Lewis Jones

Pretty boy blue

In his memoir Somebody Down Here Likes Me, Too, the boxer Rocky Graziano, on whom Paul Newman based his performance in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), describes the actor in perfect Runyonese:

  • Paul Newman: A Life

    Shawn Levy

    Aurum, pp. 490

  • Paul and Me

    A. E. Hotchner

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 234

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