American screen stars Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood meet by chance outside a motel in Tucson, Arizona, 1972. Both were making movies for different studios.
Photographer Terry O’Neil captured this picture of two Hollywood tough-guys, Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood in Tucson, Arizona in 1972, after meeting by chance outside a motel.
Award-winning actor Paul Newman was quite the badass. He directed, produced, and was a race car driver! As old ‘cool hand’ once explained, auto racing was “the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in”. His impressive film credits include title characters in The Hustler (1961), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and Butch Cassidy, The Sting (1973), and The Verdict (1982).
The Unforgiven, Gran Torino, True Crime, Joe Kidd, Dirty Harry, Million Dollar Baby… Eastwood and his standard “tough guy roles” have pretty much sealed his fate as the official cultural icon of masculinity.
