Saturday, April 01, 2023

Book Review

 


Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is a memoir based on some long recorded interviews by Stuart Stern and then compiled and further edited by David Rosenthal.

And thereby hangs the tale. Aside from some amusing comments about his education at Kenyon College and a few tidbits about his films, there is little to recommend here. Newman’s extended comments are interrupted constantly by little paragraph length blurbs by people who knew him or worked with him or married him. All of this results in a kind of choppy garbled narrative that does no service to Newman or his biographers. Give this one a pass. Barely one star.

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