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Paul Newman: Fast Cars, Cold Beers, and Forgotten Memories
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Paul Newman didn’t race cars to outrun his demons. His past was easily kept at bay, like the World War II memories he didn’t want to think about. But like many actors of his generation, the Brando generation, Paul Newman wanted to act like he wasn’t acting. And to do that, he had to tap into real emotions. Forgotten memories. Demons and all. Or so said the Method school of acting. So he dug deep and faced his demons–but not before one of those fast cars of his drove him through a hedgerow, a red light, and an altercation with a cop that nearly sent his career off the road before it really began.
Sources
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir, by Paul Newman
Soaring from Beverly Hills to Paris with Paul Newman’s ‘Gullwing’ (Classic Driver Magazine)
The Paul Newman V8 Beetle (Old Bug)
Paul Newman: The Man Who Defined Being a Man (Men's Journal)
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (2015, dir Adam Carolla and Nate Adams)
On "The Rack" with Paul Newman and Stewart Stern (Roger Ebert)
Who Paul Newman Was—and Who He Wanted to Be (New Yorker)
Paul Newman — Somebody Up There Likes Him (Vintoz)
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Patrick Coman.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Scored and mixed by Joel Edinberg.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak