Robert redford biography interviews paul newman
Excellent Doc with Newman & Redford meeting up shortly before Newman's death.
I first met Paul Newman in , when George Roy Hill, the director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, introduced us in New York City....
The first season finale in this documentary series in which two noteworthy artistic figures interview and profile one another.
This episode focuses on longtime friends and famous co-stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Redford drives up to Newman's Connecticut home, commenting on their early careers in television and theater. Redford recalls that Newman, the far more famous of the two in the 1960s, argued in favor of casting him in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), the first of their two iconic films together.
Redford explains that Newman, who originally considered becoming a schoolteacher, has a shrewd understanding of how to use his fame for good, as demonstrated through the SeriousFun Children's Network (his organization providing ill children around the world with free summer camp programs) rather than "abusing the platform." Redford reunites with his friend for the first time in over a year, and they drive around Connecticut, chatting about how Westport has change