The movie with Paul Newman did little to enhance “Uncle Earl’s” reputation and diminished a surprising record of achievement. While not as mesmerizing a speaker as Huey, Earl Long was masterful in his ...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit' director Robert Zemeckis explained why late actor Paul Newman was 'insulted' by the offer to lead ...

Tom Hanks made his big-screen debut in an unremarkable 1980 slasher cheapie called He Knows You’re Alone. And based on that ...

His movie songs are ... Hall of Fame — Newman, now 80, admitted, “what I really wanted was to have the respect from fellow workers in the field. That Bob or Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Don ...

This means his list of rejected roles is not only long but considerably varied ... 1977’s Slap Shot isn’t the first movie one thinks of when picking out defining films of the 1970s, but the role ...

Huey Long became a major champion of the university. But his overinvolvement came with a price, and almost cost the school its accreditation. For more on Long’s relationship with LSU and the ...

As for American populists, I’d say Huey Long was the foremost. That Long’s influence did not survive him outside Louisiana can be explained by two things: World War II changed the discussion ...