Paul Newman, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Paul Newman comes up
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:32:24 David Rosenthal And then, a couple years later, one of the true leading men actors of the day, Paul Newman, stars in a 1969 film called Winning, about being a race car driver, and
- ▶ 2:33:41 David Rosenthal So, 1969 is when Paul Newman stars in this movie.
- ▶ 2:33:53 David Rosenthal Paul Newman absolutely is iconic at this point in time.
- ▶ 2:34:02 David Rosenthal He's wearing this watch, and he wears it for about 10, 15 years or so, and then one day in 1984, so long, long, long time later, lots of history passes, which we will come back to, and one day in 1984, his daughter Nell has her boyfriend…
- ▶ 2:34:30 David Rosenthal And Paul, on a whim,
- ▶ 2:35:18 David Rosenthal For whatever reason, it is unknown, a bunch of dealers in Italy start snatching up versions of the Daytona from the era when Paul Newman's Daytona was made.
- ▶ 2:36:01 David Rosenthal So, one rumor is that around this time in the early eighties, Paul Newman had been on the cover of an Italian style magazine wearing the watch, obviously taken before he gave it to the boyfriend, and maybe that was the reason that people…
- ▶ 2:36:33 David Rosenthal So, the dealers start buying up the quote-unquote Paul Newman style Daytonas, which is a specific style, was made for a couple years by Rolex in the late sixties, early seventies, and it had like an art deco style face to it.
- ▶ 2:40:09 Ben Gilbert Paul Newman dial.
- ▶ 2:40:11 David Rosenthal Which, to be clear, I am not wearing a Paul Newman dial.
- ▶ 2:40:19 David Rosenthal Just sticking with the Paul Newman models here in 1986,
- ▶ 2:40:31 David Rosenthal For a watch that Paul Newman gave away to his daughter's boyfriend two years before and was worth 200 dollars.
- ▶ 2:43:47 David Rosenthal And then in the eighties, when the Italian thing happens and the Paul Newman thing happens and the collector's market gets built,
- ▶ 2:59:55 David Rosenthal That the Paul Newman craze happens.
- ▶ 3:02:12 David Rosenthal The Italian affair, the Paul Newman affair, is the luckiest thing that ever happened to Rolex, because this gave them the golden opportunity to do that.
- ▶ 3:03:28 David Rosenthal It's doing things like, oh, the Paul Newman craze is happening.
- ▶ 3:29:23 David Rosenthal So, everything we've been talking about managing through the quartz crisis and this transition to luxury, the auction houses, the Paul Newman craziness,
- ▶ 3:29:39 David Rosenthal He had joined in 1986 as commercial director right at the height of the Paul Newman craze and all of this that we've been talking about.
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:02 Michael Ovitz When I met Paul Newman,
- ▶ 36:06 Michael Ovitz I actually had something to talk to him about, because Paul Newman loved cars.
- ▶ 55:44 Michael Ovitz And one of us got up and said, look, Ann Miller is a talented lady, but we should be signing Bob Redford and Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman and Sean Connery and Sidney Poitier, and we should be signing those people, not Ann Miller.