On the New Orleans set of Blaze, 1974:

Perhaps it was the food or the Cajun accents, but Newman found himself, once again, pining for Joanne, whom he had openly courted on a Bayou State film set three decades prior. Joanne was, in fact, enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College during that spring term - she'd been attending on and off for more than a decade, hoping to finish the college degree she'd abandoned in Louisiana in the early 1950s. And then she got a pleading phone call from her husband. "He asked me to join him because he missed me," she remembered. "There's no academic degree in the world that can compare in importance to the fact that the person you've loved for thirty-one years is missing you." She put her educational plans on hold and went to join him on the film set.

- Shawn Levy, "Paul Newman: A Life"