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Several watches are being sold as part of the auction. “My parents shared a passion for antiques and vintage items, the quirkier the better,” their daughter Melissa Newman said in a Sotheby’s auction catalog. The couple’s personalities also emerge in some of the more unusual furniture showcased in the auction. “Dad loved to pull pranks on his friends,” his daughter Clea Newman said a Sotheby’s auction catalog. “One of his favorite bits was making everyone who arrived late sit on the pig bench for their meeting.
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Why Editing Paul Newman’s Memoir Called for a Cool Hand
  + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Caryn James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
“Would I like to probe him a bit more about his son’s death?” says Peter Gethers (who acquired ‘The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man’ for Knopf) about the challenge of editing a memoir by a non-living writer. “Would I like to probe him more about the drinking?” Newman is seen here in 1963 on a water taxi in Venice. “It was, and still is, a fraught decision,” Melissa Newman says about her family choosing to publish The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir, by her father, Paul Newman. Instead, he left more than 10,000 disorganized pages of transcripts based on hundreds of hours of interviews recorded for an autobiography that he’d abandoned. These were edited into a book Knopf will publish on October 18.
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