One time, always a little squirmy when it came to giving interviews, Paul Newman sat in the dining room of his Manhattan apartment and explained his press-shyness. “After you’ve answered the same questions 134 times, it’s hard to come up with new answers,” he said. “And that makes me feel dull.” Just then his wife — who sometimes called him Sam Superstar — swept in and sensed a cue. Said Joanne Woodward to her dazzling husband: “But you are dull.”