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Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man — Clea Newman in Conversation with David Rosenthal

Jan 18, 2023

In 1986, legendary actor Paul Newman set out to record an oral history of his life with his friend Stewart Stern — nearly four decades later, it has arrived in the form of a memoir.

Join Clea Newman, daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, as she and David Rosenthal discuss The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man — her late father’s deeply candid new memoir resulting from thousands of pages of transcripts taken from five years of interviews. For the first time, Clea discusses her father’s untold stories — his traumatic childhood, his early rivalries with Marlon Brando and James Dean, his struggles with alcohol, intimate details about his long, loving marriage to Joanne Woodward, and more. Hear Clea and David Rosenthal on this deeply personal account of one of Hollywood’s most revered stars — how the project took shape, the long editorial process, Clea’s own candid memories of her father, why he insisted on candor and honesty, and much more.

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