Paul Newman had the most famous blue eyes in cinema and felt like a fraud every time he put on a tuxedo. This episode strips away the Hollywood mythology to follow a man who felt most alive covered in engine grease or strapped into a race car, and whose most lasting legacy may be the philanthropic empire hidden inside a bottle of salad dressing.

The conversation begins with his outsider childhood in Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, then moves to the World War II earache that kept him off a flight to the USS Bunker Hill days before a kamikaze attack killed his squadron mates. It traces his path through summer stock, the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg, the roles he inherited after James Dean's death, his fifty-year marriage to Joanne Woodward in Westport, Connecticut, four national sports car champ ...