Review: In a posthumous memoir, Paul Newman reflects on acting, marriage and his embattled sense of self
A handful of natural gifts elevated Paul Newman’s career above the ranks of the mere movie star. What first won him notice were his eyes. They brought the young actor his smoldering fame: cerulean, intense and steady, they dared you to look away while he filled the screen. In films like “The Long, Hot Summer” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” both from 1958, Newman’s baby blues launched him into the zeitgeist alongside Marlon Brando and James Dean as a matinee idol full of rebellion and edge.
Much later in his career, Newman’s voice became an equally striking feature. Unlike the eyes, the voice had to be earned; it was no pretty boy’s birthright. Decades of smoking, drinking and pain produced a rusty baritone that could narrate its way to the very soul of a man’s regret. Newman’s voice settled into its terminal register in the 1980s, in movies like “Absence of Malice” and “The Color of Money.
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