Academy Award-winner Paul Newman stars as the late Earl K. Long and Lolita Davidovich portrays lady-love Blaze Starr in BLAZE, an unusual love story written for the screen and directed by Ron Shelton ("BULL DURHAM") and based on the autobiography "Blaze Starr: My Life As Told To Huey Perry." Set against the colorful backdrop of 1959-60 Louisiana, the scandal that erupted over Governor Earl Long's liaison with "Miss Blaze" raised more than just a few eyebrows at the time. An unlikely combination of beauty and bluster, their scandalous romance and Earl's progressive political ideas put the great State of Louisiana in a state of shock and rocked the very foundation of the Southern political machine. Paul Newman gives a bravura performance as the gravelly-voiced, controversial and eccentric Long, a man whose personal and political crises overcame his judgement and eventually defeated him.

Paul Newman gives a bravura performance as the gravelly-voiced, controversial and eccentric Earl Long, a man whose personal and political crises overcame his judgement and eventually defeated him. Set against the colorful backdrop of 1959-60 Louisiana, BLAZE tells of Governor Long's liaison with "Miss Blaze", a scandal that raised more than just a few eyebrows at the time. An unlikely combination of beauty and bluster, their romance and Earl's progressive political ideas put the great State of Louisiana in a state of shock and rocked the very foundation of the Southern political machine.