{"id":8472,"date":"2008-10-07T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2022-10-16T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:35:18","slug":"a-50-year-marriage-laughter-and-lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8472","title":{"rendered":"A 50-Year Marriage: \u201cLaughter and Lust\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 photos (below the jump) from the extensive Vanity Fair<\/i> slideshow<\/a> made up of photos from Patricia Bosworth’s personal collection. Patricia Bosworth is a playwright and author, longtime member of the Actors Studio, and biographer of Montgomery Clift – excerpt of her magnificent here<\/a>). There are two images in particular that really struck me: the one of Newman and Woodward putting their handprints in the cement outside of Grauman’s … You can see how the faces around them are vaguely serious, maybe even bureaucratic … but the two of them are howling with laughter. It almost seems to be a private moment. Speaking of private moments: the second image in the slideshow I love with the passion of a burning supernova – is the two of them dancing together at home. Goofballs. But look at the fun they’re having!<\/p>\n

Bosworth’s article about Newman in Vanity Fair<\/i> can be read here<\/a>. Small excerpt:<\/p>\n

The first time I saw Paul Newman he was dancing with Marilyn Monroe. It was the summer of 1959 at a noisy Actors Studio party in New York\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Greenwich Village. I had just passed my audition and was being introduced to everyone as a new member by the Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford, one of the Studio\u00e2\u0080\u0099s heads.<\/p>\n

Nobody was paying me much attention\u00e2\u0080\u0094understandably, since they were all watching a barefoot Marilyn, in a skintight black dress, undulate around the living room with Newman, lithe and sinewy in chinos and T-shirt.<\/p>\n

They seemed to be dancing with such rapture; they both kept changing rhythms and sometimes they walk-stepped to the beat. They didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t dance for very long\u00e2\u0080\u0094maybe three minutes\u00e2\u0080\u0094but what a hot, pulsing three minutes it was! They broke apart, Marilyn gave a giggle and a curtsy, and Newman bowed and moved directly past me through the crowd to get a beer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of the Actors Studio, there is also a link in the slideshow to one of my favorite pictures of Newman ever (it’s one that shows up in many of the books I have at home) – the one of him in class at the Actors Studio, 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3 photos (below the jump) from the extensive Vanity Fair slideshow made up of photos from Patricia Bosworth’s personal collection. Patricia Bosworth is a playwright and author, longtime member of the Actors Studio, and biographer of Montgomery Clift – excerpt … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[401,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181898,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions\/181898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}