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Excellent "Battler" with Almost Unrecognizable Paul Newman, 6 January 2006
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richlandwoman from Los Angeles
A lot of the so-called Golden Age of Television really isn't any good,
but this episode of "Playwrights 56" is.
Dewey Martin plays Hemingway's Nick Adams, who sets out on the road and
is victimized twice in quick succession, in well-paced, well-directed
vignettes.
He then meets up with Paul Newman's Battler, so disfigured that a
viewer might not immediately recognize him. The Battler is a
brain-damaged ex-fighter, and is a role like nothing else I've seen
from Newman, who is very good.
Interestingly enough, the TV adapter of this short story is A E
Hotchner, who was friends with Hemingway and also the cofounder of the
"Newman's Own" lines of salad dressing, etc.
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