TV-14 | 5h 58min | Documentary, Biography, Film History | 21 July 2022 (USA)
In the mid-1980s Paul Newman recorded over 100 interviews with his friends, family, film industry associates (and even his ex-wife Jackie Witte) for the purpose of preparing a memoir to be co-penned by Stewart Stern (the screenwriter of “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Rachel, Rachel” among others). For reasons known only to him, Newman abandoned the project and burned the recordings.
It’s never made clear if Stern had transcribed the tapes before Newman had destroyed them, but the voluminous pages ultimately landed in the hands of his daughter Clea, a friend of Ethan Hawke….