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In this intimate six-part docuseries, actor/director Ethan Hawke explores the love story and enduring legacy of Hollywood legends Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman.In this intimate six-part docuseries, actor/director Ethan Hawke explores the love story and enduring legacy of Hollywood legends Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman.In this intimate six-part docuseries, actor/director Ethan Hawke explores the love story and enduring legacy of Hollywood legends Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman.
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- TriviaWhile describing the often-fraught relationship between Paul Newman and his difficult mother, this documentary recounts an argument between them in which Newman's mother, in an attempt to hurt him, claims that she "knows" that Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, has been having an affair with their friend, Gore Vidal. This led to Newman cutting his mother out of his life for many years afterward. What the documentary does not explain at the moment the story is recounted is why Newman knew this story could not possibly be true: although Woodward and Vidal were briefly engaged when both were very young, Vidal was gay and later in her life Woodward said that the engagement had been only for publicity purposes. In fact, Vidal was one of the few openly gay well-known American public figures during the mid-twentieth century; in 1967, Vidal appeared in the network TV news special The Homosexuals (1967) of CBS Reports (1959) in which he was one of the only self-identified LGBTQ+ people to appear onscreen without his identity being somehow obscured, either facially or through the use of a pseudonym.
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I watched this doc in two days. I have a lot of different thoughts about this documentary (Not all included below).
None of my thoughts that I am contemplating have anything to do with the INTEGRITY of the purpose of this doc being made. I have no problem with the interview process, nor the substitution of voice overs for those particular folks that are no longer among us...,What the hay are you commenters talking about with negating Ethan communing with his voice over actors 🤷♀️...not to mention the tidbits of history shared...
About absorbing it all...P&J's lives, including the lives that they affected has hit home for me. I do think, for those of us that have been through a similar parenting and or marriage situation...right or wrong, it is life that we are observing/living, whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, since we all are human beings are we not...
I know that I have seen what TCM airs of Joanne's movies because they were airing a male name (I could have missed tcm's focus on JW)...just saying that TCM needs to up their focus (I did view TCM's sit down with Ethan Hawk), and so does all of the other streamers that have access to Joanne Woodward's work. Can we get the stage plays...I'm willing to pay...
Thank you, Ethan Hawke, for following through on this documentary to its airing and then some.. I am a long time admirer of your talent and passion for your craft.
My complete empathy for the families of JW and PLN for the airing of your families "laundry" whether you agreed to it or not. I've walked your walk albeit with less the infamy. You will survive this 💪
None of my thoughts that I am contemplating have anything to do with the INTEGRITY of the purpose of this doc being made. I have no problem with the interview process, nor the substitution of voice overs for those particular folks that are no longer among us...,What the hay are you commenters talking about with negating Ethan communing with his voice over actors 🤷♀️...not to mention the tidbits of history shared...
About absorbing it all...P&J's lives, including the lives that they affected has hit home for me. I do think, for those of us that have been through a similar parenting and or marriage situation...right or wrong, it is life that we are observing/living, whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, since we all are human beings are we not...
I know that I have seen what TCM airs of Joanne's movies because they were airing a male name (I could have missed tcm's focus on JW)...just saying that TCM needs to up their focus (I did view TCM's sit down with Ethan Hawk), and so does all of the other streamers that have access to Joanne Woodward's work. Can we get the stage plays...I'm willing to pay...
Thank you, Ethan Hawke, for following through on this documentary to its airing and then some.. I am a long time admirer of your talent and passion for your craft.
My complete empathy for the families of JW and PLN for the airing of your families "laundry" whether you agreed to it or not. I've walked your walk albeit with less the infamy. You will survive this 💪
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