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.
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Like the old saying goes, "Bacon is good with anyone".
Not everything is everyone’s business.
40 years here and yes we are certifiably crazy.
I have read that he drank a case of beer every day.
Perhaps. But I’ve never been a big fan of tomato juice.
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Actually, his/their daughters asked Ethan Hawke to make this documentary and are interviewed/contributed throughout. I think they did this to get ahead of a biography coming out about Paul Newman that is supposedly not very flattering.
Richard Harris was a great actor. I found out when he stated that Newman(and Redford) “were not actors”. Made me think. He stated the two of them played ‘characters’. I could not picture Newman playing Cromwell like Harris did. Made me appreciate Harris more as I realized Newman and Redford got by a lot on their looks. Cruise? I dunno.
To each his own. I think Cruise is a better actor than Olivier. Although I think Olivier was pretty awful and the most overrated actor ever. So Cruise is not a favorite.
They may not be able to play Macbeth or King Lear on the stage, but Newman/Redford/Cruise were/are good at what they do, which is making entertaining and some classic movies.
As much of a liberal Paul Newman was, he was a great human with his hole in the wall camps (for sick kids). One day, ex, the kids and myself were on a bike ride and we stopped at a famous roadside eatery to get ice cream. Mind you, we were in just shorts and t shirts, enjoying our ice cream when a Porsche drove in, a man opened his door and the man stepped out in a tux, he walked to the passenger door, opened it and out stepped this beautiful older lady in a formal dress then walked into the restaurant. We were enjoying our ice cream and I said, “Sorry, I didn’t know it was a black tie event” and he smiled. They were coming home from a fund raiser for The Hole in The Wall Camps.
I agree, someone wants to make a movie off the lives of these people. I don’t care about their personal business, but leave it to Daily Mail to spread the gossip far and wide.
Especially seeing him at Lime Rock. Paul was a great actor and race car driver.
I was in theater with a guy who only did 1 movie and he had a decent role in it. He told me “The more movies you make, the more people think you suck as an actor”.
Urban myth I’d guess . Probably was a 6 pack that got turned into a case by someone .
An ack-tor who was a womanizer and a drunk?
I am so disillusioned.
When I buy bottled tomato sauce it is ALWAYS Newman’s Sockarooni sauce.
Yum...
“There’s nothing woke about Top Gun: Maverick”
In the opening bar scene, there are 5 pilots. Only one is a white male, then they show another white male who is a goober. That is not representative of the demographics of Navy pilots (yet). The woke is sometimes subtle.
Agree with all the news in the world this gets reported.
Rodney Dangerfield not impressed.
Scientology isn’t a set of beliefs, unless you count belief in the Almighty Con.
For every star like Crazy Cruise, there are thousands of desperate losers who are virtual slaves of the cult of Scientology. And they’re not happy slaves, either.
(Just for the record, I think anyone who argues about which play-actor has the most moral character should be sent out to eat on the patio. I never suppose someone like P Newman has a great moral character, just a huge army of fame addicts who would see him rob a convenience store and think it was adorable, and attack anyone who tries to talk about it. That makes all the difference, you know.)
Uh, but I digress. If you think Scientology is a belief system and a real church, and la la la, there are lots of anti-scientology sites popping up these days. I was just checking this one out:
It’s a site where ex-scientologists and victims of scientology post. This particular thread is about the “Chase wave” scam that they were running. WERE running, because the law is about to come down on them.
I feel sorry for actors’ kids. That freak Anne Heche has kids. *shudder* Seriously, you know those kids need help. Yes, everybody’s Mommy and Daddy have fights. Everybody’s Mommy and Daddy pretend that everything’s just peachy out in the World so people won’t gossip about them.
But every normal kid’s Mommy and Daddy will sooner or later have permanent consequences from a lifetime of wasting and scr3wing around. These people have armies of lawyers and fans to wipe their chins and shovel them into their suits, and get them to appointments, and cover up their indiscretions.
And get rid of people who cause them problems, of course.
In the real world, Mommy and Daddy can only front for so long before the seams start to split.
The rioting, the shortages, the “having to feel bad about nonexistent problems like climate change” syndromes we are currently experiencing are in large part due to people - talking about everybody on Earth, not just in the USA - due to people BELIEVING the insipid garbage spouted by play-actors in movies, on TV, and worst of all in their day-to-day lives which are so much different than a normal person’s life that most of us still kinda don’t get it.
We believe the insane stuff in movies, we sympathize with actors we like, we read about them and think about them and try to imitate their looks and mannerisms, etc. (Not saying I’m better off than you, btw; sometimes I don’t know where some actor I used to like stops and the actual “me” begins.) We worry about the “entertainment industry” more than we worry about what kids are being taught in public school.
Why do we talk about the “accomplishments” of actors and not the inventors of a revolutionary new type of battery or the eradication of a particular disease? (Again, sometimes cracking on actors is comic relief. At least there’s somebody more messed-up than me! Ya know?)
But all joking aside, we can now see the consequences of ignoring those genuine producers of benefits for mankind and bestowing our approval and attention on actors - those who make their often considerable fortunes from lying and making noobs believe lies.
Lying and being able to make others believe the lies one espouses are counted as great virtues today.
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