With roles as varied as pool shark “Fast” Eddie Felson in 1961’s The Hustler (and 1986’s The Color of Money) and alcoholic lawyer Frank Galvin in 1982’s The Verdict, Paul Newman never ...

By contrast, Paul ... the “young man” himself was part of the problem: Even in his early successes, such as The Long, Hot Summer or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, both from 1958, Newman had a certain ...