Word: newman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RACHEL, RACHEL. Puzzled by the present, plagued by the past, a 35-year-old schoolteacher struggles to break out of her bleak existence in this muted film di rected by Paul Newman. As Rachel, Joanne Woodward (Mrs. Newman) brings transcendent strength to her role and lifts the film to classic stature...
Portly, cigar-puffing Pierre, 43, owns an eighth of The Factory, the swinging Los Angeles nightclub that he founded last year with Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Anthony Newley, Paul Newman and four other investors. Although he has just sold his small interest in the San Diego Chargers, a top-ranking team in the American Football League, Salinger remains a director of National General Productions, the motion-picture producing arm of National General Corp. But Salinger's chief concern today is finance. He is chairman of Great America Management & Research Co. International (GRAMCO), which controls a fast-growing, Nassau...
Hunted Animal. The movie marks Paul Newman's debut at the other end of the camera. Since he could not find a director who liked the script, Newman decided to do the job himself. "What the hell," he said, "I majored in directing at the Yale Drama School." Disdaining the usual directorial flourishes, he told his crew, Rachel-style: "I'm a virgin and I need your help." He coached Actress Woodward-his wife-in whispers and in a sort of private language. He had the camera dwell on her lovingly, so much so that one friend described...
...when the action demands the kind of force that he always delivers as an actor, Newman pulls his punch lines. A half hippie, half religious revival meeting, for example, should have had the kick of LSD. Instead it dissipates and meanders between love and Haight-Ashbury. Moreover, Scenarist Stewart Stern often gets too close to the novel, adopting where he should adapt. Rachel is shackled with prosy monologues that should have been given visual form...
Huntley and Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...