W hen it comes to ranking the best Western movie actors, Paul Newman rarely troubles the likes of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, ...

Paul Newman was one of the most radiant movie stars of the mid-20th century. Blue-eyed, sharp-tongued, and effortlessly ...

In the book, Hud rapes Halmea in a drunken rage; on screen, Lonnie steps in and prevents the assault, presumably because somebody worried about pushing Newman-as-villain a little too far for ...

The title character of Martin Ritt’s 1963 anti-western Hud, played with knife-in-the-ribs sharpness by Paul Newman, is a modern cowboy who ticks all those boxes of moral turpitude. Hud prefers ...

“I wonder if anyone ever mistakes him for Paul Newman,” he said. “I’d like to see that.”) The movies that established this cinematic persona were “The Hustler” (1961) and “Hud ...

Paul Newman was born on Jan. 26 ... Newman yet again got a Best Actor nod for his performance as rude, brutish Hud, the ...

Image Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward read a script with ... As he says in the book, whether audiences believed he was Hud or Butch Cassidy or any other film character he played, that was all ...

Paul Schrader (who directed Hawke in “First Reformed”) makes a fascinating observation regarding Newman’s performance in “Hud”: he deems it of immense historical significance ...