America knew the quote by heart. Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home. For fifty years, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were the marriage Hollywood couldn't break. But the affair with a journalist lasted a year and a half, right at the peak of the golden years, and the whole town knew the joke. In 1969, the couple answered the rumors with a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times declaring their devotion. The marriage itself had begun as someone else's ending, a first wife with three babies who was left behind. And in 1991, Newman drove his own taped confessions to the town dump and set them on fire. He never knew the transcripts survived. This is why Joanne Woodward stayed through all of it, and what the burned tapes finally revealed after they were both gone.
America knew the quote by heart. Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home. For fifty years, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were the marriage Hollywood couldn't break. But the affair with a journalist lasted a year and a half, right at the peak of the golden years, and the whole town knew the joke. In 1969, the couple answered the rumors with a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times declaring their devotion. The marriage itself had begun as someone else's ending, a first wife with three babies who was left behind. And in 1991, Newman drove his own taped confessions to the town dump and set them on fire. He never knew the transcripts survived. This is why Joanne Woodward stayed through all of it, and what the burned tapes finally revealed after they were both gone.