Shawn Levy

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody''s Fool. But Newman was also an oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared about the craft of acting, the sexy leading man known for the staying power of his marriage, and the humble celebrity who made philanthropy his calling card long before it was cool. The son of a successful entrepreneur, Newman grew up in a prosperous Cleveland suburb. Despite fears that he would fail to live up to his father''s expectations, Newman bypassed the family sporting goods business to pursue an acting career. After struggling as a theater and television actor, Newman saw his star rise in a tragic twist of fate, landing the role of boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me when James Dean was killed in a car accident. Though he would joke about instances of "Newman''s luck" throughout his career, he refused to coast on his stunning boyish looks and impish charm. Part of the original Actors Studio generation, Newman demanded a high level of rigor and clarity from every project. The artistic battles that nearly derailed his early movie career would pay off handsomely at the box office and earn him critical acclaim. He applied that tenacity to every endeavor both on and off the set. The outspoken Newman used his celebrity to call attention to political causes dear to his heart, including civil rights and nuclear proliferation. Taking up auto racing in midlife, Newman became the oldest driver to ever win a major professional auto race. A food enthusiast who would dress his own salads in restaurants, he launched the Newman''s Own brand dedicated to fresh ingredients, a nonprofit juggernaut that has generated more than $250 million for charity. In Paul Newman: A Life, film critic and pop culture historian Shawn Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of the actor''s life, from his merry pranks on the set to his lasting romance with Joanne Woodward to the devastating impact of his son''s death from a drug overdose. This definitive biography is a fascinating portrait of an extraordinarily gifted man who gave back as much as he got out of life and just happened to be one of the most celebrated movie stars of the twentieth century.

SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEARUproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biographySunday TimesTeeming with satisfying gossipy detailsGuardianExalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heydayTLS1950s Rome. From the ashes of war, the Eternal City is reborn as the epicentre of film, style and boldfaced libertinism. Movie stars including Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor flock to Cinecitta studio and mix with blue bloods and bohemians at the bars on Via Veneto, while behind them trail street photographers in pursuit of the most unflattering and dramatic portraits of fame. In a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic narrative, Shawn Levy recreates Romes ascent with compelling tales of its glitterati and artists, down to every last outrageous detail of the citys magnificent transformation into Hollywood on the Tiber.

Shawn Levy, author of Rat Pack Confidential brings alive London in the swinging Sixties with a gripping, groovy story of those who created the scene that changed the world. This edition does not include illustrations. For a few years in the 1960s, London was the coolest city on earth: a spontaneous, dizzying stew of pop music, fashion, film, scandal, drugs & sex, crime, the avant garde underground and the tabloid obsession with fame. The rest of the world watched in awe. Snaking through it are such eminent swinging Londoners as The Dreamer (actor Terence Stamp), The Chameleon (Rolling Stone Mick Jagger), The Loner (Beatles manager Brian Epstein), The Snapper (photographer David Bailey) and The Blue Blood (art dealer Robert Fraser), as well as such figures as comedian Peter Cook; hairdresser Vidal Sassoon; singer Marianne Faithfull; fashion designer Mary Quant; supermodels Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy; gangsters Ron and Reggie Kray; actor Michael Caine; actresses Catherine Deneuve, Lynn Redgrave and Julie Christie; pop groups The Beatles, The Who and The Kinks; filmmakers Roman Polanski, Richard Lester and Michelangelo Antonioni; as well as the various participants in the Profumo scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the rise of LSD, the radical underground, the heyday of the gambling club and the fashion boutique and various and sundry scandals, scenes and sensations. Due to a combination of massive talent and sheer luck, they dominated the world scene. But the party was to end after seven short years it seemed that everyone was now a Swinging Londoner and the same vibe was found in Paris, New York and San Francisco. Ready, Steady, Go recreates the whole show and contrasts a series of emblematic lives with the great events that shaped the time. Through these stories, Shawn Levy, author of Rat Pack Confidential, shows how the city reinvented cool and then seemed to lose its swing altogether.

The definitiveand salacioushistory of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight.... This is the definitive book about Hollywoods most storied hotel. Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of WildSince 1929, Hollywoods brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. An apartment building-turned-hotel, the Chateau has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: where director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose; and Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50,000 in charges in less than two months. But despite its mythic reputation, much of what has happened inside the Chateaus walls has eluded the public eyeuntil now. With wit and insight, Shawn Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons, the creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, the births and deaths to which the hotel has been a party. Vivid, salacious, and richly informed, The Castle on Sunset is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from inside the walls of its most hallowed hotel.

A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL. The Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa died at 8:00 am on July 5, 1965, when he smashed his Ferrari into a tree in Paris. He was 56 years old and on his way home to his 28-year-old fifth wife, Odile Rodin, after a nights debauch in celebration of a victorious polo match. In the previous four decades, Rubirosa had on four separate occasions married one of the wealthiest women in the world, and had slept with hundreds of other women including Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ava Gardner, and Eva Peron. He had worked as aide-de-camp to one of the most vicious fascists the century ever knew. He had served as an ambassador to France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Argentina and Vichy. He had been a jewel thief, a forger, a shipping magnate, a treasure hunter. He had held his own with the worlds most powerful and notorious men including John F. Kennedy, Josef Goebbels and Juan Peron. He ran comfortably celebrity circles, counting among his friends Frank Sinatra, Ted Kennedy, David Niven, Sammy Davis Jr., and fellow playboy Aly Khan. He lived for the moment and, at his death, faded without a legacy: no children, no fortune, no entity financial, cultural, even architectural that bore his name. There will never be anyone else like Porfiro Rubirosa. Indeed, the really amazing thing is that there ever was. Shawn Levy celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL, and READY, STEADY, GO has been given unique access to primary material including FBI and CIA files in his search for the last playboy.

A sensitive and vivid study of early female stand-ups [Levy is a] painstaking, knowledgeable guide. New York Times Book Review A hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls so they could stand before the micperfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and HacksToday, women are ascendant in stand-up comedy, even preeminent. They make headlines, fill arenas, spawn blockbuster movies. But before Amy Schumer slayed, Tiffany Haddish killed, and Ali Wong drew roars, the very idea of a female comedian seemed, to most of America, like a punch line. And it took a special sort of womanindeed, a parade of themto break and remake the mold.In on the Joke is the story of a group of unforgettable women who knocked down the doors of stand-up comedy so other women could get a shot. It spans decades, from Moms Mableys rise in Black vaudeville between the world wars, to the roadhouse ribaldry of Belle Barth and Rusty Warren in the 1950s and 60s, to Elaine Mays co-invention of improv comedy, to Joan Riverss and Phyllis Dillers ferocious ascent to mainstream stardom. These women refused to be defined by type and tradition, facing down indifference, puzzlement, nay-saying, and unvarnished hostility. They were discouraged by agents, managers, audiences, critics, fellow performerseven their families. And yet they persevered against the tired notion that women couldnt be funny, making space not only for themselves, but for the women who followed them.Meticulously researched and irresistibly drawn, Shawn Levys group portrait forms a new pantheon of comedy excellence. In on the Joke shows how women broke into the boys club, offered new ideas of womanhood, and had some laughs along the way.

For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank brought his best pals to party in a land called VegasJanuary 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Strip is a jet-age theme park, and the greatest singer in the history of American popular music summons a group of friends there to make a movie. One is an insouciant singer of Italian songs, ex-partner to the most popular film comedian of the day. One is a short, black, Jewish, one-eyed, singing, dancing wonder. One is an upper-crust British pretty boy turned degenerate B-movie star actor, brother-in-law to an ascendant politician. And one is a stiff-shouldered comic with the quintessential Borscht Belt emcees knack for needling one-liners. The architectonically sleek marquee of the Sands Hotel announces their presence simply by listing their names: FRANK SINATRA. DEAN MARTIN. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. PETER LAWFORD. JOEY BISHOP. Around them an entire cast gathers: actors, comics, singers, songwriters, gangsters, politicians, and women, as well as thousands of starstruck everyday folks who fork over pocketfuls of money for the privilege of basking in their presence. They call themselves The Clan. But to an awed world, they are known as The Rat Pack.They had it all. Fame. Gorgeous women. A fabulouse playground of a city and all the money in the world. The backing of fearsome crime lords and the blessing of the President of the United States. But the dark sideover the thin line between pleasure and debauchery, between swinging self-confidence and brutal arrogancetook its toll. In four years, their great ride was over, and showbiz was never the same. Acclaimed Jerry Lewis biographer Shawn Levy has written a dazzling portrait of a time when neon brightness cast sordid shadows. It was Franks World, and we just lived in it.

For nearly ninety years, Hollywoods brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairy-tale castle, the Chateau seems to come from another world entirely. An apartment-house-turned-hotel, it has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: 1930s bombshell Jean Harlow took lovers during her third honeymoon there; director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Anthony Perkins and Tab Hunter met poolside and began a secret affair; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies, once nearly falling to his death; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose in a private bungalow; Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50,000 in charges in less than two months. Much of whats happened inside the Chateaus walls has eluded the public eye - until now. With wit and prowess, Shawn Levy recounts the wild parties and scandalous liaisons, creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, births and untimely deaths that the Chateau Marmont has given rise to. Vivid, salacious and richly informed, the book is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from the suites and bungalows of its most hallowed hotel.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER [This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us cant aspire to having Newmans life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.The Washington Post A graceful tribute to a one-of-a-kind man.The Seattle TimesNewmans life was never dull, and Levy re-creates it in vivid detail.ParadePaul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobodys Fool. But Newman was also an oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared about the craft of acting, the sexy leading man known for the staying power of his marriage, and the humble celebrity who made philanthropy his calling card long before it was cool. Unlike his father, a successful entrepreneur, Newman bypassed the family sporting goods business to pursue an acting career. After struggling as a theater and television actor, Newman landed the lead role of boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me when, in a tragic twist of fate, James Dean was killed in a car accident. Part of the original Actors Studio generation, Newman demanded a high level of rigor and clarity from every project. The artistic battles that nearly derailed his early movie career would pay off handsomely at the box office and earn him critical acclaim.He applied that tenacity to every endeavor both on and off the set. The outspoken Newman used his celebrity to call attention to political causes dear to his heart, including civil rights and nuclear proliferation. Taking up auto racing in midlife, Newman became the oldest driver to ever win a major professional auto race. A food enthusiast who would dress his own salads in restaurants, he launched the Newmans Own brand dedicated to fresh ingredients, a nonprofit juggernaut that has generated more than $250 million for charity.In Paul Newman: A Life, Shawn Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of the actors life, from his merry pranks on the set to his lasting romance with Joanne Woodward to the devastating impact of his sons death from a drug overdose. This expansive biography is a portrait of an extraordinarily gifted man who gave back as much as he got out of lifeand just happened to be one of the most celebrated movie stars of the twentieth century.

REMARKABLE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ICON Theres little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time. His work, particularly in the first 20 years of his career, is unparalleled. Mean Streets, the Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, the Deer Hunter, and Raging Bull all dazzled moviegoers and critics alike, displaying a talent the likes of which had rarely--if ever--been seen. De Niro become known for his deep involvement in his characters, assuming that role completely into his own life, resulting in extraordinary, chameleonic performances. Yet little is known about the off-screen De Niro--he is an intensely private man, whose rare public appearances are often marked by inarticulateness and palpable awkwardness. It can be almost painful to watch at times, in powerful contrast to his confident movie personae. In this elegant and compelling biography, bestselling writer Shawn Levy writes of these many De Niros--the characters and the man--seeking to understand the evolution of an actor who once dove deeply into his roles as if to hide his inner nature, and who now seemingly avoids acting challenges, taking roles which make few apparent demands on his overwhelming talent. Following De Niros roots as the child of artists (his father, the abstract painter Robert De Niro Sr., was widely celebrated) who encouraged him from an early age to be independent of vision and spirit, to his intense schooling as an actor, the rise of his career, his marriages, his life as a father, restauranteur, and businessman, and, of course, his current movie career, Levy has written a biography that reads like a novel about a character whose inner turmoil takes him to heights of artistry. His many friendships with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Shelley Winters, Francis Ford Coppola, among many others, are woven into this extraordinary portrait of DeNiro the man and the artist, also adding a depth of understanding not before seen. Levy has had unprecedented access to De Niros personal research and production materials, creating a new impression of the effort that went into the actors legendary performances. The insights gained from DeNiros intense working habits shed new perspective on DeNiros thinking and portrayals and are wonderful to read. Levy also spoke to De Niros collaborators and friends to depict De Niros transition from an ambitious young man to a transfixing and enigmatic artist and cultural figure. Shawn Levy has written a truly engaging, insightful, and entertaining portrait of one of the most wonderful film artists of our time, a book that is worthy of such a great talent.

The first biography of the Rat Pack Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop et al the original Swingers. Brilliant and beautifully written story of their rise and fall, and their connections with the Kennedys and the Mafia. This edition does not include illustrations. They alit in Las Vegas for a month to make a movie and play a historic nightclub gig they called the Summit; they hit Miami, the Utah desert, Palm Springs, Chicago, Atlantic City, Beverly Hills, Hollywood back lots, illegal gambling dens, saloons, yachts, private jets, the White House itself. It was sauce and vinegar and eau de cologne and sour mash whiskey and gin and smoke and perfume and silk and neon and skinny lapels and tail fins and rockets to the sky. It was swinging and sighing and being a sharpie, it was cutting a figure and digging a scene. It was Frank and Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin and Peter Lawford for a while and Joey Bishop when they asked him and Jack Kennedy and Sam Giancana and tables full of cronies and who knew how many broads. It was the ultimate spasm of traditional showbiz both the last and the most of its kind. It was the Rat Pack. It was beautiful. Rat Pack Confidential youre never far from a cocktail, a swingin affair and a fist-fight.

La primera gran biografía de Paul Newman, uno de los grandes actores de todos los tiempos.Existen pocas miradas tan inolvidables como la de Paul Newman. En su rostro apolíneo se reflejaron todos los matices de la condicion humana a lo largo de una de las carreras cinematograficas mas brillantes, firmes y coherentes del siglo XX. Todo el mundo recordara siempre sus ojos azules y su sonrisa, pero ¿quien fue realmente Paul Newman? Shawn Levy, uno de los mas respetados criticos de cine estadounidenses, construye en este libro imprescindible el primer gran retrato biografico del legendario actor. Con vigoroso pulso narrativo, Levy nos cuenta sus origenes en Cleveland, sus primeros y dificiles pasos como actor de teatro y television, sus años de formacion en el mitico Actors Studio o su impresionante salto a la fama gracias a un papel que deberia haber interpretado James Dean. Tambien aparece aqui el Newman mas desconocido: su largo matrimonio con Joanne Woodward, su dificil paternidad, su faceta de empresario y su tardia entrega a la direccion cinematografica.El resultado es un apasionante relato sobre la vida intima y publica de un magnifico actor, sobre las experiencias de un gran hombre y, en definitiva, sobre el cine y el mundo en el siglo pasado.La criticaha dicho Profusamente investigado. [] Poder deleitarse con las ideas de Newman basta para revivir, aunque sea brevemente, a esta estrella unica en su especie. Y para volver a echarle terriblemente de menos cuando se pasa la ultima pagina.USATodayLevy revela las grietas [] sin dejar de apreciar con profundidad al hombre.PeopleEste libro bien documentado nos recuerda por que nos encantaba tener a Newman entre nosotros.NewYorkDaily NewsNitido, inteligente e incisivo.Boston PhoenixUn gran homenaje a Newman.TimeUn relato rico. [] Es testamento de la capacidad narrativa de Levy que consiga hacer que una hoja de lechuga suene tan espectacular como trabajar con Robert Redford o Tom Cruise. [] Se lee solo.ClevelandPlain DealerElocuente y perspicaz. [] La biografia de Levy, meticulosamente investigada, es el retrato mas revelador que se pueda esperar.ChristianScience MonitorUna excelente y entrañable vision de conjunto de Paul Newman [], una maravillosa medida del hombre.Pittsburgh Post-GazetteFascinante. Una biografia rica, solida y muy amena de un gran icono del cine estadounidense.TheOregonian

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year, New York Times "Editors Choice," and Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book""This is the biography of Clint Eastwood weve been waiting for." Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Sergio LeoneFrom the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in movie history and an imposing icon of American culture for six decades."This fine-grained and deeply researched unfolding of Eastwoods life and career . . . reveal[s] fascinating truths about Eastwoods art, and about cinema itself. Richard Brody, The New YorkerC-L-I-N-T. That single short, sharp syllable has stood as an emblem of American manhood and morality and sheer bloody-minded will, on-screen and off-screen, for more than sixty years. Whether hes facing down bad guys on a Western street (Old West or new, no matter), staring through the lens of a camera, or accepting one of his movies thirteen Oscars (including two for Best Picture), he is as blunt, curt, and solid as his name, a star of the old-school stripe and one of the most accomplished directors of his time, a man of rock and iron and brute force: Clint.To read the story of Clint Eastwood is to understand nearly a century of American culture. No Hollywood figure has so completely and complexly stood inside the changing climates of postWorld War II America. At age ninety-five, he has lived a tumultuous century and embodied much of his time and many of its contradictions.We picture Clint squinting through cigarillo smoke in A Fistful of Dollars or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; imposing rough justice at the point of a .44 Magnum in Dirty Harry; sowing vengeance in The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pale Rider or Unforgiven; grudgingly training a woman boxer in Million Dollar Baby; and standing up for his neighbors despite his racism in Gran Torino. Or we feel him present, powerfully, behind the camera, creating complex tales of violence, morality, and humanity, such as Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima, and American Sniper. But his roles and his films, however well cast and convincing, are two-dimensional in comparison to his whole life.As Shawn Levy reveals in this masterful biographythe most complete portrait yet of Eastwoodthe reality is richer, knottier, and more absorbing. Clint: The Man and the Movies is a saga of cunning, determination, and conquest, a story about a man ascending to the Hollywood pantheon while keeping one foot firmly planted outside its door.

La primera gran biografía de Paul Newman, uno de los grandes actores de todos los tiempos. Existen pocas miradas tan inolvidables como la de Paul Newman. En su rostro apolíneo se reflejaron todos los matices de la condicion humana a lo largo de una de las carreras cinematograficas mas brillantes, firmes y coherentes del siglo XX. Todo el mundo recordara siempre sus ojos azules y su sonrisa, pero ¿quien fue realmente Paul Newman? Shawn Levy, uno de los mas respetados criticos de cine estadounidenses, construye en este libro imprescindible el primer gran retrato biografico del legendario actor. Con vigoroso pulso narrativo, Levy nos cuenta sus origenes en Cleveland, sus primeros y dificiles pasos como actor de teatro y television, sus años de formacion en el mitico Actors Studio o su impresionante salto a la fama gracias a un papel que deberia haber interpretado James Dean. Tambien aparece aqui el Newman mas desconocido: su largo matrimonio con Joanne Woodward, su dificil paternidad, su faceta de empresario y su tardia entrega a la direccion cinematografica. El resultado es un apasionante relato sobre la vida intima y publica de un magnifico actor, sobre las experiencias de un gran hombre y, en definitiva, sobre el cine y el mundo en el siglo pasado.La critica ha dichoProfusamente investigado. [] Poder deleitarse con las ideas de Newman basta para revivir, aunque sea brevemente, a esta estrella unica en su especie. Y para volver a echarle terriblemente de menos cuando se pasa la ultima pagina.USA Today Levy revela las grietas [] sin dejar de apreciar con profundidad al hombre.PeopleEste libro bien documentado nos recuerda por que nos encantaba tener a Newman entre nosotros.New York Daily News Nitido, inteligente e incisivo.Boston PhoenixUn gran homenaje a Newman.Time Un relato rico. [] Es testamento de la capacidad narrativa de Levy que consiga hacer que una hoja de lechuga suene tan espectacular como trabajar con Robert Redford o Tom Cruise. [] Se lee solo.Cleveland Plain DealerElocuente y perspicaz. [] La biografia de Levy, meticulosamente investigada, es el retrato mas revelador que se pueda esperar.Christian Science Monitor Una excelente y entrañable vision de conjunto de Paul Newman [], una maravillosa medida del hombre.Pittsburgh Post-GazetteFascinante. Una biografia rica, solida y muy amena de un gran icono del cine estadounidense.The Oregonian

La primera gran biografía de Paul Newman, uno de los grandes actores de todos los tiempos. Existen pocas miradas tan inolvidables como la de Paul Newman. En su rostro apolíneo se reflejaron todos los matices de la condicion humana a lo largo de una de las carreras cinematograficas mas brillantes, firmes y coherentes del siglo XX. Todo el mundo recordara siempre sus ojos azules y su sonrisa, pero ¿quien fue realmente Paul Newman? Shawn Levy, uno de los mas respetados criticos de cine estadounidenses, construye en este libro imprescindible el primer gran retrato biografico del legendario actor. Con vigoroso pulso narrativo, Levy nos cuenta sus origenes en Cleveland, sus primeros y dificiles pasos como actor de teatro y television, sus años de formacion en el mitico Actors Studio o su impresionante salto a la fama gracias a un papel que deberia haber interpretado James Dean. Tambien aparece aqui el Newman mas desconocido: su largo matrimonio con Joanne Woodward, su dificil paternidad, su faceta de empresario y su tardia entrega a la direccion cinematografica. El resultado es un apasionante relato sobre la vida intima y publica de un magnifico actor, sobre las experiencias de un gran hombre y, en definitiva, sobre el cine y el mundo en el siglo pasado.

La primera gran biograf#a de Paul Newman, uno de los grandes actores de todos los tiempos. La muerte de Paul Newman conmocion# a todo el mundo. La arrolladora personalidad del actor, acompa#ada de su f#sico apol#neo, marcaron el cine de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Estamos ante un icono, un verdadero mito, pero pocos saben c#mo fue su vida. En este apasionante libro se narran con detalle todos los avatares de su vida, su largo matrimonio con Joan Woodward, la muerte de su hijo por drogadicci#n, su extraordinario talento como actor y tambi#n como director, sus diversas iniciativas empresariales, su relaci#n con otros colegas y con el mundo del cine en general. En definitiva, un libro maravilloso para un actor inolvidable.