Paul Newman - Hardcover

Quirk, Lawrence J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878339620 ISBN 13: 9780878339624

Publisher: Taylor Pub, 1997

Synopsis

Film historian and author Lawrence Quirk takes a comprehensive look at one of the more enduring Hollywood legends of our time. PAUL NEWMAN examines all aspects of the great actor/director's life, his characterfair or foulboth on and off screen, from his early career and first marriage to his long union with current wife Joanne Woodward to his battle with the bottle and tragic suicide of his son Scott. photo insert.

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From Library Journal:

Paul Newman is considered by many to be one of the world's greatest actors, and certainly he is a world-famous celebrity. Surprisingly, he has managed to keep his private life out of the tabloids, and relatively few biographies have been written about him. Quirk, long a celebrity biographer and the author of The Films of Paul Newman (Citadel, 1986), here turns his attention to Newman's private life. In a no-nonsense style, Quirk shares the results of his interviews with Newman and his friends and his research of published material. He reveals little-known facts about Newman's first marriage, his heavy drinking, and his son's suicide and its aftermath. The end result is as engaging and revealing as Quirk's biography of Bette Davis (Fasten Your Seat Belts, LJ 2/1/90)?not an easy feat when one's subject is such a private man. Recommended.?Rosellen Brewer, Monterey Bay Area Cooperative Lib. System, Cal.
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Review:

This biography takes a comprehensive approach to this great actor/director's life, examining all aspects of his character, fair or foul, both on and off the screen. An earnest, and sometimes painfully honest biography, Paul Newman explores not only the enigmatic private life of the world-famous star, but also reevaluates many of his most famous films and roles. Incorporating comments made to him personally over 40 years as an entertainment writer, biographer Lawrence Quirk also includes material from his own private interviews with Newman and fresh, new interviews with many who know and/or have worked with Newman. A superb biography. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0878339620
• ISBN 13: 9780878339624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352