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...Paul Newman: A life By Shawn Levy 490 pages; Harmony Books
...Sure, Paul Newman made it all look easy. But as Levy reveals, his ascension up the Hollywood hierarchy was anything but. Though blessed with good luck and good looks, Newman also relied on a rigorous work ethic and a determination to overcome savage criticism. In a typically revealing aside, Levy, a film critic for the Oregonian, recalls a slap the young actor suffered early in his career. In January 1953, after being promoted from understudy to the lead role in the hit Broadway play Picnic, Newman's director told the blue-eyed actor, "You don't carry any sexual threat...
...century, an aberration among Hollywood couples. His was a Tinseltown success story that began strangely - with an accidental admission to an acting school Newman never applied to - and culminated in a legacy as steeped in salad dressing as it is in indelible performances. (See TIME's photo-essay "Paul Newman: His Life in Photographs...
...Given his film expertise, one might expect Levy to build this biography around an analysis of Newman's films and his place in the cinematic canon. Instead, Levy offers reportage as impressive as his critical insights. Paul Newman: A Life is a layered and absorbing portrait of how the actor's personal life differed from his public persona. Levy paints Newman not just as a movie star but as a determined entrepreneur, family man and racer - a man who admitted mistakes as he made them, took advantage of good luck when it came his way, and did his best...
...pictures from Paul Newman's storied career...