It isn’t the lines
Bee Wilson: Paul Newman’s Looks, 16 February 2023
Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
by Paul Newman, edited by David Rosenthal.
Century, 320 pp., £25, October 2022,978 1 5291 9706 8 Show More
by Paul Newman, edited by David Rosenthal.
Century, 320 pp., £25, October 2022,
“... nothing can be a real cool hand.’ He earns the respect of his fellow inmates (including a young Dennis Hopper and Harry Dean Stanton) in a boxing match against another prisoner, Dragline (George Kennedy), through his dogged willingness to offer up his body as a punchbag. It’s one of Newman’s best performances and was forced out of him by ... ”