Veteran sports activities reporter Diane Shah obtained on the improper facet of famously press averse star Paul Newman when she wrote a narrative he didn’t like.
Shah interviewed “The Hustler” star whereas he was directing a play at his alma mater in Ohio, shortly after his son Scott handed in 1978 of a drug overdose. Shah writes in her memoir “A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps,” that certainly one of his college students advised her they tried to cheer Newman up by placing on foolish costumes and ringing his doorbell, handing him a case of beer and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.
“He grinned, took one swig of the whiskey, mentioned, ‘It’s the primary time I’ve touched laborious stuff in eight years,’ and quietly mentioned good evening,” the coed mentioned. When Shah referred to as Newman to present him a heads up she was together with it in her story for Newsweek, she says the actor hung up on her. Just a few days after the story ran, the magazine acquired a telegram stating: “I’m canceling my subscription to Newsweek and subscribing as a substitute to Screw journal. Paul Newman.”
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