Paul Newman and Robert Redford only made two movies together, but the former had an unusual idea for how they could reunite for a third film.

Seinfeld co-star Wayne Knight, who played Newman, got to parody two of his most memorable '90s movie roles on the hit sitcom.

For example, if the Coen brothers chose their movies for purely commercial reasons, they’d have never made one of their undisputed classics. In 1994, the Coens released The Hudsucker Proxy, a passion ...