends and Lipstick: My Scandalous Stories of Hollywood’s Golden Era
Her love affairs with the likes of Paul Newman, Errol Flynn, Tommy Smothers, Rod Taylor, Vince Edwards, and Hugh O’Brian, plus details on her friendships with the Rat Pack, Judy Garland, Bobby Kennedy, Jay Sebring, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, and Marilyn Monroe
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06W57XSHR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
“I never tried his Newman’s Own salad dressing.”
They are, for the most part, EXCELLENT. The Sesame Ginger is particularly good, and it’s only 35 calories a serving. You’ll see it on any list of “diet friendly” foods. Makes a good marinade too. And “Family Recipe Italian” is delish. The Caesar is a bit too salty.
Try it...you’ll like it!
Agreed! Thanks for posting.
“I don’t eat salad; I never tried his Newman’s Own salad dressing”
His frozen thin crust Pizza’s are supposed to be very good. We just picked one up to give it a try.
When very young I dated a stocks driver. Then stocks consisted of young men with muscle cars and loyal buddies who would support and run the pit for them and really wealthy older men. And an occasional cute girl. Met him briefly when in the circuit. A motorhead.
I was looking at the picture of the woman Bacon with whom Newman purportedly had the affair.
Her body was the normal woman’s body of the time. Not the hard man’s body with breasts so popular today. No large muscles or prominent muscles and soft thighs.
Womanly.
I sometimes wonder whether this physical masculinization of women is a core issue in the fall of our current culture.
And not for anything, but “lying insensible?” Does the author mean “lying senseless?” Must have been the editor’s day off.
His dressings really are good quality and a portion of the proceeds go to charity.
We used to drive by his house on errands when I was a kid. I had no real knowledge about him, but I knew his name. One time near Christmas we drove by and he was out in front of his home by a car. He was waving to passing traffic. I thought he was a nice guy.
Mimosas are the only acceptable breakfast drink. And maybe peach bellinis too. But that’s it.
CC
“Insensate” is shorter and gets the job done.
CC
Bloodies work well here in the am
Newman was a hard core Hollywood leftist. He was a major donor to Handgun Control Inc.as well as many Democrat politicians and an outspoken critic of the 2 nd amendment. As far as I’m concerned his death was no loss.
Hard core drunks.
God’s law for men is in total concordance with the their nature. How can you say what you said?
You’ve got to be kidding! Tom Cruise is the WORST actor in Hollywood!
To each his own. I think Tom is a good actor and, pertinent to the posted article, a bona fide movie star like Paul Newman.
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