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This is one of the most moving personal remembrances of Paul Newman I have yet read<\/a> – it’s by Sam Mendes who directed Road to Perdition<\/i>.<\/p>\n I am not sure why I have found it the most moving – I’ve read them all … but I believe it is because it is so specific<\/em>. I love the bit about Newman standing on his hands to entertain the kids in the cast (at age 76) and bringing in steak sandwiches for the cast to try. Right after breakfast.<\/p>\n And then there’s this:<\/p>\n There was another occasion when we were rehearsing and I offered to hang by and pick him up in my car. So my driver stopped, and I told him we were picking up Paul Newman, and he got nervous \u00e2\u0080\u0094 visibly nervous. So then Paul got in the car and suddenly, having driven very normally until this point, my driver takes off like an absolute lunatic at 80 miles an hour through the center of Chicago! Because in his book he\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not only driving Paul Newman the movie star but also Paul Newman the race-car driver. And Paul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s just sitting there calmly reading the front page of the New York Times<\/em>. He perused the paper very casually as we were ducking and diving through the center of Chicago. And we finally screeched to a halt and Paul put down his paper and looked over his little specs and just said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cNice driving.\u00e2\u0080\u009d He knew exactly what the driver was doing \u00e2\u0080\u0094 showing off. Paul must have gotten that all the time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Go read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is one of the most moving personal remembrances of Paul Newman I have yet read – it’s by Sam Mendes who directed Road to Perdition. I am not sure why I have found it the most moving – I’ve … Continue reading