Paul Newman hung up on sports activities journo over ‘whiskey’ anecdote


Veteran sports activities reporter Diane Shah received on the flawed aspect 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 considered one of his college students informed 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, stated, ‘It’s the primary time I’ve touched exhausting stuff in eight years,’ and quietly stated good evening,” the scholar stated. When Shah known as Newman to provide him a heads up she was together with it in her story for Newsweek, she says the actor hung up on her. A couple of days after the story ran, the magazine acquired a telegram stating: “I’m canceling my subscription to Newsweek and subscribing as an alternative to Screw journal. Paul Newman.”



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