Ethan Hawke-Directed Doc ‘The Last Movie Stars’ Lets Us Bask in Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s Glow: TV Review

variety.com:

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticDeep into “The Last Movie Stars” — a six-episode HBO Max documentary series directed by Ethan Hawke — Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward appear on the cover of a 1980 issue of McCall’s magazine.

In the headline, his name comes first, then hers, then a reference to “their very private marriage.”This may come as a surprise, even as the order of names, and Newman’s face forcing Woodward’s to the cover’s bottom half, make perfect sense.

With movies like “Cool Hand Luke” and “The Hustler” in the canon, and Newman’s face smiling benevolently across every American salad-dressing aisle, the scope of his fame made the world see the accomplished Woodward as his wife before she was an artist.

But “private”? Really? The pair’s marriage was widely discussed and covered by the press; they worked together frequently and appeared as a proto-Tom and Rita, the vision of successful marriage, Hollywood style.