Legends and Lipstick: My Scandalous Stories of Hollywood's Golden Era

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She hated his philandering, too — indeed there was at least one hamburger. This loving but deeply complicated relationship, not to mention the restlessly unhappy personality that lay underneath Newman's on-screen charm, is detailed in a six-part documentary made by Ethan Hawke. The actor, who made his name in the Dead Poet's Society, was asked by Newman and Woodward's children to make The Last Movie Stars (on HBO in the U.S. and coming to the UK soon) because they felt there needed to be an account of the pair's often fraught life together. But months later they worked together as understudies in a Broadway play called Picnic and fell for each other. Newman said: 'It took me time to persuade her I wasn't as dull as I looked.'

Jada Pinkett Smith admits Will's Oscars slap was the moment she decided to stay with him... and reveals 'non-traditional' relationship is their way forward How do you explain bad news to your child? A psychotherapist reveals his 5 tips for helping them understand (and what to NEVER say) Newman described himself as completely unprepared to be a parent—he had children because that’s what people did when they got married—and he worried that he never related to his kids as people. “I would not want to have been one of my children,” he told an old college drama teacher of his. When his son, Scott, died from an accidental overdose after a troubled life, Newman felt remorse for not having connected with him. “Many are the times I have gotten down on my knees and asked for Scott’s forgiveness,” he told Stern. Viewers say graphic violence on post-watershed TV is now the 'norm'... but portrayal of sex has become fairer to womenNancy "Buni" Bacon was a pinup model and appeared on the covers of countless lad-mags in the 1960s. She appeared in a couple of movies, and she worked Olivia Rodrigo is dating British actor Louis Partridge after meeting 'through mutual friends' and hitting it off after a number of nights out in London

King Charles expresses his 'greatest sorrow and deepest regret' over Britain's colonial past and says there... That persona derived not from the Broadway stage but from Westerns. On the stage, you have to act. In the movies, if the camera loves you, you just have to be in the frame. The movie camera loved Paul Newman as it has loved few other leading men, and he made a career out of underacting—just as the actor he was often compared to starting out, Marlon Brando, made a career out of overacting. (Newman admired Brando, but the comparison annoyed him. “I wonder if anyone ever mistakes him for Paul Newman,” he said. “I’d like to see that.”)Little Mix's Perrie Edwards and son Axel look unrecognisable after incredible Ratatouille transformation for Halloween

The biography also alleges that Paul had affairs with James Dean, Tony Perkins, Sal Mineo, Brandon de Wilde, and John Derek. Many of the rumors of Newman’s infidelity are widely exaggerated, but it is entirely possible Paul was bisexual. Matthew Perry's ex Molly Hurwitz 'wishes' Friends star had not 'thrown away' their relationship by messaging a 19-YEAR-OLD girl on Raya PICTURED: Maya Jama and Stormzy seen having heated argument in an alleyway during trip to LA after rekindling romance - as she breaks her silenceHis daughters tell the documentary that Newman was a 'functioning alcoholic' who was never late for work nor, indeed, looked the worse for wear in public. And he got on so badly with his overbearing mother that, after she once suggested Woodward was having an affair with their friend Gore Vidal, he threw her out of their taxi and didn't speak to her for 15 years.