Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward had a ‘f–k hut’ where they’d get ‘intimate, noisy and ribald’: New book

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the actor’s forthcoming posthumous memoir, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” (Knopf, Oct. 18). The book is based on interviews with friends and family and Newman himself over the span of five years in the mid-’80s.The interviews were conducted by Newman and his friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, and they set a rule that everyone be “completely honest.”Newman — who is known for films such as “The Hustler,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” — delved into being a sex symbol in Hollywood, revealing it wasn’t until he met Woodward, that he began to embrace it.“Joanne gave birth to a sexual creature,” Newman says in an excerpt of the book, as seen by People. “We left a trail of lust all over the place.

Hotels and public parks and Hertz rent-a-cars.”The book also describes Newman’s humble beginnings, his insecurities growing up and rise to sex-symbol status.

He was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he was too small to play on the school football team without special permission and awkward around girls.“Girls thought I was a joke.

A happy buffoon,” he says in the book. According to the iconic actor, that changed in 1953 after he met Woodward when they were both understudies in the Broadway play “Picnic.” They began a steamy affair. “I went from being not much of a sexual threat to something else entirely,” the actor said.Newman was married to first wife Jackie Witte at the time, and they had three young children.