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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