Word: newman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COOL HAND LUKE. Sadistic guards are unable to shake the sang-froid of a cocky chain-gang prisoner (Paul Newman), who wins the respect of hostile fellow prisoners, until he is finally beaten into groveling for mercy...
There is a kind of sorrow about it all. James W. Newman, the president of the graduate board of the Inter-club committee, commented two weeks ago on the University's purchase of Key and Seal: "The passing of an institution that has received the dedicated efforts of many people over the past 50 years is always a sad thing, no matter what the institution." He might have been talking about the club system...
...script next went to Jean-Luc Godard. "He came over and said, 'Great, let's do it now,'" recalls Newman. "He wanted to leave right away for Texas and do the movie in two weeks." But the producers-two friends of Benton and Newman who had never done a movie before-procrastinated. The film was supposed to take place in summer, they argued, and this was winter. Godard abruptly cooled on the subject. "All they can think of is meteorology," he complained, and flew back to Paris. Exit Godard...
Enter Beatty, who had heard about the script in a Paris conversation with Truffaut. Beatty found Benton and Newman in New York City, liked their work enough to wait out the original producers' option, then bought the property for $75,000, intending to produce as well as direct under a contract with Warner Bros. Sister Shirley was to star as Bonnie. Eventually, he decided that he ought to play Clyde, which meant that Shirley had to go; after all, the picture featured more than enough gore and transgressions without seeming to add incest to injury...
...year from his speculator father, and had acquired an enthusiasm for medieval art. In college, he became friends with "Ned" Burne-Jones; together they doted on every moldy pre-Renaissance stone in the place and, for a while, considered following the celebrated Catholic convert John Henry Newman. They and their friends called themselves a "brotherhood," forerunner of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters...