Detective writer Ross Macdonald once said that his novel "The Moving Target" "is a story clearly aspiring to be a movie." And it did lead to a movie, "Harper," which is significant in the Newman catalog — but not, to modern eyes, a very good one. …

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Since the talk that Paul Newman is very ill, I've been planning to look back at some of the pivotal movies in his career. "Nobody's Fool" may seem like an odd place to start …

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