One likes to think Newman himself would have approved this brief but fairly comprehensive overview.
#THE WHO BEHIND BLUE EYES DRIVER#
Newman's offscreen passion as a serious race-car driver (fuel for an entire nonfiction feature, 2015's Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman) is barely mentioned more is said about his progressive politics, charity works and the foundation Newman and Woodward started in the name of actor-son Scott Newman, a drug-overdose fatality in 1978. Hotchner, or, especially, Newman's second wife and longtime creative partner Joanne Woodward (who figured prominently among the five well-received movies that Newman himself directed, starting with Rachel, Rachel, in 1968). Yes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidrates a generous mention, though there is no input from co-star Robert Redford, author-friend A.E. Associates and interviewees include actors James Naughton, Ellen Burstyn, and Brigitte Fossey, and director Ron Shelton-who while making Blaze (1989), found himself coaching a shy Newman through the male sex symbol's first on-camera lovemaking. Gaudry skims past popular hits like The Sting, The Towering Inferno, and Slap Shot to examine lesser-known titles and interesting misfires in Newman's filmography: the jazz feature Paris Blues (1961), the screwball comedy Rally Round the Flag Boys! (1958) and Robert Altman's apocalyptic Quintet (1979).Īs a person, Newman is remembered as a low-key but ever-polite and prepared professional, who stoically endured showbiz celebrity and preferred his privacy. Newman found more rewards in subsequent solid dramas, grownup westerns, and literary adaptations: Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), The Left-Handed Gun (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (for which he was Oscar-nominated for 1958), Exodus (1960) and many others. His blue-eyed good looks and quiet intensity won comparisons to contemporary "Method" sensation Marlon Brando, and it was a sort of Brando clone that Hollywood served up Newman in his celluloid debut, an ill-remembered 1955 Bible epic, The Silver Chalice (from the Thomas Costain novel), a picture the future superstar famously disdained.
#THE WHO BEHIND BLUE EYES TV#
Fired with the potential of the stage-and, later, screen and TV -the young Newman studied at the Actors Studio. Scion of a family of Cleveland-area sporting-goods/outdoors merchants (Paul just did not find the "romance" in retail, he says in interview clips), Newman turned to acting as a fluke it was a recreational outlet for him during somewhat rowdy student days at a small Ohio college. His enduring career and legacy really deserve more than just an hour, but this rates as a respectful retrospective. This is one of The Who’s greatest songs because it’s so introspective! While it’s easy to read Townshend’s lyrics as being a little selfish, it’s also worth noting that we to really see deep into what Townshend thinks of himself at the end of the day.Documentarian Pierre-François Gaudry salutes iconic actor-director Paul Newman. One of their most popular songs, ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ is a constant staple at every Who show.
As a result, we don’t really know who Pete is beyond what we see on a surface level. We know Pete as the guitarist we love to hate, but who is it behind those piercing blue eyes that’s so desperate to get out?
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