It’s called “The Last Movie Stars,” and it aired this summer on HBO Max. Hawke learned that Stern (who died in 2015) had had transcripts of the tapes made-maybe Stern had worried that Newman might destroy them-and he used the transcripts to put together a six-part series on the lives and careers of Newman and his second wife, the actress Joanne Woodward. About ten years later, some of his children (he had six altogether his only son died in 1978) approached Ethan Hawke to discuss making a documentary. In 1998, Newman took the cassettes to the dump and burned them all. By 1991, Stern had recorded more than a hundred interviews. This continued for several years, during which Stern also interviewed some of Newman’s buddies from college and the Navy, his two wives, his brother and other members of his family, friends and show-business colleagues, including screenwriters, directors, producers, agents, and actors-pretty much everyone he could find who’d had some relationship to Newman. Is Paul Newman’s memoir, “ The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” (Knopf), really Paul Newman’s memoir? As best I can piece together the story, in 1986, the year he turned sixty-one, Newman sat down with an old friend, the screenwriter Stewart Stern, and began recording on a cassette player material for an autobiography.

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