conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Paul Newman about Daniel, Clint, Eastwood with the genre: Arts & Photography, Performing Arts.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Daniel the author is a journalist and film critic whose work has been published in many leading UK film and general interest magazines. He is the author of several previous books including Clint Eastwood: Filmmaker, and Robert Altman: Hollywood Survivor, published by Batsford Press.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Newman, Paul, Newman's with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Paul Newman'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Paul Newman
  By that time I had done a lot of research: talking to colleagues, acquaintances, collaborators; sorting through previously published biographies of Newman and people he had known or worked with; reading histories of his hometown, his colleges, the Actors Studio, the Hollywood system; gathering and absorbing literally thousands of articles, interviews, archived papers, transcripts, letters, memos, and legal documents; watching films and TV shows and listening to audio recordings. I traveled to New York and Los Angeles and Cleveland and Gambier, Ohio, and added even more material about his days and deeds to my file cabinets, of which three full drawers were eventually filled with Newmaniana.
  Two folks I spoke with were especially helpful in supplying me with information and images: Sue Bronson and Kurt Wanieck. I was given valuable materials (or told how to get them) by Rosemary Acena, Roger Friedman, and Jon Ward. And I was led to specific interview sources by Laura Bobovski, Charlie Haddad, Gabriel Mendoza, Marc Mohan, Russ Smith, Janet Wainwright, and Mark Wigginton.
  In Portland I was able to use three resources of the sort that make it the best city I can imagine in which to be a working writer: Powell's Books, which is bigger than a lot of libraries—and has better hours; Movie Madness, which had virtually every film Newman made on its shelves, along with some real rarities; and ActivSpace, where I was able to work cozily away in just about the perfect writer's garret.
  As good a friend is Richard Pine, an exemplary sounding board, head shrinker, and businessman—just the qualities you want in an agent; thanks, too, to his colleagues at Inkwell Management.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: As good a friend is Richard Pine, an exemplary sounding board, head shrinker, and businessman—just the qualities you want in an agent; thanks, too, to his colleagues at Inkwell Management.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Two folks I spoke with were especially helpful in supplying me with information and images: Sue Bronson and Kurt Wanieck. I was given valuable materials (or told how to get them) by Rosemary Acena, Roger Friedman, and Jon Ward. And I was led to specific interview sources by Laura Bobovski, Charlie Haddad, Gabriel Mendoza, Marc Mohan, Russ Smith, Janet Wainwright, and Mark Wigginton.
  In Portland I was able to use three resources of the sort that make it the best city I can imagine in which to be a working writer: Powell's Books, which is bigger than a lot of libraries—and has better hours; Movie Madness, which had virtually every film Newman made on its shelves, along with some real rarities; and ActivSpace, where I was able to work cozily away in just about the perfect writer's garret.
  As good a friend is Richard Pine, an exemplary sounding board, head shrinker, and businessman—just the qualities you want in an agent; thanks, too, to his colleagues at Inkwell Management.
  My chief thanks go to my family. The kids—Vince, Anthony, and Paula—have always been cheerful and inspiring despite the mania that settles on their dad when he gets to work. And their mother, Mary Bartholemy, has demonstrated the most remarkable strength, loyalty, insight, patience, and care. I can't begin to compensate her for all she's done for me, taught me, and shared with me. All I can say is that without her I couldn't have created a page of this.
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com