Yet Paul Newman was an alcoholic, tormented by self-doubt and haunted by insecurities, who questioned his acting ability, hated the fame that manacled him like golden handcuffs to an adoring but intrusive public, and blamed himself for his son Scott's drug and booze overdose death.
In a shockingly honest and self-deprecating new memoir, compiled from hundreds of hours of long-lost tape recordings Newman made in preparation for writing his own biography, he opens up like few other stars have dared. "I am faced with the appalling fact that I don't know anything," the actor confesses in The Extraordinary Life Of An Ordinary Man, published today. "I have great doubts about things. . .
And there are a lot of things I don't get about myself, either. "Celebrity memoirs are often self-congratulatory ego-stroking, a catalogue of successes despite self-destructive urges, or a kiss-and-tell litany of bedroom conquests.
By contrast, Newman approached his self-effacing memoir as a combined confessional, lacerating scourge and therapist's couch. "Here was someone who suspected himself an imposter," says his daughter Melissa Newman, aged 61, "an ordinary man with an extraordinary face and luck on his side".
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