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Veteran sports reporter Diane Shah got on the wrong side of famously press averse star Paul Newman when she wrote a story he didn’t like. Shah interviewed “The Hustler” star while he was directing a play at his alma mater in Ohio, shortly after his son Scott passed in 1978 of a drug overdose. Shah …
Veteran sports reporter Diane Shah got on the wrong side of famously press averse star Paul Newman when she wrote a story he didn’t like.
Shah interviewed “The Hustler” star while he was directing a play at his alma mater in Ohio, shortly after his son Scott passed in 1978 of a drug overdose. Shah writes in her memoir “A Farewell to Arms, Legs, and Jockstraps,” that one of his students told her they tried to cheer Newman up by putting on silly costumes and ringing his doorbell, handing him a case of beer and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.
“He grinned, took one swig of the whiskey, said, ‘It’s the first time I’ve touched hard stuff in eight years,’ and quietly said good night,” the student said. When Shah called Newman to give him a heads up she was including it in her story for Newsweek, she says the actor hung up on her. A few days after the story ran, the mag received a telegram stating: “I’m canceling my subscription to Newsweek and subscribing instead to Screw magazine. Paul Newman.”
