Paul Newman by Shawn Levy

Author:Shawn Levy [Levy, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-46253-4
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2009-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

THAT FALL Newman took Joanne on a trip to San Francisco so that he could be fêted at the San Francisco Film Festival. One thousand folks at the Palace of Fine Arts theater watched a couple of hours of clips from his career—all of it, including The Silver Chalice and WUSA. Newman took questions afterward. There were parties—a private do in John Foreman’s suite at the Mark Hopkins (Newman drank beer), then a hop up a hill somewhere to the mansion of some festival board members (Newman stopped the limo at a grocery store so he could grab a sixer), then another party someplace else, complete with a Black Watch Piper. Later in the weekend there was the premiere of a Newman-Foreman production, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, in which photographer Jerry Schatzberg directed his girlfriend, Faye Dunaway, as a fashion model who makes it big and then has an emotional breakdown.

As usual, the sheer presence of Newman wowed the locals. At the fancy party a society matron who’d been heard sniffing about “movie people” went absolutely speechless when introduced to him. In the hotel the staff were so dazzled that they sought relics of him. “They even took the dental floss out of the trash can,” a friend recalled. “I don’t think many people could handle that as well as Paul.” He demonstrated a bit of heroism, or at least Eagle Scout–ishness, when he was visiting Ghirardelli Square with Joanne and reunited a lost girl with her mother; the woman, who was in a panic, was so stunned by the appearance of Newman with her daughter on his shoulders that she stammered a thank-you and walked away without the child. “Haven’t you forgotten something?” Newman asked her.

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