Paul Newman’s Friend, A Cop Named Joe
By C. MacDonald
I once knew a guy who had been a New York cop. He looked exactly, and I mean exactly, like Paul Newman. You couldn’t tell them apart. The thespian and the cop both ended up in California—Newman once lived in Hollywood and the police officer moved to Orange County. At one time, I actually had a photo of the two. Newman had his elbow resting on his friend’s shoulder. The only difference between them was the huge smile on Joe’s face—did he ever have a reason to smile!
Joe had been in danger all his life—and survived. He spent three decades working as a cop in the worst part of New York’s Bronx. His 41st precinct was nicknamed, “Ft. Apache,” and Paul Newman starred in a movie about the horrors that occurred in the South Bronx regularly. Joe protected Paul while the film was being shot…Read more>
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