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In 1986, Paul Newman and his friend, the screenwriter Stewart Stern, embarked on an ambitious project.

Newman would be interviewed by Stern, with the talks recorded for an eventual memoir so that Newman could set the record straight about his life. The actor wouldn't do all the talking, though. A slew of Newman's friends, relatives, and colleagues would also be interviewed, as well as — at Newman's insistence — his first wife Jackie.

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According to The New Yorker, Stern had amassed an enormous wealth of information with over 100 interviews by 1991, but Newman reportedly destroyed the tapes in 1998. It was thought that the project would never see the light of day until pages upon pages of transcripts were discovered, per The New York Times.

The result is a posthumous autobiography entitled "The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir," published in October 2022.

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