European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Crude rude and lewd Paul Newman by Frank Rizzo the Hartford Courante Arl k. Long was  Paul Newman but Paul Newman is one great Earl k Long casting the classically Cool actor As the eccentric governor who ruled he great state of Louisiana in the sos was a stretch of imagination As Well As Talent. Long was crude rude and lewd and an amazingly popular populist. The three Best friends the poor people have Ever had said the flamboyant politician Are Jesus Christ. Sears & Roebuck and Earl k Long " but while governor he was committed As a patient to mental institutions he also tried unsuccessfully to please both Black and White constituents and Tell in love with stripper Blaze Starr. In a recent interview in new York to promote the film Blaze the soft spoken reserved Newman said that the Long role was of a scale that i was not accustomed to playing " looking tit and conservatively stylish in a two piece Gray suit club tie and Black boots the 63-year-old Newman said the two week rehearsal prior to the filming in Louisiana was essential to reach a Point where he could let out All the acting stops it was a wonderful Lime because you could really  Newman said. It s great to be Able to take risks and make terrible mistakes so you can discard them when it comes time to film we used that Lime very Well i practice by eating most of the scenery i ate windowsills and door jambs. I had a Good  director writer Ron Shelton who also performed double duty on the hit movie Bull Durham agreed All our head butting was Normal and constructive he said of working with actor director Newman. I did t Leel there was Ever a Battle of egos you always Wrangle with actors about How a scene is going to be played but that s part of the  the Mam difficulty said Shelton. Was trying to Scruff up Newman for the role of the 65 year old Long a Toad of a Man whose fashion sense made him look like an unmade bed but you can  he said with a laugh on anyone else those Box shaped poplin suits look like crap you put them on Newman and they look like Armani " Shelton said that the movie which is based on the 1974 Book Blazo Starr my life As told to Huey Perry is a kind of a Louisiana  Starr. 57. Who now designs and Sells jewelry at a mall outside Baltimore was a technical adviser for the film the movie s focus is on Long s love affair with Starr played by newcomer Lolita Davidovich and How the scandal affected his run Lor another term As governor. Long was elected to the us House of representatives in 1960 but died before taking office Newman sees a connection Between sex and politics then and now. Long s fall at the hands of a hungry press not the least of which was the then new medium of television is not so different from the political All of Gary Hart be said. What s disturbing about both is that the exposures Are supposedly done for the Public Good Newman said. But what i have discovered is that they Are usually done for the Buck or for Good career moves for journalists. There s something very personal in All of this. Ii Paul Newman stars As eccentric Louisiana gov. Earl k. Long in  has nothing to do with the sense that this is done As a Community service there s something much More conspiratorial and personal about it which i Don t like very much the press has assumed the privilege of examining people s private lives said Newman who has suffered through a few Public tribulations of his own. Cases in Law today Are tried in two places they re tried in the courts where they ought to be tried and they re tried in the press he said citing Leona Helrn Sley s trial for tax fraud As an example. They re not just subject to judicial review but journalistic review. I Don t think whether Earl was having an affair made him a better or worse Public servant and i Don t think whether Gary Hart was Messing around was anybody s business " Shelton and Newman said Louisiana welcomed the filming of Blaze despite Long s Check ered career. But did the Long family feel its privacy was being invaded by the film Earl Long was a Public figure and subject to the worse kind of scrutiny Newman said. His thing with Blaze Starr was a matter of Public record. Movie makers should be subject to the same rules and regulations and sense of ethics and decency As the people in the newspapers should  Newman also addressed the Issue of dramatizing recent history whether in Blaze in his recent film about the creation of the atomic bomb fal Man and Little boy or in Mississippi burning a movie about the Early civil rights movement told through the eyes of two White  agents. I suppose the question is. What s the harm he said and i think if the harm is a revisionist idea of history then i think it should be roundly condemned. I Don t know what the few violations of the historical facts were in terms of Earl Long. He was a wonderfully eccentric kind of person. If you get most of the stuff right then it s of. Maybe Earl was t a great Lover. Maybe he did t Wear his boots to bed. 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