They’re the last people who were treated at the beginning of their careers the way Gary Cooper, Katharine Hepburn were treated, and they survived.”
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Vidal gives us the title of the documentary, saying that our protagonists “presided over the end of the movies as the universal art form … I think people will think of them as the last movie stars. Laura Linney and George Clooney take Woodward and Newman Zoe Kazan is Newman’s first wife, Jackie and an amazing Brooks Ashmanskas is Gore Vidal. Hawke’s workaround is to get celebrities of the 20th and 21st centuries to narrate.
I support a time lock that means no one can read/hear it for a century because then you also give people something to look forward to.įortunately, while the tapes were burned (the first two episodes do not mention why, but perhaps we discover this later?), Paul’s friend had transcripts made. But sometimes, as humans, we want to be nosy and know what you said.
Hawke’s entire conceit for the documentary came about because Paul and a friend recorded interviews with more than 100 people in Paul’s life. This all seems very rosy, but the first two episodes of the docuseries strike an impressive balance of admiration for their subjects and clear-sightedness regarding their difficulties and flaws. Paul and his friend started it, and all profits are donated to support children and their families, particularly those dealing with food insecurity. “But what of the salad dressing?” you ask. They attended the 1963 March on Washington, worked for liberal causes - and Paul would wind up on Nixon’s enemies list. This was done while battling the serious obstacle of dueling egos and jealousies over celebrity and star power.
Before that, they had an affair for more than five years, weathered Paul’s divorce from his first wife, and eventually had three children together. Their marriage lasted 50 years, something impressive in any sense but considered a miracle for Hollywood actors. Joanne Woodward won her Oscar in 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve, and Paul Newman’s breakthrough role was in 1956’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, with his star in the definite ascendant in the early ’60s.
They started talking about sex then can you imagine? Let’s take a few steps back there, Doris Day. to watch a Rosalind Russell film that I hadn’t seen yet on TCM, I was too conservatively Christian to enjoy classic films past the 1950s. While I grew up staying awake until 1 a.m. Hawke, who talks to his star cast via Zoom, relating details of his subjects’ lives to them, seems determined to bring Woodward and Newman back into the cultural narrative - something that feels eminently possible within a six-hour docuseries. Ethan Hawke’s six-part documentary examines Woodward and Newman’s marriage, careers, feelings about each other’s success, and the Hollywood era in which they reigned. She is potentially a poor barometer of Woodward and Newman knowledge, but my guess is that many millennials, outside of the men who kept a Hustler poster on their fresh-out-of-college apartment walls, and most of Gen Z do not have a good idea of who these people are. When I told my wife there was a new documentary about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, she, born in the ’90s, jokingly said, “Newman like the salad dressing?” And I had to say yes, that is the same person.
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