How Paul had the last laugh
ROBERT Redford has told of the time he thought he’d found the perfect solution to stop his friend Paul Newman’s constant nattering about motor racing – until the joke backfired on him.
The 72-year-old ordered an old banger to be delivered to his Butch Cassidy co-star’s house.
But it was Paul, who died from cancer last year, who had the last laugh.
“Paul drove me crazy talking about racing all the time,” explains Robert. “So I went to a junkyard and said, ‘Do you have a destroyed sports car and can you wrap it up and leave it at Paul Newman’s house?’ ”
However Paul had it crushed and returned to sender. It remained in Robert’s garden as a sculpture. “It was awful,” he recalls.
