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092    BIO|bNEWMAN 
100 1  Newman, Paul,|d1925-2008,|eauthor. 
245 14 The extraordinary life of an ordinary man :|ba memoir /
       |cPaul Newman ; based on interviews and oral histories 
       conducted by Stewart Stern ; compiled and edited by David 
       Rosenthal ; foreword by Melissa Newman ; afterword by Clea
       Newman Soderlund. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2022. 
300    xiv, 297 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
520    "Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman 
       commissioned his best friend to interview actors and 
       directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his 
       first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to 
       create an oral history of his life. After hearing and 
       reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated 
       his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-
       90% Newman's own narrative, interspersed with wonderful 
       stories and recollections by his family, friends, and such
       luminaries as Elia Kazan, Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, 
       Martin Ritt-will be published. This book will surprise and
       even shock people, it reveals unknown sides of Paul Newman
       : funny and tragic, charming and insightful, personal and 
       professional. Newman's traumatic childhood is brilliantly 
       detailed: his terrible relationship with his mother (he 
       says she always considered him purely a decoration, not an
       actual child), his complicated relationship with his 
       father (who once insisted eight-year-old Paul walk home 
       several miles with a broken leg). He talks with 
       extraordinary honesty, insight and humor, about his 
       insecurities as a teenager, his lack of success with women,
       his feelings of failure. Tales of his army years feel like
       a movie in itself. His college years, his early yearnings 
       to be an actor, learning his craft, his acting rivals at 
       the beginning of his career (Brando and Dean), his films 
       (good and bad) - he spares no one, including himself. He 
       discusses the complicated relationship he had with his 
       first wife, his son Scott's death, and his guilt about 
       that death. Perhaps the most moving material in the book 
       comes when he discusses Joanne Woodward-their love for 
       each other, his dependence on her, even their sexually 
       charged life together"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Newman, Paul,|d1925-2008. 
600 10 Newman, Paul,|d1925-2008|vInterviews. 
600 10 Newman, Paul,|d1925-2008|xFriends and associates. 
650  0 Motion picture actors and actresses|zUnited States
       |vBiography. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  Stern, Stewart,|einterviewer. 
700 1  Rosenthal, David,|d1953-|ecompiler,|eeditor.