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| Clint Eastwood |
Eastwood in May 2008 |
| Born |
Clinton Eastwood, Jr.
May 31, 1930 (1930-05-31) (age 79)
San Francisco, California, United States |
| Occupation |
Actor, film director, film producer, composer |
| Years active |
1954–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Maggie Johnson (1953–1978)
Dina Ruiz (1996–present) |
| Domestic partner(s) |
Sondra Locke (1975–1989)
Frances Fisher (1990–1995) |
.^ Clint Eastwood was 75 on May 31,2005.
^ Clint Eastwood is an amazing Actor...- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Clint will produce and direct the film.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Letters from Iwo Jima” received Golden Globe Award nominations in 2006, including one for Best Director – Motion Picture for Eastwood.- Clint Eastwood Biography - Yahoo! Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movies.yahoo.com [Source type: General]
^ "Letters from Iwo Jima" received Golden Globe Award nominations in 2006, including one for Best Director - Motion Picture for Eastwood.
^ Bird is one of my all-time favorite movies ever.- Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Your Face - In the News -Truthdig 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood is primarily known for his alienated, morally ambiguous, anti-hero acting roles in violent action and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Like Siegel, Eastwood has always been effective in his filming of violent action scenes, preferring to move the camera into the heart of the skirmish, capturing its intensity with a furious montage of fragmented bodies and barely-glimpsed weaponry.
^ Eastwood gained fame for his acting in the spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s, but won his first Oscar (for directing) for “Unforgiven” at age 62.- Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Clint Eastwood is GQ’s Man of the Year, blasts “teenage twits” 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebitchy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Eastwood's Man With No Name in the Leone films had no such scruples.
^ In 1959, he got his first break with the long-running television series, Rawhide.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ The film was called Dirty Harry .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He oozes masculinity in his many screen appearances, particularly in his roles as the brooding, squinty-eyed, unshaven stranger in town in the westerns that made him famous.- Clint Eastwood Celebrity Profile, News, Gossip & Photos - AskMen.com UK 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC uk.askmen.com [Source type: General]
[1] .^ Eastwood is also known for his comedic efforts in Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980), his two highest-grossing films after adjustment for inflation.http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0647319/ .- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1978 He was paid $12,000,000 (15% of gross) for Every Which Way But Loose.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ In "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978), he played a bare-knuckle boxer who pals around with his orangutan, Clyde, while falling for a country-and-western singer (Eastwood's off-screen girlfriend, Locke, again).
.^ Clint was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at Academy Awards for Unforgiven, (1993).- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ On Million Dollar Baby and a million-dollar career .- Bright Lights Film Journal | Interview with Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.brightlightsfilm.com [Source type: General]
^ He worked as a producer, director, and as an actor in many successful movies .- Clint Eastwood - A Great Moviestar Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar Copyright 1996 Antti Ivanoff 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.sci.fi [Source type: General]
.^ More than Outlaw Josey Wales .- Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist: Movies: UGO 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 PG , 135 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 47.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 R , 140 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Mystic River (2003) 45.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 41.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood served as the mayor of Carmel, California from 1986 until 1988.
^ He also served as the non-partisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California from 1986?1988, tending to support small business interests on the one hand and environmental protection on the other.- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood also served as the mayor of Carmel, CA, from 1986 until 1988.
Early life
.^ SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle 3 weeks ago They are all supremely qualified to interview, say, Hillary Clinton one minute and Clint Eastwood the next.- Clint Eastwood - News, photos, topics, and quotes 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.daylife.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Born at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, California to Clinton Eastwood Sr.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood Movie Posters 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movie-poster.ws [Source type: General]
^ Clint Sr., a sometime steel worker in the San Francisco Bay Area, was forced in the 1930s to seek work over a wide area of coastal and inland California.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood Movie Posters 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movie-poster.ws [Source type: General]
.^ His father was a steelworker and his mother was a factory worker.- Nick Tosches on Clint Eastwood | vanityfair.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.vanityfair.com [Source type: General]
^ Margaret Ruth Runner near the beginning of the Great Depression, which in turn left its mark on his later films.- Clint Eastwood Movie Posters 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movie-poster.ws [Source type: General]
^ Margaret Ruth Runner; the family is of Scottish, Irish, Dutch, and English descent.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
.^ Clinton Eastwood Jr. May 31, 1930, in San Francisco — and, at 11 pounds,6 ounces, quickly nicknamed "Samson" by the nurses.- Clint Eastwood reconsidered in a new bio and DVD collection | New Jersey Entertainment - TV & Film - - NJ.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.nj.com [Source type: General]
[2][3] .^ His father, Clinton Eastwood Sr., moved his family from town to town to get work.- Two Sides Of Clint Eastwood - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC www.cbsnews.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Margaret Ruth Runner; the family is of Scottish, Irish, Dutch, and English descent.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Is of a mixed heritage that includes Dutch, Scottish, Irish and English blood.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood Biography and Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.actorsofhollywood.com [Source type: General]
[6] .^ Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California .- Clint Eastwood Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In Oakland, California Eastwood attended Oakland Technical High School, where, aside from swimming and basketball, his major interest was jazz.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ High School Musical 3: Senior Year stays at the top .
.^ While attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, CA , one of his teachers assigned him a part in a play to try to get him to be less introverted.- Clint Eastwood Movie Posters 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movie-poster.ws [Source type: General]
^ Later Clint studied at the Oakland Technical High School and graduated 1948.- Clint Eastwood - A Great Moviestar Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar Copyright 1996 Antti Ivanoff 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.sci.fi [Source type: General]
^ While attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, CA, one of his teachers assigned him a part in a play to try to get him to be less introverted.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood was drafted into the Army, apparently in 1951, during the Korean War.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood Movie Posters 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movie-poster.ws [Source type: General]
^ After graduating from high school in 1949, Eastwood worked variously as a gas station attendant, a bar-room piano player and a firefighter before being drafted for a short time during the Korean War (he never saw action).- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Born in Denver, Colorado, he served in the navy during World War II and studied acting at the University of Texas.- clint eastwood - The Screengrab 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC nerve.com [Source type: General]
.^ He was drafted into the Army in 1951 and was made a swimming instructor at Fort Ord, California.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Ord across from Monterey, California (over the hill from where he lives and served as mayor, Carmel-by-the-Sea) as a swimming instructor.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ In today's Politically Correct world, the medics saved his life by putting an IV into him and transporting him in the same ambulance that the cop who shot him was in!!!- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ After his discharge in 1953, Eastwood moved to Southern California and attended Los Angeles City College, studying drama and business administration under the G.I. Bill.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood Movie Posters 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movie-poster.ws [Source type: General]
^ He was discharged in 1953 and moved to Southern California where attended Los Angeles City College where he studied drama and business administration.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After the army time Eastwood decided to continue educating himself; he enrolled in Los Angeles City College to major in business administration.- Clint Eastwood - A Great Moviestar Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar by Antti Ivanoff Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood actor director producer moviestar Copyright 1996 Antti Ivanoff 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.sci.fi [Source type: General]
[7] .^ After graduating from high school in 1949, Eastwood worked variously as a gas station attendant, a bar-room piano player and a firefighter before being drafted for a short time during the Korean War (he never saw action).- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Clint Eastwood The son of a steelworker, Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco and toiled as a logger and a gas station attendant before moving to Hollywood.- Clint Eastwood DVDs, Clint Eastwood DVD Rentals, Rent Clint Eastwood Movies at Netflix Today 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
^ Even after breaking into the movies, he dug swimming pools in Beverly Hills to pay the bills.
[8] .^ As a teenager he studied at Los Angeles City College.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ He married model Maggie Johnson in 1953, with whom he had two children, Kyle and Alison.- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Born in San Francisco and raised throughout northern California, Eastwood attended Los Angeles City College under the G. I. Bill and served as mayor of Carmel, California from 1986 to 1988.- Clint Eastwood Biography - Clint Eastwood Quotes - Esquire 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.esquire.com [Source type: Original source]
[8][9]
Film career
Early work:1950s
Becoming an actor
.^ Actor, director and producer Clint Eastwood will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festivals highest honor, The Modern Master Award, it was announced by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling.
^ While at the Cannes film festival that year, Spielberg gave him the script to a supernatural thriller called Hereafter , which Eastwood is currently working on.- Why Clint Eastwood Hates Thinking - The Daily Beast 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Born the son of a steel worker in 1930, Clint Eastwood's drive for success led him to his first break on the TV series Rawhide in 1959.
[10] .^ It was at Fort Ord near Carmel, CA that Eastwood first became interested in acting, thanks to his friendship with actors David Janssen and Martin Milner, who encouraged him to pursue a career in Hollywood after serving in the military.
^ Eastwood played the laconic and lethal Man With No Name, who finds himself in a nameless town torn apart by two feuding families.
^ However, the emphasis on friends and family served notice that, in the words of one critic, "the Man With No Name doesn't live here anymore."- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
[10] .^ After his discharge in 1953, Eastwood moved to Southern California and attended Los Angeles City College, studying drama and business administration under the G.I. Bill.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high and dry.- Clint Eastwood Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At the studios, everybody's into sequels or remakes or adaptations of old TV shows.
[10] Glassberg was impressed with Eastwood's appearance and stature and believed him to be "the sort of good looking young man that has traditionally done well in the movies".
[10]
.^ Clint Eastwood The son of a steelworker, Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco and toiled as a logger and a gas station attendant before moving to Hollywood.- Clint Eastwood DVDs, Clint Eastwood DVD Rentals, Rent Clint Eastwood Movies at Netflix Today 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
^ After his discharge in 1953, Eastwood moved to Southern California and attended Los Angeles City College, studying drama and business administration under the G.I. Bill.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Born May 31, 1930, in San Francisco, Eastwood worked as a logger and gas-station attendant, among other things, before coming to Hollywood in the mid-'50s.- Clint Eastwood Biography and Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.actorsofhollywood.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
[10] .^ "I liked him as a person the first time I ever met him, because he was a fan of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales,' " Eastwood said.
.^ November 18th, 2009 1:06 pm ET I love how Brady talks about his 'quite little wedding'.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ As someone who was around and already a movie enthusiast in the 70's, I remember people being a little incredulous about the idea of Eastwood directing.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At first I kind of smiled at Clint Eastwood’s ‘shut his face’ remark, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought the remark was rude, hurtful, and inappropriate.- Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Your Face - In the News -Truthdig 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: General]
.^ Naturally, Eastwood didn't go that way at all.
^ "And he didn't seem to let anything get in his way.
^ I'm sure he didn't say to himself, "I'm in my dark period right now, so I'm going to paint this way."- Clint Eastwood Biography - Clint Eastwood Quotes - Esquire 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.esquire.com [Source type: Original source]
[11] .^ In an arrangement at which even Ken Livingstone might raise eyebrows, Eastwood has had seven children with five different women, including an 11-year-old daughter with his current wife, Dina.- Interview: Clint Eastwood | Film | The Guardian 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
^ I heard once that Eastwood and Wallace shared a single room and a single bed that they used in shifts in order to maintain their thorny attitude toward each other.- Posts tagged Clint eastwood at Cinematical 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.cinematical.com [Source type: General]
^ All he has is the Eastwood brand and a loyal following of friends in Hollywood to vote for his films.- Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Your Face - In the News -Truthdig 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: General]
[12] .^ Eastwood the director uses small gestures such as lighting a cigarette or tuning a radio to indicate the characters' initial awkwardness.- "We all have it coming, Kid": Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC archive.sensesofcinema.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Whereas Eastwood often delivers dialogue in an epigrammatic manner or as if he is giving a speech that precludes reply, in Bridges he is an enthusiastic and convincing interlocutor.- "We all have it coming, Kid": Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC archive.sensesofcinema.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[13] .^ In this case, legendary actor/director and self-described libertarian Clint Eastwood shared his thoughts on the recent vice-presidential debate .- The Superficial - Clint Eastwood hearts Sarah Palin 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC thesuperficial.com [Source type: General]
^ Play Misty For Me (1971, CLINT EASTWOOD) "At sometime in everyone's life, regardless of the situation they are in, they have had some kind of uncomfortable relationship like that.
^ After older stars like John Wayne , Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum turned the film down, Eastwood was cast.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
Thin, rural, with a prominent
Adam's Apple, very laconic and slow speechwise."
[14]
Universal Studios: Training and development
Eastwood at the Universal talent school in 1954
.^ Eastwood made the film that did get made.
^ Chris Pine stars in this thriller about a group of friends trying to out run a viral pandemic threatening to wipe out the human race.- Clint Eastwood, Chris Pine Among GQ’s Men Of The Year | Access Hollywood - Celebrity News, Photos & Videos 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.accesshollywood.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Just back from Afghanistan, actress Angelina Jolie made a surprise appearance at Monday night's Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala, where she honored director Clint Eastwood, who worked with the mother of six on 'The Changeling.'
.^ Got his first acting role in “Rawhide” (1959) while visiting a friend at the CBS, when a studio exec spotted him because he “looked like a cowboy.” .- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ His debut as a director came with Play Misty for Me (1971), in which he gave Siegel his first acting role, as a way of thanking the director for sponsoring his application for membership of the Directors Guild.- MySpace - Clint Eastwood - 79 - Male - - myspace.com/clinteastwoodjr 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: General]
^ Has retired from acting, according to director Paul Haggis, who offered him the role in In the Valley of Elah (2007) played by Tommy Lee Jones.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
[14] .^ Of course, I was twelve when it came out and it’s entirely possible I saw it in later years on TV but, if so, I don’t recall it.- Clint Eastwood — Piddleville 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC piddleville.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After all, they have voted nearly in lockstep for the past seven years.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Remember, now, that’s means Congress has spent all tax revenues and then spent 3 trillion above that over the last seven years; and George W. Bush approved it.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[14] .^ Just back from Afghanistan, actress Angelina Jolie made a surprise appearance at Monday night's Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala, where she honored director Clint Eastwood, who worked with the mother of six on 'The Changeling.'
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood blasted the comments made by director Spike Lee that his films 'Flags of Our Fathers' and 'Letters from Iwo Jima' failed to recognize the role of African-American soldiers.
[15]
.^ He was paid $100 a week for Francis In The Navy 1955.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ Signed by Universal, he had his first experience with the indignities suffered by actors in a "Francis the Talking Mule" movie, FRANCIS IN THE NAVY (1955).
^ Son of Clinton Eastwood (11 June 1906 - 22 July 1970) and wife Margaret Ruth Runner (1 September 1909 - 7 February 2006).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[16] .^ After his arrival, he played small roles in several Universal features (he's the pilot of the plane that napalms the giant spider at the end of Tarantula [1955]) before achieving some limited star status on the television series Rawhide .- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood began work as an actor, appearing in B-films such as Revenge of the Creature, Tarantula and Francis in the Navy.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Tarantula (1955) is Eastwood’s movie debut as the (unaccredited) leader of the jet squadron that attacks the tarantula in the film’s climax.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
[17] .^ Eastwood's films have never been more interesting.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood starred in many of these films, including The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), plus Bronco Billy (1980) and Honkytonk Man (1982)—which spoofed Eastwood's tough-guy persona—and the mystical Western Pale Rider (1985).- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[18] .^ It’s also fun to watch my son and daughter and other younger people watching the documentary and getting a history lesson because they haven’t seen these films.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Editor's Voice - Video - www.real.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC eu.real.com [Source type: General]
[18] .^ His big break as an actor came in 1957 when he took on the role of Rowdy Yates in the TV series Rawhide, in which he appeared throughout its seven year run that commenced with the first broadcast in January 1958.- MySpace - Clint Eastwood - 79 - Male - - myspace.com/clinteastwoodjr 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: General]
^ Signed by Universal, he had his first experience with the indignities suffered by actors in a "Francis the Talking Mule" movie, FRANCIS IN THE NAVY (1955).
^ Tight TV schedules and good training helped him develop the minimalist acting style for which he is famous; it was first appreciated in Europe, where he starred in a trilogy of spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone in Spain.
[19] .^ I got a contract at Universal and was a contract player for 1-1/2 years.- Bright Lights Film Journal | Interview with Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.brightlightsfilm.com [Source type: General]
^ Upon his return to the U.S., Eastwood set up his own production company, Malpaso, which had a hit right out of the box with the revenge Western Hang 'Em High (1968).- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ Returning to Hollywood, Eastwood formed his own production company, Malpaso, and signed on to make Hang 'Em High (1968), as a man who survives his own hanging and wreaks revenge on the nine men responsible.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
Eastwood rejected him.
[20]
No Man's Land: 1956–1958
.^ She'll perform, and she'll also join panel discussions with musicians such as Clark Terry and Bill Charlap and jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood.- Clint Eastwood: News & Videos about Clint Eastwood - CNN.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC topics.cnn.com [Source type: General]
^ As such, Leary, and especially Malkovich's performance, represent the displacement of the fear of emasculation or feminisation of the masculine figure Eastwood embodies .- "We all have it coming, Kid": Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC archive.sensesofcinema.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Once again in his extraordinary late-career run, Eastwood surprises with his choice of subject matter, here joining a project Freeman had long hoped to realize.
[12] .^ The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) 23.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ At the end of the day, Eastwood chose to continue shooting film as he always has for the project, although he did bring both movies to Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI) for the first digital intermediates of his storied career.
^ Eastwood is primarily known for his alienated, morally ambiguous, anti-hero acting roles in violent action and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[21] Eastwood played a recruitment officer for
Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
.^ Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a past-his-prime U.S. pilot, smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian supersonic fighting plane.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ Shortly into 2006 it was announced that Eastwood would also make a film to coincide with Flags of our Fathers .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint Eastwood would make him, even beyond his equally iconic Man With No Name in Sergio Leones Spaghetti Westerns, his signature role.
[21] .^ Clint Eastwood set for Oscar success?
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ He managed one pretty-good film with “Unforgiven, whichas it happensfeatures a black actor: Morgan Freeman, whose performance exceeds that of Eastwood in the same film.- Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Your Face - In the News -Truthdig 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: General]
[21]
Without the Lubin contract in the meantime, however, Eastwood was struggling.
[21] .^ His big break as an actor came in 1957 when he took on the role of Rowdy Yates in the TV series Rawhide, in which he appeared throughout its seven year run that commenced with the first broadcast in January 1958.- MySpace - Clint Eastwood - 79 - Male - - myspace.com/clinteastwoodjr 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: General]
^ In later years he was to direct other leading actors, as well as himself, in complex and challenging roles that are haunted by the ghost of Red Stovall.- MySpace - Clint Eastwood - 79 - Male - - myspace.com/clinteastwoodjr 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: General]
^ He also made his movie debut (not counting an uncredited small role in On the Waterfront ) in the 1957 Method melodrama End as a Man (A.K.A. The Strange One , based on a play that he had also appeared in.- clint eastwood - The Screengrab 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC nerve.com [Source type: General]
[21] .^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ A better approach would have been to acknowledge how the film actually plays – that we know who the killer is and the film’s hook is seeing how Eastwood handles the mystery.- Clint Eastwood — Piddleville 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC piddleville.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood plays an innocent man, who barely survives a lynching.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The result, eventually, was his first film as director and star, Play Misty for Me, and a series of his own westerns, which were among the best of the genre since the great days of Hawks and Ford.
^ The West Point Story - White Fury (1957) TV episode "Death Valley Days" ....- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Death Valley Days: Deadly Decision .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
[22] In 1958, he played a Navy lieutenant in a segment of
Navy Log and in early 1959 made a notable guest appearance as a cowardly villain, intent on marrying a rich girl for money, in
Maverick.
[22].^ Eastwood's films have never been more interesting.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ EASTWOOD: I've had several films that were disappointing.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
He auditioned for the film
The Spirit of St. Louis, a
Billy Wilder biopic about aviator
Charles Lindbergh.
.^ I went to medical school to make alot of money, I am only interested in the people who can pay me my money).- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Got his first acting role in “Rawhide” (1959) while visiting a friend at the CBS, when a studio exec spotted him because he “looked like a cowboy.” .- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ Clint Eastwood would make him, even beyond his equally iconic Man With No Name in Sergio Leones Spaghetti Westerns, his signature role.
.^ Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958) .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ He found work as an actor with brief appearances in such B-films as Tarantula (1955) and Revenge of the Creature (1955), which led to credited supporting roles in Francis in the Navy (1955), The First Traveling Saleslady (1956), Lafayette Escadrille (1958) and Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ I got this picture that I'd really like for you to play a part in.
His part was shot in nine days for Regal Films Inc.
.^ At the premiere, she said she "wanted to get out of my seat and scream, 'that's my son!'"- Clint Eastwood's 'Gran Torino' has some familiar Flint faces, including Antonio Mireles | Flint Entertainment - - MLive.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.mlive.com [Source type: General]
.^ I don’t want to waste my time.” .- Why Clint Eastwood Hates Thinking - The Daily Beast 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood is primarily known for his alienated, morally ambiguous, anti-hero acting roles in violent action and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[23]
Rawhide (1959–1964)
.^ He swallowed his pride and, over the next few years, he dug swimming pools between playing bit parts in movies and on TV. While visiting a friend at CBS, Eastwood was spotted by a network exec who cast him as cattle driver Rowdy Yates in the long-running western series Rawhide.
^ The determined Eastwood swallowed his pride and, over the next few years, he dug swimming pools between playing bit parts in movies and on TV. While visiting a friend at CBS, Eastwood was spotted by a network exec who cast him as cattle driver Rowdy Yates in the long-running western series "Rawhide" (1959).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ From Rawhide and spaghetti westerns to Dirty Harry and Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood has become the embodiment of American macho - and in real life was a serial womaniser.- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
.^ Some of his favorite movies are THE 39 STEPS (1935), SERGEANT YORK (1941), THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943) and CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981).- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ Using old interviews with the likes of John Wayne and Henry Fonda along with new ones with modern film giants like Steven Spielberg Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ His role in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) was first offered to Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and James Coburn.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
[24] .^ He swallowed his pride and, over the next few years, he dug swimming pools between playing bit parts in movies and on TV. While visiting a friend at CBS, Eastwood was spotted by a network exec who cast him as cattle driver Rowdy Yates in the long-running western series Rawhide.
^ Informed of the compliment Freeman had just paid him as his only choice to direct "Invictus," Eastwood shoots back: "That's very kind of him.
^ Yeah his range was limited but can you imagine him playing the part of a guy lacking in self confidence struggling with women.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
He had successfully beaten competition such as
Bing Russell and had got the break he had been looking for.
[24]
.^ At the end of the day, Eastwood chose to continue shooting film as he always has for the project, although he did bring both movies to Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI) for the first digital intermediates of his storied career.
^ Although these films place the Eastwood persona at their centre, there is a prevailing inconsistency to how this cultural icon, greying though he may be, is figured.- "We all have it coming, Kid": Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC archive.sensesofcinema.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Over the past five years, Eastwood has directed at the rate of a film a year.- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
At this time, Eastwood was 30, and Rowdy was too young and too cloddish for Clint to feel comfortable with the part, privately describing Yates as "the idiot of the plains"
[25]
.^ November 18th, 2009 3:30 pm ET Just a few things that always enter my mind when I hear such commentary: .- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ More » Record-of-the-year race a close call Reuters - Dec 30, 2005 This year s Grammy Award nominees for record of the year collectively have logged 28 weeks at No.- Clint Eastwood on Yahoo! Music 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC new.music.yahoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Posted Nov 20 2008, 05:30 PM by Andrew Osborne with .- clint eastwood - The Screengrab 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC nerve.com [Source type: General]
[26] For several years it was a major success, and reached its peak as number 6 in the ratings between October 1960 and April 1961.
[26] However, success was not without its price.
.^ Even to this day Inspector Harold Francis Dirty Harry Callahan remains films most iconic and famous police officer.
^ Eastwood has always been very fitness conscious and has worked out heavily many hours a week with weights and other training methods throughout his life.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Not until the day comes when they have turned against Obama and try to shove him out.- Clint Eastwood feels 'sorry' for Clinton - Jeffrey Ressner - POLITICO.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[26] .^ He won the best director Oscar for Unforgiven.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ And he is the best Director or our time.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After attaining minor fame in the TV series "Rawhide," Eastwood became a star in the wake of director Sergio Leone's spaghetti Western trilogy A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.- Clint Eastwood DVDs, Clint Eastwood DVD Rentals, Rent Clint Eastwood Movies at Netflix Today 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
[26] .^ Just make jokes about how awesome Clint Eastwood is (if you've been to Chuck Norris facts , then you'll know how this works).- Re:Clint Eastwood jokes - Sucker Punch 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC suckerpunch.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Re:Clint Eastwood jokes - Sucker Punch 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC suckerpunch.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Just back from Afghanistan, actress Angelina Jolie made a surprise appearance at Monday night's Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala, where she honored director Clint Eastwood, who worked with the mother of six on 'The Changeling.'
^ As a filmmaker, Eastwood learned his lessons from the best of his previous directors, Don Siegel and Sergio Leone, who knew just when to add some stylistic or visual flourish to an otherwise straightforward scene, and also understood the effect of small nuances on the big screen.
[27]
.^ He re-teamed with James Garner and Donald Sutherland ( Kellys Heroes ) and brought in Tommy Lee Jones for the old timer comedy Space Cowboys .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He would guest star on “Maverick” with James Garner, whom he would work with again some forty years later).- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Synopsis: Long before their teaming in the 1998 theatrical feature Space Cowboys, James Garner and Clint Eastwood shared screen time in this hilarious Maverick episode.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
Although
Rawhide continued to attract notable actors such as
Lon Chaney Jr,
Mary Astor ,
Ralph Bellamy,
Burgess Meredith,
Dean Martin and
Barbara Stanwyck, by late 1963
Rawhide was beginning to decline in popularity and lacked freshness in the script and would scrapped by early 1966.
[28]
1964–1969
.^ These boots are now a part of Clint Eastwoods private collection and were on loan to the 2005 Sergio Leone exhibit at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California.
^ Which is exactly why Eastwood, at the peak of his box office appeal, elected to star alongside an orang-utan named Clyde (in reality a diffident ape named Manis) in a knockabout comedy originally intended for Burt Reynolds.
^ At the same time, he fathered an illegitimate child with Roxanne Tunis, a Rawhide extra - his daughter Kimber's existence was not made public until 1989.- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
However, the money was not much, and Fleming always set his sights high on Hollywood stardom, and rejected the offer immediately.
[29] .^ His role in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) was first offered to Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and James Coburn.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ No better actors than Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance and too many others to mention.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Using old interviews with the likes of John Wayne and Henry Fonda along with new ones with modern film giants like Steven Spielberg Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
[31] .^ Clint Eastwood plays with Sand .
^ In this regard, Eastwood's character has affinities with the figures he played in Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood, 1980) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976).- "We all have it coming, Kid": Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC archive.sensesofcinema.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Play Misty For Me (1971, CLINT EASTWOOD) "At sometime in everyone's life, regardless of the situation they are in, they have had some kind of uncomfortable relationship like that.
.^ And the pictures that were turning points in my career, such as Fistful of Dollars, were against the fad.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ What can be said about Clint Eastwood is, "The greatest living flim actor on the planet."- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint's flims are part of my life from going to the Drive Inn back in the late 60's and 70's to theaters, to today's DVD's etc..- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[32]
.^ On the other hand, it was Reynolds the one who sent Clint a copy of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", made into a major motion picture by Eastwood ( The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ EASTWOOD: When I first came on, maybe 30 years ago, I was a sort of an upstart out of television who was doing these Italian-made Westerns.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ The director was selected personally by Eastwood, who had worked with Post on episodes of Rawhide.- MySpace - Clint Eastwood - 79 - Male - - myspace.com/clinteastwoodjr 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood's Man With No Name in the Leone films had no such scruples.
^ Eastwood accepted the role for $15,000.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ He's similar to the "Man with No Name" character from the Fistful of Dollars trilogy, but he's an altogether nicer cowpoke.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
.^ Though he often smokes in his movies, he is a lifelong non-smoker offscreen.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Throughout both films, Eastwood's trademark “blacks and shadows,” as editor Joel Cox describes them, are prevalent, with blood, fire, explosions, and colors in both the American and Japanese flags strategically manipulated to stand out from that darkness.- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ While I can't remember the details of all the "Rawhide" episodes, in his movies I don't remember Eastwood's character (and remember his characters are not the same as Eastwood himself) ever killing an Indian.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[36] .^ All of this is neatly elided from the film: Luther's abilities appear to be innate, like those of the Man with No Name or the Stranger.- "We all have it coming, Kid": Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC archive.sensesofcinema.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Also, however they film it and whatever way he decided to play it, Eastwood looked younger on the recent Ellen interview than he did in Grand Tarino.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Clint Eastwood is more than just an actor, is more than just a man!.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Behind the camera, Eastwood has achieved a level of artistic respect he never quite managed as an actor (Sergio Leone once remarked that he liked Eastwood because he only had two facial expressions: 'one with the hat and one without it').- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Locke and Eastwood were together for a tempestuous 14 years, during which time he had two further children, Scott and Kathryn, with air hostess Jacelyn Reeves.- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
[35][37] Eastwood said about playing the
Man With No Name character in the film,
.^ It's not only an American problem, the whole world needs to contribute in wanting to resolve the issues of the environment and the economy.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hingle maintained a good-natured attitude towards the whole thing: ""I know that if I had played Elmer Gantry, I would have been more of a movie name.- clint eastwood - The Screengrab 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC nerve.com [Source type: General]
.^ I had always resisted doing digital intermediates in the past, and had talked to a lot of people about it [for a long time].- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ At that time I was 16 years old in the Forties and it just kind of knocked me out.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ I had always resisted doing digital intermediates in the past, and had talked to a lot of people about it [for a long time].- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
I felt the less he said the stronger he became and the more he grew in the imagination of the audience.
[38]
.^ I realized I was heading to Iceland and Iwo Jima, and that I could pick up a few shots for both films, so that is how it all came about.- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ For previews, we just put the subtitles in ourselves off the script, and since it's a Cinemascope movie and we were working 4×3 [for dailies], we just put the subtitles in the black area under the film.- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ And also because in his whole career he was only nominated once before; 11 years earlier.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[39] .^ The world and its workings are more complex than that.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He has given the world more than enough.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Tight TV schedules and good training helped him develop the minimalist acting style for which he is famous; it was first appreciated in Europe, where he starred in a trilogy of spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone in Spain.
.^ John Wayne, who actually shot more native Americans (I would watch some Eastwood movies before making this statement about Eastwood whose protagonists were mostly everyone else except this indigenous group), made a similarly reflective piece called the Shootist as his last film.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ All three films were hits, particularly the third, and Eastwood became an instant international star, redefining the traditional image of the American cowboy (though his character was actually a gunslinger).- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood-directed Westerns tend to mix qualities from both traditional and modern forms of the genre: the title character in The Outlaw Josey Wales, for example, is somewhere between hero and anti-hero.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
Houses on the set, seen in
A Few Dollars More.
.^ If Eastwood only starred in the Leone trilogy he still would have been a legend.- Clint Eastwood vs. John Wayne - Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.rottentomatoes.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood's films have never been more interesting.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ For a Few Dollars More (1965) 26.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood: He came down to Cape Town for a day or two.
^ Eastwood stars as Tommy Nowak, a bounty hunter with a knack for catching bail-skippers with an array of Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer ( Lee Van Cleef ), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
[40]For a . was shot in the spring and summer of 1965 and again interiors of the film were shot at the Cinecittà studio in Rome before they moved to Spain again.
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I realized I was heading to Iceland and Iwo Jima, and that I could pick up a few shots for both films, so that is how it all came about.- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ He then went to Italy to act in a trilogy of stylish, revisionist westerns for Sergio Leone: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966).
.^ The most important thing for me, functioning on a film, is to make sure everybody is very relaxed -- and that is my responsibility, but also of the whole crew.
^ They flocked to the cinemas, Dirty Harry's dialogue passed into common parlance, and it now occupies an important if uneasy place in film history.- Interview: Clint Eastwood | Film | The Guardian 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
.^ The movie—for which Eastwood was paid $40,000 plus 25 percent of the profits—was one of his highest-grossing films for that period.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Had Eastwood made a film about how the photo was used for purposes of propaganda, Id be right with him.- Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Your Face - In the News -Truthdig 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: General]
^ They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.
[41][42]
Set of The Good, Bad and the Ugly in Almeria today
.^ Movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, the man behind hits including Death Wish and Hannibal, gave Eastwood Berlinetta Ferrari while he filmed The Witches in Rome in 1966.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ In January 2005 at National Board of Review awards dinner in New York City, Eastwood stated that he would kill the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore if ever Moore showed up at his home with a camera, probably a reference to Moore's controversial interview with Eastwood's friend, the movie star and Second Amendment advocate Charlton Heston for the movie Bowling for Columbine.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Synopsis: This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
[43] Eastwood's nineteen minute installment only took a few days to shoot and was not met well with critics, who described it as "no other performance of his is quite so 'un-Clintlike' ", with the
New York Times disparaging it as a "throwaway De Sica".
[44]
.^ Eastwood's Man With No Name in the Leone films had no such scruples.
^ Clint's the best of the good, the bad and not ugly!- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After attaining minor fame in the TV series "Rawhide," Eastwood became a star in the wake of director Sergio Leone's spaghetti Western trilogy A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.- Clint Eastwood DVDs, Clint Eastwood DVD Rentals, Rent Clint Eastwood Movies at Netflix Today 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
.^ (Clint has only ever played, besides kid in Rawhide, Dirty Harry, who is modern version of Man With No Name, aka, Blondie, in Leones GB&U;, wherein Eli Wallach easily steals that show, along with late Lee Van Cleef, who on his own steals For a Few Dollars More from Clint.- Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Your Face - In the News -Truthdig 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: General]
^ Jonathan Hemlock ( Eastwood ) is a professor of art history who formerly had a deadly secret life; he was a hired assassin working with an international intelligence organization.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ The series turned him into a household name and brought him to the attention of Sergio Leone, who cast him in the first instalment of the Dollars trilogy in 1964.- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
[45] .^ Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad ( Lee Van Cleef ), a ruthless bounty hunter, and Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ He wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his "Man with No Name" Westerns.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood's Man With No Name in the Leone films had no such scruples.
^ Eastwood’s first film under this companies name was Hang ‘Em High (1968) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
In the second, we were two. Here we are three. If it goes on this way, in the next one I will be starring with the American cavalry".
[45]
.^ Eastwood's Man With No Name in the Leone films had no such scruples.
^ Login or register to post comments The man with no name speaks .- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
^ Adapting the amorally enigmatic and violent Man With No Name Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
[46] The production then moved on to Spain's plateau region near
Burgos in the north, which would double for the extreme deep south of the United States, and again shot the western scenes in Almeria in the south.
[47] .^ When the movies came out, they were actually more revered—at least for that time—than American-made Westerns.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Both films were shot back-to-back at faraway locations under grueling conditions, both involved experimentation by Eastwood's team with digital cameras, both required far more extensive visual effects than Eastwood normally deals with, and both brought the filmmaker into the digital intermediate process for the first time.- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ However, I also believe that the solution to these bad economic times is more accountability, personal responsibility, and moral conduct with everything we do, and this requires patience and commitment.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
[47]
"Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society.
.^ He didn't take care of himself - he was a confirmed smoker, a heavy drinker - and yet he lived to be more than eighty.
Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth.
.^ What he thinks about apartheid or Mandela or anything else you never learn.
^ Does anything bother you about the state of movies today?- Bright Lights Film Journal | Interview with Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.brightlightsfilm.com [Source type: General]
In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet"
Clint Eastwood on his philosophical allurance to portraying western loners
[48]
.^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ JM: All that changed after the three Sergio Leone films [Fistful of Dollars, 1964; For a Few Dollars More, 1965; and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 1966].
^ Two other successful spaghetti Westerns by Leone followed: For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[49] .^ Thoughts on the few films I have seen?- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Then in 2008, Eastwood was publicly criticized by director Spike Lee for not presenting a single black character in either Iwo Jima film, despite their active participation in the battle.
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[50] .^ "Eastwood doesn't act in motion pictures, he is framed in them," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times in 1968.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood: Most of the time.
^ Eastwood: A few times.
[50]
.^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ He has spent long hours studying the psyche of Frank Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan (feeling that there is a bond between them), telling him of his plans to kill the president.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
^ He may be the "good guy" in films like Hang 'em High (1967) or Dirty Harry (1971) but only because the bad guys are much, much worse.
[51] .^ Hang 'Em High (1968) 31.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ He said he’d never thought about making a film about Mandela until Freeman sent him the script, and even then, the decision to do it wasn’t based on anything other than that he thought it would make a good movie.- Why Clint Eastwood Hates Thinking - Page 1 - The Daily Beast 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After attaining minor fame in the TV series "Rawhide," Eastwood became a star in the wake of director Sergio Leone's spaghetti Western trilogy A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.- Clint Eastwood DVDs, Clint Eastwood DVD Rentals, Rent Clint Eastwood Movies at Netflix Today 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
[51] .^ He last played Harry Callahan aged 57 in The Dead Pool (1988), which was the age the character was supposed to be in the first film according to the original screenplay.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ They hang Cooper and leave him for dead, but he is rescued by Deputy U.S. Marshal Bliss (Ben Johnson) and later cleared by Judge Fenton (Pat Hingle).- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ He would later be considered to play Batman as an older man before Warner Brothers decided to proceed with Batman Begins (2005).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[52] .^ Is his production company, Malpaso .- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ His production company is Malpaso Productions, which he formed in 1968.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Returning to Hollywood, Eastwood formed his own production company, Malpaso, and signed on to make Hang 'Em High (1968), as a man who survives his own hanging and wreaks revenge on the nine men responsible.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[53] .^ Returning to Hollywood, Eastwood formed his own production company, Malpaso, and signed on to make Hang 'Em High (1968), as a man who survives his own hanging and wreaks revenge on the nine men responsible.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ He may be the "good guy" in films like Hang 'em High (1967) or Dirty Harry (1971) but only because the bad guys are much, much worse.
^ He was offered Gregory Peck’s role in Mackenna´s Gold in 1969, but turned it down to make Hang ´Em High in 1968 instead.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
[53] .^ Actors: Clint Eastwood , Inger Stevens , Ed Begley, Sr.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ Genre: Western / Drama Director: Ted Post Cast: Clint Eastwood , Inger Stevens , Ed Begley , Pat Hingle , James MacArthur , Arlene Golonka , Bruce Dern , Dennis Hopper , Ruth White , Ben Johnson , Charles McGraw , Alan Hale Jr. James Westerfield , L.Q. Jones , Joseph Sirola Rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is accosted by nine men, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley), and accused of stealing his neighbor's cattle and killing him.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Freeman’s occupational association with South Africa began with a role in the 1992 film “The Power of One,” the pious tale of a white boy coming to enlightenment in apartheid South Africa.
^ The film's money shots come at the end when blacks and whites cheer and embrace.
[54] .^ Clint Eastwood will definitely go down in cinema history as one of the greatest actor/directors of all time.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Again, after you've gone through all the various processes and the film comes out and is very successful, you're almost afraid to revisit it.
^ Eastwood was only two rankings behind his own all-time favorite film actor, James Cagney .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[55] .^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There was a period around ’96-’98 that I started renting Eastwood films like crazy, one or two a week or even three on a weekend.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Between 1970 and 1971 Clint made five films: Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) , Kellys Heroes (1970) , The Beguiled (1971) (another collaboration with Siegel), Play Misty For Me (1971) and Dirty Harry (1971) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[55] It was widely praised by critics including Arthur Winsten of the
New York Post who described
Hang 'Em High as "A Western of quality, courage, danger and excitement".
[56]
.^ After graduating from high school in 1949, Eastwood worked variously as a gas station attendant, a bar-room piano player and a firefighter before being drafted for a short time during the Korean War (he never saw action).- Gentle man Clint: profile of Clint Eastwood | Film | The Observer 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ From his working-class childhood and upbringing, Eastwood the artist drew upon a perspective that was often far more archetypically middle-American than those of other California-born actors and directors.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Returning to Hollywood, Eastwood formed his own production company, Malpaso, and signed on to make Hang 'Em High (1968), as a man who survives his own hanging and wreaks revenge on the nine men responsible.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[55] .^ All this domestic conviviality is a refreshing change for Eastwood, who was sued twice - and excoriated in a book - by his former lover Sondra Locke.
^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ PLAYBOY: If you look at the work of Clint Eastwood, director and actor, do you see many common threads?- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Play Misty For Me (1971) was set in Carmel, CA, where Clint Eastwood lived and became mayor in 1986.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ Synopsis: The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
.^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), both of which combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ All three films were hits, particularly the third, and Eastwood became an instant international star, redefining the traditional image of the American cowboy (though his character was actually a gunslinger).- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
[57] .^ Many B-movies later, he moved to New York and gained recognition as the trail boss Rowdy Yates in the successful TV series "Rawhide" (1959-66).
^ The boots that he wore in Unforgiven (1992) are the same ones he wore in the TV series "Rawhide" (1959).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ The boots that he wore in Unforgiven (1992) are the same ones he wore in the TV series Rawhide (1959).- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
[58] .^ Coogan’s Bluff (1968) would still see Eastwood as a “cowboy” but this time in the urban setting of New York City.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ About that team name: The South African national teams have been called the Springboks since time immemorial (New Zealand is known as the All Blacks).
.^ That decision launched Eastwood's team into consecutive shoots in Iceland for Flags ; limited shooting [due to Japanese government restrictions] on the island of Iwo Jima for both films; and inside caves in the Mojave Desert; among other locations, for Letters .- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ One of the strange things about the current enshrinement of The Shawshank Redemption is how rarely anyone recalls that Stephen King lifted most of his plot from this hugely underrated 1979 teaming of Eastwood and Don Siegel, their final work together.
^ Eastwood has always been very fitness conscious and has worked out heavily many hours a week with weights and other training methods throughout his life.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[57] .^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It's typical of Eastwood, however, that the next day he was up early to do interviews with journalists, which he does with great courtesy and minimum fuss.
^ Through the many years we have watch him entertain us one thing can be said about him, Clint Eastwood is a presents!- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[57] .^ What's so great and unique about Eastwood is you could have separate threads like this for his acting and directing careers, and both would be perfectly legitimate.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On the proviso that Freeman would play Madiba, Eastwood undertook to direct it from a script written by another South African living and working in Hollywood, Antony Peckham.
^ I find it amusing that people are compaining about Clint Eastwood being a liberal and wondering why he would care about the Republicans.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[57] .^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Jonathan Hemlock ( Eastwood ) is a professor of art history who formerly had a deadly secret life; he was a hired assassin working with an international intelligence organization.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ As a filmmaker, Eastwood learned his lessons from the best of his previous directors, Don Siegel and Sergio Leone , who knew just when to add some stylistic or visual flourish to an otherwise straightforward scene, and also understood the effect of small nuances on the big screen.- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
.^ This is a guy who's having bureaucratic obstacles thrown up within the police force, judicial system, city politics and all that.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ I remember (living in New York) in the early 1970's and seeing to my horror, how many NYPD police officers were being blown away every week.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ You remember the one, where the guy is a New York journalist who goes into Cambodia.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[59] .^ "I always felt that Morgan was the ideal guy and should play Nelson Mandela, even before there was a script," Eastwood said.
[59] .^ The film was called Dirty Harry .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I've been watching Eastwood closely in the Dirty Harry films and he seems a little shorter than ten years earlier.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood as "Dirty" Harry Callahan That same year he made a film which would take Eastwood from stardom to superstardom.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Eastwood’s next two films would be a war movie with Richard Burton entitled Where Eagles Dare (1968) , which was nothing more then a straight forward shoot’em up movie, and the terrible musical-comedy Paint Your Wagon (1969) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The movie—for which Eastwood was paid $40,000 plus 25 percent of the profits—was one of his highest-grossing films for that period.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ He next starred in his first bona fide blockbuster, "Where Eagles Dare" (1968), a World War II espionage actioner that followed a group of British special forces lead by a secretive major (Richard Burton) on a dangerous operation behind German lines to rescue a captured American general (Robert Beatty).
[60] .^ World War II was 4 years long.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Dirty Harry, the 1971 film about Harry Callahan, a San Francisco detective who takes the law into his own hands, not only launched three sequels but, to the amazement of Eastwood and Siegel, also seized the mood of many Americans who were as enraged about urban violence as they were about a legal system that failed to control thugs.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ He was going to play the villain Two-Face on the “Batman” (1966) TV series, but before the project began it was canceled.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ He was going to play the villain "Two-Face" on the "Batman" (1966) TV series, but the show was canceled before the project began.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ After his arrival, he played small roles in several Universal features (he's the pilot of the plane that napalms the giant spider at the end of Tarantula [1955]) before achieving some limited star status on the television series Rawhide .- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
.^ But certainly Sinatra wasn't worried - on Paint Your Wagon (1969).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1969 he was paid $750,000.00 for Paint Your Wagon.- Clint Eastwood | Trivia | Videos | Trailers | Movies | Biography | Quotes | Clint Eastwood - Information 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC clinteastwood-tribute.com [Source type: General]
^ Paint Your Wagon (1969) .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ He did, however, get a chink in his armor from his next film, "Paint Your Wagon" (1969) a much-maligned, but ultimately enjoyable Western musical set during the California gold rush about two prospectors (Eastwood and Lee Marvin) who somehow wind up married to the same woman (Jean Seberg).
^ He made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me in 1971, the same year he made his bow as Dirty Harry, the Magnum-toting cop who cemented his reputation as a superstar.
^ Actors: Lee Marvin , Clint Eastwood , Jean Seberg , Ray Walston , Harve Presnell .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
.^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ "I was away shooting Where Eagles Dare, and they flew over (Alan Jay Lerner and director Joshua Logan) and talked me back," he sighs, nearly 40 years later the film is still not to his liking.
^ I remember seeing that Great Film maker Michael Moore yelling at Wolf Blitzer about how bad the Veterans Health care is.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[61] It was extremely high budget for this period and eventually exceeded $20 million.
[61] .^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ He scored another honor in 2009 with a Golden Globe nod as Best Director for Invictus.- Clint Eastwood DVDs, Clint Eastwood DVD Rentals, Rent Clint Eastwood Movies at Netflix Today 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
^ First with his western, Unforgiven (1992), which garnered him an Oscar for best director and producer of the best picture, and nomination for best actor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
1970s
.^ I was working with Don at that time on Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970).- Bright Lights Film Journal | Interview with Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.brightlightsfilm.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), both of which combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ He began a partnership with action director Don Siegel, making such successes as Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled and Dirty Harry.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ John Wayne, who actually shot more native Americans (I would watch some Eastwood movies before making this statement about Eastwood whose protagonists were mostly everyone else except this indigenous group), made a similarly reflective piece called the Shootist as his last film.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Carlin, who knew of Freeman’s desire to make a film about Mandela, told him the story of Playing the Enemy, which had not yet been published.
.^ Eastwood's films have never been more interesting.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Though some saw the mystery thriller as a fair notch in Eastwood's belt, many complained that the film was simply too routine, and the elegiac movie quickly faded at the box office.- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[62] The film, which took four months to shoot and cost around $4 million to make,
[63] received mixed reviews, and
Roger Greenspun of the
New York Times reported, I'm not sure it is a great movie, but it is very good and it stays and grows on the mind the way only movies of exceptional narrative intelligence do".
[64]
.^ World War II was 4 years long.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), both of which combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood will next take the director's chair in the World War II dramas, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood starred in many of these films, including The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), plus Bronco Billy (1980) and Honkytonk Man (1982)—which spoofed Eastwood's tough-guy persona—and the mystical Western Pale Rider (1985).- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), both of which combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ The movie—for which Eastwood was paid $40,000 plus 25 percent of the profits—was one of his highest-grossing films for that period.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
It was last non-Malpaso film that Clint agreed to appear in.
[65] .^ Before postproduction on Invictus wrapped earlier this fall, he was already shooting a new film on location in Paris and London.
^ Shot entirely on location in South Africa, "Invictus" looks so natural and realistic that it will strike no one as a film dependent upon CGI and visual effects.
[63] Directed by Brian G. Hutton, the film involved hundreds of extras and dangerous special effects.
.^ The film is about a mysterious man who wanders into a small town begins to take over.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[63] The film received mostly a positive reception and its anti-war sentiments were recognized.
[65] The film has a respectable 83% fresh rating on
Rotten Tomatoes.
[66]
.^ He began a partnership with action director Don Siegel, making such successes as Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled and Dirty Harry.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Synopsis: The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ Unfortunately it failed to click with the public, compelling Eastwood to temporarily return to his old crash-bang-pow formula in his next few films.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
.^ John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim-and-proper Southern girl's school run by Martha Farnsworth ( Geraldine Page ). Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ The Beguiled (1971, DON SIEGEL) "We did everything we could to make it as true to the book as possible and not sugar coat it," recalls Eastwood of this adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's eerie Civil War set novel.
^ Clint Eastwood stars as a wounded Yankee soldier who seeks refuge in an all-girl's school in the South.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
[67] .^ EASTWOOD: I've had several films that were disappointing.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Both films dominated the Oscars, their wins including best picture and director for Eastwood.
^ I myself believe that that Eastwood cannot be fairly labled "racist" by Lee, because a minority was in fact represented in the film.- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
[67] .^ In one scene, as if to counter arguments that he's too old to play men who sleep with much younger women, Eastwood filmed himself standing half-naked in front of a mirror.
^ The movie—for which Eastwood was paid $40,000 plus 25 percent of the profits—was one of his highest-grossing films for that period.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ This was the fourth time that Eastwood had worked with director Don Siegel, and the pairing clearly works well, augmented here by a snazzy score by Lalo Schifrin.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
[69] .^ In January of this year, on the eve of his 79th birthday and less than two months before starting the Invictus shoot, he was busy promoting Gran Torino, which became the highest-grossing film of his career as actor or director.
^ Dedicated to his directorial mentors, "Sergio" (Leone) and "Don" (Siegel), the film was a solid commercial hit, grossing over $100 million over the course of its long run.
^ Also, however they film it and whatever way he decided to play it, Eastwood looked younger on the recent Ellen interview than he did in Grand Tarino.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
According to Eastwood and Jennings Lang, the film, aside from being poorly publicized, flopped due to Clint being "emasculated in the film".
[70]
.^ She plays the victim very well.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ We heard you playing piano the other day and you play very well.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
But my audience like to be in there vicariously with a winner. That isn't always popular with critics.
.^ Eastwood has stated, "My characters are usually calloused men with a sensitive spot for right and wrong."
I don't pretend to understand losers.
.^ Who cares what they think?- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Not the way you people think, anyway.
^ Those who want to hear his opinions are welcome to do so, but many people at this stage in his life probably couldn't care less what he has to say.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
It's a compulsive philosophy with them. Winners tell themselves, I'm as bright as the next person. I can do it. Nothing can stop me." - Eastwood on his role in
The Beguiled.
.^ And the pictures that were turning points in my career, such as Fistful of Dollars, were against the fad.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[71] .^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ John Wayne, who actually shot more native Americans (I would watch some Eastwood movies before making this statement about Eastwood whose protagonists were mostly everyone else except this indigenous group), made a similarly reflective piece called the Shootist as his last film.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Korea was there too as well as the easly spotted Dirty Harry, Million Dollar Baby as well as Play Misty for Me, not to mention that Eastwoods two sons feature in the movie too.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[72] .^ Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a president to an assassin.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
^ In one scene, as if to counter arguments that he's too old to play men who sleep with much younger women, Eastwood filmed himself standing half-naked in front of a mirror.
^ A Swedish metal band is named after him: The Clint Eastwood Experiences.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
.^ As Dis become more mainline, that could turn into a significant savings for this kind of work.” .- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ He directed his first movie, the thriller Play Misty for Me (1971), in which he played a man being stalked by a crazed female admirer whose obsession with him turns from seductive to violent.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[73] .^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Son of Clinton Eastwood (11 June 1906 - 22 July 1970) and wife Margaret Ruth Runner (1 September 1909 - 7 February 2006).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ His name is used as the title of the hit Gorillaz song and video "Clint Eastwood" (2001).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[74] .^ It's all in the performances that make the film for me.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[75]
Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan in
Dirty Harry
.^ You're going to get that crowd and that crowd only.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood only you know when to stop.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If you can go through a movie and lose your temper only once or twice, you're lucky.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Man: Well we KNOW what you are; all that remains to be decided is how much!- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "And I've probably bored my kids to tears by telling them that over and over, but I believe that if you strive to be the best that you can be, you will find, in some way, that things will happen for you."
^ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Dirty Harry "You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?'- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
.^ And once you've got it, once you feel it, you can't second-guess yourself.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Dirty Harry "You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?'- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
^ Only if you feel lucky.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Well, do ya, punk?"- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
^ Well Do Ya Punk.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Dirty Harry
.^ In the 1971 film Dirty Harry, he plays Inspector Harry Callahan.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Originally written by Harry Julian Fink and called Dead Right, Harry could have been anyone, in any city.
^ That same year, he played the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[76] .^ Harry Callahan (Eastwood, in a role meant for Frank Sinatra) is a sardonic, hard-working San Francisco cop who can't finish his lunch without having to foil a bank robbery with his 44 Magnum, "the most powerful handgun in the world."- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
^ Synopsis: Number three in the Dirty Harry series, The Enforcer equips macho cop Harry Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) with a female assistant, Kate Moore ( Tyne Daly ).- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ In a role that was originally slated for Frank Sinatra Eastwood made it his own and made Dirty Harry Callahan one of the most popular and famous characters in movie history.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ That same year, he played the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ It has so much, in fact, that it would be easy to write it off as gritty-cop-movie clich, were it not for the fact that Dirty Harry practically invented the genre.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
^ The result, eventually, was his first film as director and star, Play Misty for Me, and a series of his own westerns, which were among the best of the genre since the great days of Hawks and Ford.
.^ There was no reason it shouldn't be on time," says Eastwood.
^ "Everybody there was on a no-nonsense road," asserts Eastwood.
^ I understand why Dirty Harry entered the popular culture the way it did, but I don't think it's the work of art that The Beguiled is.- HTF DVD REVIEW: Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection - Home Theater Forum Community 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.hometheaterforum.com [Source type: General]
[77] .^ In the 1971 film Dirty Harry, he plays Inspector Harry Callahan.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood's films have never been more interesting.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Dirty Harry, the 1971 film about Harry Callahan, a San Francisco detective who takes the law into his own hands, not only launched three sequels but, to the amazement of Eastwood and Siegel, also seized the mood of many Americans who were as enraged about urban violence as they were about a legal system that failed to control thugs.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ He began a partnership with action director Don Siegel, making such successes as Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled and Dirty Harry.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Dirty Harry is a great example of how an actor can make a role his own; the part was originally offered to Frank Sinatra, then passed through the hands of John Wayne and Paul Newman, before Eastwood got hold of it.- Clint Eastwood Collection [6 Pack] - DVD 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.bestbuy.com [Source type: General]
^ That same year, he played the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
Feminists in particular were outraged by the film and at the Oscars for 1971 protested outside holding up banners which read messages such as "Dirty Harry is a Rotten Pig".
[79]
.^ Joe Kidd (1972) 37.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ He was in Joe Kidd and Any Which Way You Can, is listed as 6'4, and seemed a literal hair taller than Eastwood.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint Eastwood stars as Kelly, a former lieutenant whose illusions about the Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
.^ Or maybe just shoot up the place?- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Many saw his critically championed 1988 film Bird , starring Forest Whitaker (on the life of Charlie "Bird" Parker), as the direct product of this interest.- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[80] Outdoor sequences to the film were shot near
June Lake, east of the
Yosemite National Park.
[80]
.^ And yeah, White Hunter Black Heart is a very good film with one of Clint's most overlooked performances.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He's too good an actor not to be performing but, by the same token, he probably thinks that's enough.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Also the last time people called him an anti-semite he set the box office on fire.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Through the many years we have watch him entertain us one thing can be said about him, Clint Eastwood is a presents!- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Alongside Unforgiven, the grand conclusion, The Outlaw Josey Wales is arguably Eastwood's greatest contribution to the western, the genre he wears across him like a poncho.
.^ Clint Eastwood is great actor and director.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Naturally, managing all this was far more complicated than the workflow Eastwood's team followed on recent dramas such as Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby .- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
^ Informed of the compliment Freeman had just paid him as his only choice to direct "Invictus," Eastwood shoots back: "That's very kind of him.
.^ After roles in a handful of low-budget feature films during the 1950's, Eastwood sidled into unpretentious television stardom over seven years of Rawhide.
^ The film takes place during the troubled event in Grenada and although it was the Army that liberated the students however Eastwood plays it as the Marines.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It's far from perfect but it has a great cast doing their best to make an entertaining film out of an absurd plot.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[82]Joe Kidd received a mixed reception.
.^ Gran Torino , Eastwood spoke with South Asian news source ANI , recalling with fondness an earlier time, when mocking ethnic minorities was a-ok.- Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist: Movies: UGO 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ May 25, 2008 - 07:46 ET by FastEd big orange box, to work, I'm seeing a new side to you Noel.- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood also found work in American revisionist westerns like High Plains Drifter (1973), which he also directed.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Virtual "auteurist" control has enabled him to make unusual Westerns (HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, 1973; PALE RIDER, 1985) and cop movies exploring feminist concerns (SUDDEN IMPACT, 1983; TIGHTROPE, 1984).
^ "But it came simply, I did one picture, then I needed to do a Western picture because that's the genre I was brought up in so I did (High Plains Drifter).
.^ Synopsis: A mysterious and possibly otherworldly stranger comes to the rescue of a frontier town in this Western, which was strongly influenced by the George Stevens classic, Shane.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
They hire the stranger to defend the town against three felons soon to be released but fail to recognise that they once killed this stranger in a brutal whipping and that his reappearance is supernatural. The ghostly stranger forces the people to paint the town red and names it "Hell" and seeks revenge. Holes in the plot were filled in with black humor and
allegory, influenced by Sergio Leone.
[83] .^ The film tanked at the box office and Eastwood was furious with Warner Brothers (his home for over 30 years) for not marketing it properly.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film received massive critical praise, box office success and many awards and nominations including: nine Academy Awards nominations with four wins (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor [Hackman] and Best Editing), a DGA award for outstanding directorial achievement, and four Golden Globe nominations with two wins for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Both proved to be weak and werent that successful at the box office.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Many saw his critically championed 1988 film Bird , starring Forest Whitaker (on the life of Charlie "Bird" Parker), as the direct product of this interest.- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Release Date: February 10, 2009 Rating : 3 Starring: Clint Eastwood and multiple casts Written by: Various Directed by: Clint Eastwood or Don Siegel Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection is a compilation of films made for Universal with Clint Eastwood in the lead role between 1968 and 1975.- HTF DVD REVIEW: Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection - Home Theater Forum Community 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.hometheaterforum.com [Source type: General]
[84]
.^ EASTWOOD: There are some you turn down because you don't feel instinctively right about the material, or maybe you think you aren't the right guy.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Critics and the public alike loved the chemistry between Eastwood and Bridges, making the film one of the biggest hits of 1974.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood was 6'4" (193 cm) as a young man, but due to his age and recent back problems he is now (as of 2006) closer to 6'1"(185 cm).- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
.^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ That same year, he played the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ I was doing a film years ago in Las Vegas called The Gauntlet (1977), and I was with a friend of mine I've known for many years he's deceased now named Al Silvani, who was a fight trainer.- Bright Lights Film Journal | Interview with Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.brightlightsfilm.com [Source type: General]
[85] .^ PLAYBOY: In terms of casting women, you rarely seemed to go after conventional beauties: Geraldine Page in The Beguiled, Jessica Walter in Play Misty for Me, Kay Lenz in Breezy, Bernadette Peters in Pink Cadillac.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ I was the young guy who didn't have to worry too much."
^ However if you had a grandfather that age who had lost that much it would not be normal.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Funded in part by the city of Los Angeles, the film charts Hollywood's rapid evolution from a sleepy town to a gleaming center of glamour in the 1950s to its Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ Los Angeles Film Critics Association .- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
.^ The film would spawn four sequels but the consensus is that the first one is the best.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business, first running a traveling show that brought movies to small towns in the Midwest Read More .- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ So we did it in a more linear mode, but adding that first flashback to set what would happen in the film and let the viewer be aware there would be flashbacks.- How Clint Eastwood incorporated digital elements into Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC digitalcontentproducer.com [Source type: General]
[86] .^ As a result, his films consistently finish on schedule and on budget.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ This is perhaps best-remembered as the film Cimino directed on time and under budget.
^ I don't want to do films back-to-back like in the old days - preparing one as you're finishing another.
[86] The film was not a major critical or commercial success, it barely reached the Top 50 before disappearing and was only made available on video in 1998.
[87]
.^ In the 1971 film Dirty Harry, he plays Inspector Harry Callahan.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In Magnum Force, the follow-up to Dirty Harry, Eastwood plays Inspector Harry Callahan again.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Dirty Harry, the 1971 film about Harry Callahan, a San Francisco detective who takes the law into his own hands, not only launched three sequels but, to the amazement of Eastwood and Siegel, also seized the mood of many Americans who were as enraged about urban violence as they were about a legal system that failed to control thugs.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ That same year, he played the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Synopsis: The second Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force concerns itself with a vigilante group that has targeted notorious scofflaws for extermination.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
^ Korea was there too as well as the easly spotted Dirty Harry, Million Dollar Baby as well as Play Misty for Me, not to mention that Eastwoods two sons feature in the movie too.- Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[88] .^ EASTWOOD: I've had several films that were disappointing.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[89] .^ EDITED TO ADD: I'd also say that Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby are the only films from the last fifteen years to deserve their Best Picture wins.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Flags was released in October 2006 to good reviews but it failed to capture everyone like his previous two films ( Mystic River & Million Dollar Baby ) did.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Didn't you see what the right wing attack dogs did to him after the critical acclaim given to his great film, 'Million Dollar baby'??- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[90] New York Times critics such as Nora Sayre criticised the often contradictory moral themes of the film and
Frank Rich believed it "was the same old stuff".
[90]
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
.^ However not earning Academy Award nominations was something Eastwood was too by this point.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The chemistry was so good between the two that Bridges was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
The mountainous terrain of Montana can be seen in the background
.^ He had constant quality films over the next few years, teaming up with Jeff Bridges in the buddy action flick Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), and starring the "Dirty Harry" sequels Magnum Force (1973) and The Enforcer (1976/I), and the quintessential western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), the action flick The Gauntlet (1977), and the hugely successful comedy Every Which Way But Loose (1978) with Clyde the orangutan.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Thunderbolt And Lightfoot (1974, MICHAEL CIMINO) "They said the writer wants to direct it himself."
.^ In 1974, Eastwood teamed with a young actor named Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 R , 114 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) 59.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ He had constant quality films over the next few years, teaming up with Jeff Bridges in the buddy action flick Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), and starring the "Dirty Harry" sequels Magnum Force (1973) and The Enforcer (1976/I), and the quintessential western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), the action flick The Gauntlet (1977), and the hugely successful comedy Every Which Way But Loose (1978) with Clyde the orangutan.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood was also nominated for Best Actor.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Malkovich received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ However not earning Academy Award nominations was something Eastwood was too by this point.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[92] .^ The film failed to garner any Academy Award support despite its box office and critical success.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ EDITED TO ADD: I'd also say that Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby are the only films from the last fifteen years to deserve their Best Picture wins.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[93] .^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ You could think of two of these films (MISTY and BEGUILED) as the kind of thing Clint would do for artistic reasons, in between the Dirty Harry movies and the Man with No Name.- HTF DVD REVIEW: Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection - Home Theater Forum Community 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.hometheaterforum.com [Source type: General]
^ This was an ambitious assignment for Eastwood as he had never dabled in World War II (not from a directing stand point) and his films never seemed to be overly heavy on action.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[93]
.^ Synopsis: Clint Eastwood both directed and starred in this thriller based on a novel by Trevanian.- Clint Eastwood Filmography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
.^ Originally Posted by Greg David If it gets released anytime soon.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection revisits previously released DVDs of Eastwood’s early 1970’s Universal films at what will hopefully be an attractive price for fans of his.- HTF DVD REVIEW: Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection - Home Theater Forum Community 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.hometheaterforum.com [Source type: General]
[93] .^ All this domestic conviviality is a refreshing change for Eastwood, who was sued twice - and excoriated in a book - by his former lover Sondra Locke.
^ Learned mountain climbing for The Eiger Sanction (1975) because he felt the scenes were too dangerous for him to pay a stuntman to do for him.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ And it is Eastwood's last great turn as an action star that sticks with you: huffing and puffing alongside the motorcade, a superstar revealing an unusually vulnerable side.
.^ Gene Hackman was interesting because I gave the Unforgiven (1992) script to his agent and he said no, he didn't want to do anything violent.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ I myself believe that that Eastwood cannot be fairly labled "racist" by Lee, because a minority was in fact represented in the film.- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
[93] .^ However not earning Academy Award nominations was something Eastwood was too by this point.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Director.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ The film also received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Marcia Gay Harden), and Director.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
He taught Eastwood how to climb over some weeks of preparation in the summer of 1974 in
Yosemite.
.^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[94]
.^ Production Notes Of the other films, both The Eiger Sanction and The Beguiled contain the theatrical trailers and production notes available on their prior releases.- HTF DVD REVIEW: Clint Eastwood: American Icon Collection - Home Theater Forum Community 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.hometheaterforum.com [Source type: General]
.^ Danimal says on 27/Dec/09 RisingForce says on 26/Dec/09 Danimal, the average height loss for a 70 year old man is 1.2" and the average for an 80 year old man is 2".- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As a 70 year old myself, the body starts to talk loud and clear to use in this territory.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Danimal says on 29/Nov/09 Heightcritique says on 27/Nov/09 I don't think Clint has lost much height at 80 years old.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[95] .^ Old school values, which I think Eastwood is referring to would dictate we all have our own spiritual compass to guide us.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This crap of lets all just be friend shows that the politicians are not doing their jobs.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Eastwood was only two rankings behind his own all-time favorite film actor, James Cagney .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ There were some duds, too, including a James Bond-style mishap, The Eiger Sanction(1975).- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ As a child, Eastwood endured the Great Depression, which in turn left its mark on his later films.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ On a much happier note, Eastwood married television news journalist Dina Ruiz, 35 years his junior, and the couple had a baby daughter in December 1996.
[97]
.^ More than Outlaw Josey Wales .- Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist: Movies: UGO 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He had been startled by Forrest Carter's novel (entitled Gone To Texas) this vengeful tale of a farmer who turns guerrilla fighter after his family is massacred in the sunset of the American Civil War, and commissioned Philip Kaufman to write the script.
^ "I liked him as a person the first time I ever met him, because he was a fan of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales,' " Eastwood said.
Later it would be revealed that Forrest Carter's identity was fake, and that the real author was
Asa Carter, a onetime racist and supporter of
Ku Klux Klan school of politics.
[98] .^ He had been startled by Forrest Carter's novel (entitled Gone To Texas) this vengeful tale of a farmer who turns guerrilla fighter after his family is massacred in the sunset of the American Civil War, and commissioned Philip Kaufman to write the script.
^ Eastwood directed two important westerns during the revisionist '70's period in American filmmaking, High Plains Drifter (1973) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ Alongside Unforgiven, the grand conclusion, The Outlaw Josey Wales is arguably Eastwood's greatest contribution to the western, the genre he wears across him like a poncho.
.^ Eastwood only appears at all when Costner suggested he was a perfect fit for old Texas Ranger on his trail, and the director had originally wanted Denzel Washington.
^ JM: What was It like filming True Crime, in which your wife, Dina, your ex-girlfriend Frances Fisher, and your daughter by Fisher all appeared?
[99] .^ He was not nominated for an Academy Award, either as an actor or as a director, until age 62.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ He, Warren Beatty , Robert Redford , Mel Gibson , Richard Attenborough and Kevin Costner are the only directors best known as actors who have won an Academy Award as Best Director.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Former longtime companion Sondra Locke filed a palimony lawsuit against him after their break-up in 1990.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ However not earning Academy Award nominations was something Eastwood was too by this point.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Over that long career Eastwood had kept his personal life more discreet than most movie stars—until the end of his relationship with Sondra Locke, an actress and director who appeared in six Eastwood films and was his lover and companion for 14 years.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Shortly into 2006 it was announced that Eastwood would also make a film to coincide with Flags of our Fathers .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ What especially appealed to Eastwood was the troubled relationship in the film between the burglar and his daughter.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood directed his subsequent feature, A PERFECT WORLD (1993), wherein he portrayed an experienced lawman tracking down a dangerous escaped convict (Kevin Costner) with a seven year-old hostage/companion.
^ A sample of his whistling can be heard on the track "Big Noise" from his son Kyle Eastwood 's jazz CD "Paris Blue" (2004).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ After roles in a handful of low-budget feature films during the 1950's, Eastwood sidled into unpretentious television stardom over seven years of Rawhide.
Eastwood's eventual truce with the Native Indians in the finale was seen as an iconic one in relation to the nation's heritage and history
.^ After his discharge in 1953, Eastwood moved to Southern California and attended Los Angeles City College, studying drama and business administration under the G.I. Bill.- Clint Eastwood biography, information, news, pics (pictures), links and products (actor/director: Million Dollar Baby) 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]
^ After roles in a handful of low-budget feature films during the 1950's, Eastwood sidled into unpretentious television stardom over seven years of Rawhide.
^ "I liked him as a person the first time I ever met him, because he was a fan of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales,' " Eastwood said.
[101] The sacking caused an outrage amongst the
Directors Guild of America and other important Hollywood executives and resulted in a fine, reported to be around $60,000 for the violation.
[101] .^ First with his western, Unforgiven (1992), which garnered him an Oscar for best director and producer of the best picture, and nomination for best actor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ No other country in the world could have produced him as a person, actor or director.- Why Clint Eastwood Hates Thinking - The Daily Beast 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ All the people that know you and you work, will agree that you have been one of the Best Actors, Director & Producer and still is, that has passed through the doors of "Hollywood" You are a living Legend.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[101] .^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film re-teamed Eastwood with Morgan Freeman and let him work with Hilary Swank.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), both of which combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Through the many years we have watch him entertain us one thing can be said about him, Clint Eastwood is a presents!- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One of his most underrated films, it required Eastwood to be virtually to sole male actor in a cast of full of women: "There's nothing wrong with that," he grins.
Here, with the moody, gloomily beautiful, photography of Bruce Surtees, he creates a magnificent Western feeling"
.^ More than Outlaw Josey Wales .- Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist: Movies: UGO 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "I liked him as a person the first time I ever met him, because he was a fan of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales,' " Eastwood said.
^ On the other hand, it was Reynolds the one who sent Clint a copy of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", made into a major motion picture by Eastwood ( The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood focuses on one critical chapter.
^ It also applies to Eastwood, who, as one of America's greatest storytellers, finds enthralling tales and fashions them with finesse and an indomitable spirit.
^ He just left out one important thing; this nation has turned it's back on GOD; our creator; that's why America is in the shape it's in."- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
[103] .^ Weinraub reports: "Eastwood has numerous homes—in Bel-Air, in Shasta County [the old Bing Crosby estate] and in Sun Valley, Idaho.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ As a director, he has always refused, and refuses to this day, to test screen his films before their release.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Clint Eastwood arose from the world of TV Westerns to become the number one box-office star in the world, subsequently earning critical acclaim as a director.
.^ He would guest star on “Maverick” with James Garner, whom he would work with again some forty years later).- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Years later, Burt told Clint about this great novel called The Bridges of Madison County, and some time later, it was shot by Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County (1995)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Ranked #2 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[104] .^ Eastwood starred in many of these films, including The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), plus Bronco Billy (1980) and Honkytonk Man (1982)—which spoofed Eastwood's tough-guy persona—and the mystical Western Pale Rider (1985).- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Login or register to post comments The man with no name speaks .- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
^ "I liked him as a person the first time I ever met him, because he was a fan of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales,' " Eastwood said.
.^ Many critics were quite impressed with what the film had to say about violence, but whatever they saw, I couldn't find.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film failed to garner any Academy Award support despite its box office and critical success.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ High Plains Drifter proved to be a success for Eastwood and is considered by many to be one of his absolute best films and one of his best westerns.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ William Friedkin offered him the lead in Sorcerer (1977), but Eastwood didn't want to travel anywhere at that time.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ "I liked him as a person the first time I ever met him, because he was a fan of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales,' " Eastwood said.
^ On the other hand, it was Reynolds the one who sent Clint a copy of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", made into a major motion picture by Eastwood ( The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[105] .^ He tells a writer, "When you make a film, you must forget that anyone's ever going to see it.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ One of the first films I went to - I went with my dad because my mother didn't want to go see a war movie - was Sergeant York (1941).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ After 18 months of playing bit parts in Francis the Talking Mule movies and Revenge of the Creature (1955), Eastwood was dropped by Universal.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Other people say, "What the hell, I'll just play character parts and play them till I'm 90."- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[105] .^ The film was called Dirty Harry .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He began a partnership with action director Don Siegel, making such successes as Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled and Dirty Harry.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ PLAYBOY: In the Dirty Harry films you mete out justice to murderers.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ When America was great, a traitor like this would have been put up against the wall, and shot at daylight!- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ While serving in the Army during the Korean War, he survived a plane crash landing into the Pacific, north of San Francisco, and swam two miles to shore.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Every time I read the book, I actually end up laughing out loud!- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
[106] .^ The other thing they have in common is hatred for their worst nightmare: the liberated woman.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Play Misty For Me (1971, CLINT EASTWOOD) "At sometime in everyone's life, regardless of the situation they are in, they have had some kind of uncomfortable relationship like that.
^ Eastwood is not entirely part of the Hollywood establishment; his business is run out of Carmel, California, on the Monterey Peninsula, where he has served as mayor and run a restaurant.
[107] .^ But it was fun to talk about racial relations by playing a guy who doesn't want any part of anybody and is bitter because his neighborhood has all died off."
^ Didn't you see what the right wing attack dogs did to him after the critical acclaim given to his great film, 'Million Dollar baby'??- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me in 1971, the same year he made his bow as Dirty Harry, the Magnum-toting cop who cemented his reputation as a superstar.
[108][109]
The shootout on
Alcatraz Island which also included firing from the watch towers and inside the prison grounds was criticised for its level of violence
.^ The film was called Dirty Harry .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ PLAYBOY: In the Dirty Harry films you mete out justice to murderers.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1988, after a two-year hiatus, he returned to film: he starred in the fifth and seemingly final Dirty Harry adventure, The Dead Pool, and directed the critically acclaimed Charlie Parker biopic, Bird.
[110] .^ Its also Eastwoods highest grossing film ever.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ EDITED TO ADD: I'd also say that Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby are the only films from the last fifteen years to deserve their Best Picture wins.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ While at the Cannes film festival that year, Spielberg gave him the script to a supernatural thriller called Hereafter , which Eastwood is currently working on.- Why Clint Eastwood Hates Thinking - The Daily Beast 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Three other nominations were received, including Best Actor (Clint Eastwood).- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ After roles in a handful of low-budget feature films during the 1950's, Eastwood sidled into unpretentious television stardom over seven years of Rawhide.
[109] .^ Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (2004) (TV) ....- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[110]
.^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ As for upcoming projects, Eastwood has been mentioned to star in Henry in Love, a drama about an older man who marries a young woman, fathers a child, and then discovers that he has a terminal illness; and to direct Golf in the Kingdom, the story of a man who finds enlightenment while playing golf in Scotland.
^ Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood , Sondra Locke , Pat Hingle , William Prince , Bill McKinney , Michael Cavanaugh , Carole Cook , Mara Corday , Doug McGrath , Jeff Morris , Samantha Doane , Roy Jenson , Dan Vadis Clint Eastwood plays alcoholic policeman Ben Shockley who is assigned the duty of bringing prostitute Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) to Las Vegas to be a witness in a mob trial.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ After older stars like John Wayne , Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum turned the film down, Eastwood was cast.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[111] .^ However, Bird was a personal project, and indicated that the life of Clint Eastwood the director was entering a second, if not a third, act.
^ Eastwood may have been too young to fight in World War II, but he managed to miss out on action in Korea too.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ I know the difference between 6'2" and 6'4" when I see it and Eastwood had those extra two "lanky" inches which seperate a tall 6'2" from a rather lanky 6'4".- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
References to
political corruption and
organized crime were depicted in the film.
.^ Many saw his critically championed 1988 film Bird , starring Forest Whitaker (on the life of Charlie "Bird" Parker), as the direct product of this interest.- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ Many critics were quite impressed with what the film had to say about violence, but whatever they saw, I couldn't find.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Sean Cunningham should have been arrested for even thinking about making this film, let alone releasing it onto an unsuspecting public.- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
.^ IS it time for Clint Eastwood to retire?- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint also starred in Firefox (1982), Tightrope (1984), Pale Rider (1985), and Heartbreak Ridge (1986), which were all big hits but did not become classics.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ While at the Cannes film festival that year, Spielberg gave him the script to a supernatural thriller called Hereafter , which Eastwood is currently working on.- Why Clint Eastwood Hates Thinking - The Daily Beast 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[112]David Ansen of
Newsweek wrote, "You don't believe a minute of it, but at the end of the quest, it's hard not to chuckle and cheer".
[106]
.^ Every Which Way But Loose (1978, JAMES FARGO) "It was not quite the thing people were expecting," laughs Eastwood knowingly.
^ In 2000 Eastwood decided to star in another comedy but this time he did so with some fellow friends.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He started off the 80s with his Capra film called Bronco Billy (1980) and followed that with a sequel to Every Which Way But Loose entitled Any Which Way You Can .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Christ if the attitude by the people who love bush and hate everyone else existed in WW2 we would have lost!- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When Freeman and his production partner Lori McCreary received a script outline based on Carlin's book, Playing with the Enemy, he sent it on to Eastwood, who was intrigued.
^ Eastwood played a brunt reporter who believes the man is innocent and races against the clock to prove it.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
An orangutan named Manis was brought in to play Clyde, Geoffrey Lewis as the dimwitted Orville,
Beverly D'Angelo as his girlfriend and Sondra Locke as Lynn Halsey-Taylor, the country and western barroom singer.
.^ Its also Eastwoods highest grossing film ever.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood: Most of the time.
^ This film happened to be the second highest grossing film of 1978 behind Superman .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[113] .^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood wants to stick solely to directing, though he doesn't rule out going in front of the camera again.
^ The film takes place during the troubled event in Grenada and although it was the Army that liberated the students however Eastwood plays it as the Marines.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[113]
.^ Eastwood found even more solid work with the fact-based thriller Escape from Alcatraz (1979).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ And it is Eastwood's last great turn as an action star that sticks with you: huffing and puffing alongside the motorcade, a superstar revealing an unusually vulnerable side.
^ Eastwood was back with Don Siegel again, indeed he had requested him, but this was opposite the grizzled machismo they usually dealt in.
.^ While serving in the Army during the Korean War, he survived a plane crash landing into the Pacific, north of San Francisco, and swam two miles to shore.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ On the other hand, it was Reynolds the one who sent Clint a copy of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", made into a major motion picture by Eastwood ( The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwoods last film for the 70s was the true story of the men who escaped from Alcatraz prison.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
1980s
.^ The next two, Play Misty and Dirty Harry, were commercial, and then in the Eighties I did Bronco Billy and Honkytonk Man.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ He started off the 80s with his Capra film called Bronco Billy (1980) and followed that with a sequel to Every Which Way But Loose entitled Any Which Way You Can .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In the late 1990s he said that Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Bronco Billy (1980), Honkytonk Man (1982), Unforgiven (1992) and A Perfect World (1993) are the favorites of the films he had done.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ The couple have two grown children, Kyle, a musician, and Alison, an actress.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Every Which Way But Loose (1978, JAMES FARGO) "It was not quite the thing people were expecting," laughs Eastwood knowingly.
^ Mitchell Gant Any Which Way You Can (1980) ....- Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Look at Eastwood in Every Which Way But Loose, with no shirt on.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Its also Eastwoods highest grossing film ever.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film failed to garner any Academy Award support despite its box office and critical success.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Honkytonk Man (1982) 34.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood starred in many of these films, including The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), plus Bronco Billy (1980) and Honkytonk Man (1982)—which spoofed Eastwood's tough-guy persona—and the mystical Western Pale Rider (1985).- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Honkytonk Man 1982 PG , 122 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Clint developed an interest in film, and started trying out for bit parts in movies.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ I'd certainly agree that the first film had a huge impact, not just on movies, but on the popular culture.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ One of the first films I went to - I went with my dad because my mother didn't want to go see a war movie - was Sergeant York (1941).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
However, the majority of this feature was filmed in and around
Calaveras County, east of
Stockton, California. Exterior scenes include Main Street,
Mountain Ranch; Main Street,
Sheepranch; and the Pioneer Hotel in Sheepranch. Extras were locally hired and many of the towns residents are seen in the movie and his son Kyle played his nephew.
Honkytonk Man received critical acclaim, and has a score of 93% on
Rotten Tomatoes.
.^ This was an ambitious assignment for Eastwood as he had never dabled in World War II (not from a directing stand point) and his films never seemed to be overly heavy on action.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Aside from producing the critical and financial misstep The Stars Fell on Henrietta in 1995, Eastwood has proven to be largely successful in his subsequent efforts.- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ The names of Eastwood and stars Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon should propel this absorbing Warner Bros.
Russian filming locations were not possible due to the
Cold War, and the producers selected
Vienna and other locations in
Austria to simulate many of the Eurasian story locations. The film was shot on a $21 million budget.
.^ It was the fourth 'Dirty Harry' sequel, Sudden Impact (1983) (the highest grossing film of the series) that made him a viable star for the eighties.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Sudden Impact 1983 R , 117 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Sudden Impact (1983) 57.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Its also Eastwoods highest grossing film ever.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It would be a success and make Eastwood a star.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The movie—for which Eastwood was paid $40,000 plus 25 percent of the profits—was one of his highest-grossing films for that period.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ He was married to model Maggie Johnson and had a long time relationship with frequent co-star Sondra Locke .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ The film would go onto to be a box office success and secure a place for Clint as a respectable actor and a bankable star.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
President Ronald Reagan referred to his famous "
Go ahead, make my day." line in one of his speeches.
.^ He followed this with the cop thriller Tightrope (1984) and the misfire City Heat (1984) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint also starred in Firefox (1982), Tightrope (1984), Pale Rider (1985), and Heartbreak Ridge (1986), which were all big hits but did not become classics.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Having Jolie as your lead certainly gives it a provocative edge, and Eastwood couldn't be more thrilled with the outcome: "She's wonderful, she's wonderful," he beams like a proud father.
.^ What especially appealed to Eastwood was the troubled relationship in the film between the burglar and his daughter.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
).
.^ City Heat (1984) 13.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Which is exactly why Eastwood, at the peak of his box office appeal, elected to star alongside an orang-utan named Clyde (in reality a diffident ape named Manis) in a knockabout comedy originally intended for Burt Reynolds.
^ City Heat 1984 PG , 98 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ You don't seem to say, I'm doing a comedy this year, I'll do an action film next year.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ In 1985 he returned to the western genre with Pale Rider .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Pale Rider 1985 R , 113 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Pale Rider (1985) 49.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ An accomplished jazz pianist, he performs much of the music for his movies, including the scene in the bar in In the Line of Fire (1993).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Although similar to the spaghetti Westerns, the movie had even darker undertones because it featured a different type of hero—a cowboy who drew his gun first.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood also found work in American revisionist westerns like High Plains Drifter (1973), which he also directed.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Login or register to post comments The man with no name speaks .- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
^ "But it came simply, I did one picture, then I needed to do a Western picture because that's the genre I was brought up in so I did (High Plains Drifter).
The title is a reference to the
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is
Death.
.^ Weinraub reports: "Eastwood has numerous homes—in Bel-Air, in Shasta County [the old Bing Crosby estate] and in Sun Valley, Idaho.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
The opening credits scene featured the jagged
Sawtooth Mountains south of
Stanley. Train-station scenes were filmed in Tuolumne County, California, near Jamestown.
.^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ The film tanked at the box office and Eastwood was furious with Warner Brothers (his home for over 30 years) for not marketing it properly.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It wasn’t until around 1966 when Eastwood saw an article in a local newspaper that he realized that this film was getting attention.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The film also featured
Michael Moriarty,
Carrie Snodgress,
Christopher Penn,
Richard Dysart,
Sydney Penny,
Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath and
John Russell.
Pale ., is the only Eastwood film to have clear religious overtones throughout - though several of his other films such as
High Plains Drifter also make heavy use of spiritual and supernatural ideas and imagery.
^ EASTWOOD: I've had several films that were disappointing.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood is too old and too accomplished to have an interest in making a film only for money.
^ It’s unexplored terrain,” Eastwood tells me when I ask what drew him to the material, and indeed, though he has twice cast himself as something like an angel of death, in the existential westerns High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider, he has never made a film on an overtly supernatural subject.
.^ President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ The film received critical praise everywhere and even won Clint the Golden Globe for Best Director and a Golden Palm nomination at the Cannes Film Festival.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Heartbreak Ridge (1986) 32.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Heartbreak Ridge 1986 R , 126 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Clint also starred in Firefox (1982), Tightrope (1984), Pale Rider (1985), and Heartbreak Ridge (1986), which were all big hits but did not become classics.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
The film is about the 1983
U.S. invasion of Grenada,
West Indies. A portion of the movie was filmed on the island itself. The title comes from the
Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in the
Korean War.
.^ Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), both of which combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Now we have two pretend action heros (Eastwood and Schwarzenegger) supporting the REAL Last Action Hero in McCain!- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Posted: June 22, 2009 Description: Clint Eastwood is honored the coveted Brass Balls Award.- Clint Eastwood Loves His Brass Balls | SPIKE 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
.^ His fifth and final "Dirty Harry" movie, The Dead Pool (1988), was a minor commercial hit but severely panned by critics.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Many saw his critically championed 1988 film Bird , starring Forest Whitaker (on the life of Charlie "Bird" Parker), as the direct product of this interest.- Clint Eastwood - Ask.com 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ He began a partnership with action director Don Siegel, making such successes as Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled and Dirty Harry.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
It co-starred
Liam Neeson,
Patricia Clarkson, and a young
Jim Carrey.
.^ The only exception was Bird (1988) a movie about the life of Charlie Bird Parker a famous jazz musician.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood then proceeded to make some even more striking films, including Bird (1988), about the destructive life of jazz musician Charlie Parker (played by Forest Whitaker), and White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), in which Eastwood gave a broad performance as a macho, self-absorbed director, a character based on John Huston.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ However, Bird was a personal project, and indicated that the life of Clint Eastwood the director was entering a second, if not a third, act.
.^ However not earning Academy Award nominations was something Eastwood was too by this point.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film received critical praise everywhere and even won Clint the Golden Globe for Best Director and a Golden Palm nomination at the Cannes Film Festival.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film earned him an Oscar for best director; it also won the best picture award.
.^ Since then, he has appeared to have shrunk more.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood’s next two films would be a war movie with Richard Burton entitled Where Eagles Dare (1968) , which was nothing more then a straight forward shoot’em up movie, and the terrible musical-comedy Paint Your Wagon (1969) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ PLAYBOY: In terms of casting women, you rarely seemed to go after conventional beauties: Geraldine Page in The Beguiled, Jessica Walter in Play Misty for Me, Kay Lenz in Breezy, Bernadette Peters in Pink Cadillac.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Carlin, who knew of Freeman’s desire to make a film about Mandela, told him the story of Playing the Enemy, which had not yet been published.
^ Women who vote for her just because she's a woman and wants to take care of everyone are just a bunch of security whores.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Many actors who have made films about South Africa did not do that, and audiences picked up on it.
The film received generally poor reviews.
.^ IS it time for Clint Eastwood to retire?- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Get into the DeLorean with James Rolfe as he takes a ride back to 1955 for one of the greatest time...- Clint Eastwood Loves His Brass Balls | SPIKE 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]
^ Unfortunately Eastwood finished the 80s on a low note with a fifth and final sequel to Dirty Harry called The Dead Pool (1988) and the comedy Pink Cadillac (1989) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It is the laziest sort of action comedy, with lumbering chase scenes, a dull-witted script and the charmless pairing of Mr. Eastwood and Bernadette Peters."
.^ It is in precisely this gray zone that Freeman’s performance, justly praised by former New York Times South Africa correspondent Bill Keller as “less an impersonation than an incarnation,” grows large.
^ "Eastwood doesn't act in motion pictures, he is framed in them," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times in 1968.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ LA Times Interview Dec 6th 2009 Reporting from New York - Real Hollywood tough guys can wear Nike trainers or tasseled loafers.
She "loosens him [Eastwood] up... and humanizes him. These two make a nifty comic team." (
Washington Post, May 26, 1989.)
Pink Cadillac grossed just $12,143,484. In contrast, the movie Eastwood made just prior to
Pink Cadillac, the fifth Dirty Harry movie,
The Dead Pool, grossed $37,903,295.
1990s
.^ There's a line from the director character in White Hunter, Black Heart, patterned after John Huston.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) B+ 14.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood then proceeded to make some even more striking films, including Bird (1988), about the destructive life of jazz musician Charlie Parker (played by Forest Whitaker), and White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), in which Eastwood gave a broad performance as a macho, self-absorbed director, a character based on John Huston.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Shot entirely on location in South Africa, "Invictus" looks so natural and realistic that it will strike no one as a film dependent upon CGI and visual effects.
Some interiors were shot in and around
Pinewood Studios in England.
.^ They also took a small red pill multi-vitamin labeled "McCoy" which they used to say had prodigious properties.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
It received some critical attention but only had a limited release.
.^ Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), both of which combined tough-guy action with offbeat humor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ After older stars like John Wayne , Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum turned the film down, Eastwood was cast.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Shortly after his career declined with the outright bomb comedy Pink Cadillac (1989) and the disappointing cop adventure The Rookie (1990).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
Raul Julia and
Sonia Braga play German villains engaged in an illegal luxury car theft operation. The film features an unconventional
female-on-male rape scene.
.^ This character would prove to be the smartest choice Eastwood had ever made.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On the proviso that Freeman would play Madiba, Eastwood undertook to direct it from a script written by another South African living and working in Hollywood, Antony Peckham.
.^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ It seemed in 1988 like an astonishing break with his previous career to make a movie, only the second film (after Breezy) he directed without taking a star role, with more saxophone solos than gunshots on the soundtrack.
^ First with his western, Unforgiven (1992), which garnered him an Oscar for best director and producer of the best picture, and nomination for best actor.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ The film re-teamed Eastwood with Morgan Freeman and let him work with Hilary Swank.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It was universally agreed that Morgan Freeman was the right actor (Mandela and he met and got along famously), but the story, financing and deal never came together.
.^ Clint Eastwood is great actor and director.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Both proved to be weak and werent that successful at the box office.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ However not earning Academy Award nominations was something Eastwood was too by this point.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Both films dominated the Oscars, their wins including best picture and director for Eastwood.
^ The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Director.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood made the film that did get made.
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Then he took on the secret service in In the Line of Fire (1993), another huge hit.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ It was followed by In the Line of Fire (directed by Wolfgang Petersen) and two more films, A Perfect World, in which he co-starred with Kevin Costner (despite good reviews, the film was a box-office disappointment) and The Bridges of Madison County, in which he played a National Geographic photographer who has a brief affair with an Iowa housewife played by Meryl Streep.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ I’m thankful I was able to find his work as I’m frightened as to what kinds of films I would have like had I not found his wonderfully directed, paced and acted films.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This was always the plan; back when I did "Play Misty for Me" almost 40 years ago, was the idea that some day when I didn't want to act any more or wasn't in demand, I'd be able to direct films.
^ Going out on top, he recently said he will likely never act again, though he will continue to direct films.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ The film would go onto to be a box office success and secure a place for Clint as a respectable actor and a bankable star.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film tanked at the box office and Eastwood was furious with Warner Brothers (his home for over 30 years) for not marketing it properly.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film didnt do much at the box office and annoyed fans with its lazy writing and mediocre directing.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ It was followed by In the Line of Fire (directed by Wolfgang Petersen) and two more films, A Perfect World, in which he co-starred with Kevin Costner (despite good reviews, the film was a box-office disappointment) and The Bridges of Madison County, in which he played a National Geographic photographer who has a brief affair with an Iowa housewife played by Meryl Streep.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood only appears at all when Costner suggested he was a perfect fit for old Texas Ranger on his trail, and the director had originally wanted Denzel Washington.
^ This was an ambitious assignment for Eastwood as he had never dabled in World War II (not from a directing stand point) and his films never seemed to be overly heavy on action.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Both proved to be weak and werent that successful at the box office.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film would go onto to be a box office success and secure a place for Clint as a respectable actor and a bankable star.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This film grossed $30 million during its opening weekend in 2009, making him the oldest leading man to reach #1 at the box office, and another one of his biggest hits.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
The film received largely positive reviews, with an 85% score on
Rotten Tomatoes.
[114][115] .^ Eastwood focuses on one critical chapter.
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ The movie—for which Eastwood was paid $40,000 plus 25 percent of the profits—was one of his highest-grossing films for that period.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[116] Cahiers du cinéma selected
A Perfect World as the best film of 1993.
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.^ She would have loved to play the part Meryl played.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ Next up was The Bridges of Madison County (1995), a popular love story with Meryl Streep .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ I remember when Meryl saw Bridges of Madison County.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ It is based on a best-selling novel by David Baldacci about a skilled career burglar who inadvertently witnesses a murder in which the president of the U.S. participates.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ This film grossed $30 million during its opening weekend in 2009, making him the oldest leading man to reach #1 at the box office, and another one of his biggest hits.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ The film was loved by audiences and made close to $100 million at the box office.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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.^ He directed and starred in the well-received Absolute Power (1997) and Space Cowboys (2000), and the badly received True Crime (1999) and Blood Work (2002).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ It's interesting, given his penchant towards directing or starring in westerns, that his name, Clint Eastwood, is an anagram for 'old west action.'- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ He stars in his new movie, Absolute Power, which opens this month.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ The film starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ People like you who voted twice for the worst president ever are the ones who are responsible for our mess.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is based on a best-selling novel by David Baldacci about a skilled career burglar who inadvertently witnesses a murder in which the president of the U.S. participates.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ It was a moment, symbolized by the 1994 election of Mandela (who is played in Invictus by Morgan Freeman) as the country’s first freely elected president, celebrated the world over.
.^ His next directorial effort is an adaptation of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ After older stars like John Wayne , Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum turned the film down, Eastwood was cast.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ It's interesting, given his penchant towards directing or starring in westerns, that his name, Clint Eastwood, is an anagram for 'old west action.'- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ They have also appeared in three movies together: Pink Cadillac (1989), Unforgiven (1992) and True Crime (1999).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood took another year off and then in 1999 returned the thriller True Crime which featured an innocent man on death row.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He directed and starred in the well-received Absolute Power (1997) and Space Cowboys (2000), and the badly received True Crime (1999) and Blood Work (2002).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Play Misty For Me (1971, CLINT EASTWOOD) "At sometime in everyone's life, regardless of the situation they are in, they have had some kind of uncomfortable relationship like that.
^ Mayor Clint "Play Mist For Me" Eastwood talks about too many issues at once!- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Keeping up with Clint Eastwood, I discover, can be an exhausting task for all but Eastwood himself.
Everett discovers that Beechum might be innocent, but has only a few hours to prove his theory and save Beechum's life. The film was a large box-office bomb domestically.
.^ This film grossed $30 million during its opening weekend in 2009, making him the oldest leading man to reach #1 at the box office, and another one of his biggest hits.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
It received mixed reactions from critics, with a score of 51% on
Rotten Tomatoes.
2000s
.^ He directed and starred in the well-received Absolute Power (1997) and Space Cowboys (2000), and the badly received True Crime (1999) and Blood Work (2002).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Clint Eastwood was slightly taller than Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heros, who had two inches on Sean Connery about the same time.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It's interesting, given his penchant towards directing or starring in westerns, that his name, Clint Eastwood, is an anagram for 'old west action.'- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ The film, based upon the book "Playing the Enemy" by John Carlin, has an understandably narrow focus of 1995 South Africa.
The film was also one of the year's commercial hits.
.^ Blood Work (2002) C 24.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood then took two years off only to return with the clunky and formulaic thriller Blood Work in 2002.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On the proviso that Freeman would play Madiba, Eastwood undertook to direct it from a script written by another South African living and working in Hollywood, Antony Peckham.
.^ (April 2001) Developing adaptations of "Blood Work" and "Mystic River" with writer Brian Helgeland .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ The film received Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor (Eastwood), Best Supporting Actor (Freeman), Best Actress (Swank), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture and Best Editing.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ The film earned him an Oscar for best director; it also won the best picture award.
.^ Mystic River (2003, CLINT EASTWOOD) "No one was too excited about Mystic River, they thought it was too dark, they couldn't see it."
.^ It didn't feel, well, very Clintish, and he wasn't going to be in it - Sean Penn (who one Best Actor for his performance as a local hoodlum), Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins were the three friends who share a painful past, which echoes into the present.
^ Genre: Drama / Mystery Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Sean Penn , Tim Robbins , Kevin Bacon , Laurence Fishburne , Marcia Gay Harden , Laura Linney , Kevin Chapman , Adam Nelson , Emmy Rossum , Cameron Bowen , Tom Guiry , Spencer Treat Clark , Eli Wallach Three childhood friends–Jimmy (Sean Penn), Dave (Tim Robbins), and Sean (Kevin Bacon)–reunite after Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter, Katie (Emmy Rossum), is found murdered.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ The film starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linney.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The film earned him an Oscar for best director; it also won the best picture award.
^ The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Clint Eastwood won for Best Director, and Gene Hackman won for Best Supporting Actor.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Director.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Million Dollar Baby (2004) 44.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1964, during a four-month break in the Rawhide production schedule, Eastwood accepted an offer of $15,000 to fly to Spain and star in A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ However, Eastwood rose to prominence once again, starring opposite Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman in what is arguably the best film of his career: the boxing drama Million Dollar Baby (2004).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Carlin, who knew of Freeman’s desire to make a film about Mandela, told him the story of Playing the Enemy, which had not yet been published.
^ Interesting.Does anybody know how much taller Eastwood was than Morgan Freeman in 1992 in the Unforgiven?- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film re-teamed Eastwood with Morgan Freeman and let him work with Hilary Swank.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Clint Eastwood is great actor and director.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Eastwood was also nominated for Best Actor.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ (Their two previous collaborations, “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby,” both won best picture Oscars.
^ The film received massive critical praise, box office success and many awards and nominations including: nine Academy Awards nominations with four wins (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor [Hackman] and Best Editing), a DGA award for outstanding directorial achievement, and four Golden Globe nominations with two wins for Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It received wide spread critical praise and received Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor (Penn), Best Supporting Actor (Robbins), Best Supporting Actress (Gay Harden), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Eastwood also received a
Grammy nomination for the score he composed for the film.
.^ Its also Eastwoods highest grossing film ever.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Million Dollar Baby (2004) 44.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ The movie—for which Eastwood was paid $40,000 plus 25 percent of the profits—was one of his highest-grossing films for that period.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[119]
.^ Shortly into 2006 it was announced that Eastwood would also make a film to coincide with Flags of our Fathers .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "The story was about the men who raised the flag and we can't make them black if they were not there.- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
^ Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 41.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 41.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ The Americans who went to Iwo Jima knew it would be a tough fight, but they always believed they'd win.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 R , 140 min.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Both films dominated the Oscars, their wins including best picture and director for Eastwood.
^ The film earned him an Oscar for best director; it also won the best picture award.
^ Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 41.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood holds his Oscars for Unforgiven Eastwood followed this with the Wolfgang Peterson directed CIA thriller In the Line of Fire (1993) and the self directed drama A Perfect World (1993) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He directed 9 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Gene Hackman , Meryl Streep , Sean Penn , Tim Robbins , Marcia Gay Harden , Morgan Freeman , Hilary Swank , Angelina Jolie , and himself (in Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood and Swank in Million Dollar Baby That following year Eastwood stuck Oscar gold again with the drama Million Dollar Baby (2004) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ After this he took a four-year acting hiatus before starring in Gran Torino (2008).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Clint will produce and direct the film.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ It seemed in 1988 like an astonishing break with his previous career to make a movie, only the second film (after Breezy) he directed without taking a star role, with more saxophone solos than gunshots on the soundtrack.
^ The film took home Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Eastwood's third directing nod.
[121] .^ This film grossed $30 million during its opening weekend in 2009, making him the oldest leading man to reach #1 at the box office, and another one of his biggest hits.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood, who first appeared in the Top Ten at #5 in 1968, finished #2 to Wayne at the box office in 1971 after finishing #2 to Paul Newman in 1970.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ The bill would grant in-state tuition and amnesty to more than a million illegal aliens under the age of 30.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Its also Eastwoods highest grossing film ever.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood's recent Gran Torino is his higest grossing film of all time.- Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist: Movies: UGO 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Gran Torino , Eastwood spoke with South Asian news source ANI , recalling with fondness an earlier time, when mocking ethnic minorities was a-ok.- Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist: Movies: UGO 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Eastwood: Most of the time.
^ EASTWOOD: There was a lot of talk like that, but only because Reagan was president at the time and everybody thought, Well, here's another movie actor who is going to try to do something political.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ "They said, 'No boxing movies have done well in recent times and a woman boxing has never done well,'" says Eastwood.
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.^ Matt Damon, the next Eastwood?- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Mandela forms a friendship with rugby player Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon) who is captain of the Springbok, South Africa's rugby team.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ So he begins to woo its Afrikaner captain, Francois Pienaar (Damon), to his cause.
.^ Carlin, who knew of Freeman’s desire to make a film about Mandela, told him the story of Playing the Enemy, which had not yet been published.
^ It was universally agreed that Morgan Freeman was the right actor (Mandela and he met and got along famously), but the story, financing and deal never came together.
^ The film received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director (Clint Eastwood), Actress (Hilary Swank), and Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman).- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
[124] .^ The names of Eastwood and stars Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon should propel this absorbing Warner Bros.
^ Inside, after Eastwood fans Ken Watanabe, Kenny Chesney, Michelle Monaghan, Herbie Hancock, and Ken Howard found their seats and Warner Bros.
have purchased the film rights to James R. Hansen's
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, the authorized biography of astronaut
Neil Armstrong. No production date has been announced.
.^ I called Morgan back and said, "Yes, I'd love to do this," and if it wasn't set up anywhere I would set it up at Warner Bros.
^ The names of Eastwood and stars Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon should propel this absorbing Warner Bros.
^ (September 2008) In pre-production for the Nelson Mandela movie Invictus (2009), where his good friend, 'Morgan Freeman I)', will be acting as Nelson Mandela .- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood only you know when to stop.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint Eastwood has been working all his life in movies and behind the camera.He's like Paul Newman.You never hear a bad thing about him.The press only reports bad things,sex scandels etc.Sooo when they see Clint tired from working they jump all over him.Clint will retire when he wants not when they want him too.Keep up the work you are number 1 in my book.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And it is Eastwood's last great turn as an action star that sticks with you: huffing and puffing alongside the motorcade, a superstar revealing an unusually vulnerable side.
[citation needed] Eastwood currently donates funds toward the new
CSUMB campus library.
.^ The new DVD has a lot of interesting insights about Eastwood, including a documentary narrated by John Cusack.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Already, there is much discussion about Eastwood’s next project, Hereafter, which he expects to begin shooting by early fall.
The film is tentatively titled
Dave Brubeck – In His Own Sweet Way. It will trace the development of Brubeck's latest composition, the Cannery Row Suite. This work was commissioned by the
Monterey Jazz Festival and premiered at the 2006 festival.
.^ It remains one of Eastwoods best films and also features some of the strongest supporting performances in any Eastwood film.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Eastwood also shares an incident that tells me a great deal about how he works.
^ Matt worked with a great dialogue coach and he really wanted to do the accent well," explains Eastwood.
^ "They said, 'No boxing movies have done well in recent times and a woman boxing has never done well,'" says Eastwood.
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2010s
.^ It was Siegel who encouraged Eastwood to direct his first feature film, Play Misty for Me (1971), a thriller about a disc jockey (played by Eastwood) who becomes involved with a psychotic fan.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ The film took home Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Eastwood's third directing nod.
^ EASTWOOD: When you get into directing films it becomes a little different because directing is so time-consuming.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ The names of Eastwood and stars Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon should propel this absorbing Warner Bros.
.^ May 24, 2008 - 21:19 ET by Jerry I watched an old movie the other day called Zulu (1964).- Hollywood Feud: Clint Eastwood vs Spike Lee | NewsBusters.org 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]
^ November 20th, 2009 3:43 pm ET Eastwood apparently likes the good old days, and apparently don't like what is going on now a days.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Filming will commence in early 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ I've acted in 29 films and worked four days for Clint in "Flags of Our Fathers."- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[126]
.^ I love everything from his westerns, the first three Dirty Harry's, his Every Which Way...orangutaun films, to his acclaimed directorial work.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There was a period around ’96-’98 that I started renting Eastwood films like crazy, one or two a week or even three on a weekend.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Before postproduction on Invictus wrapped earlier this fall, he was already shooting a new film on location in Paris and London.
Scenes were also filmed on the
Heygate Estate.
[127] .^ By the late Sixties, the three films had established Eastwood's reputation as an international superstar, initially more popular abroad than at home.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ There was a period around ’96-’98 that I started renting Eastwood films like crazy, one or two a week or even three on a weekend.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Some felt Eastwood deserved the Best Director Oscar but was robbed since Peter Jackson won for all three Lord of the Rings films.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Production next moved to the
San Francisco Bay Area. On January 19, scenes featuring Damon were shot at the
California and Hawaiian Sugar Company refinery in
Crockett, California, which represents a flour mill on screen. Production returns to London on January 29 to shoot the final scenes with Damon.
[128]
Variety has described the script as a thriller "in the vein of
The Sixth Sense."
Peter Morgan told
The Hollywood Reporter, "It's quite spiritual material, and quite romantic, too.
.^ "I ended up liking him very much, but we had to piece that script together."
^ Now it could be because his hair was more bouffed up in the 1970s but I could not honestly be so sure he was 6'4" in that film as in Magnum Force.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Its barrage of nifty stunts and snowy locations, and the ping pong of double crosses that make up the twist ending, have granted the film a bank holiday charm.
.^ I can only hope that you and others do too.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There are many other more dominating factors involved and it's people like you that have made it this way with your blaming and lack of accountability.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ You get to a certain age and I'm there too, where you don't want to tell a lot of violent stories, but this is a chance to make a great statement".- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[129]
Other projects
.^ The producers of Dirty Harry (1971) originally didn't want Eastwood, since they felt he was too young at 41.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Shaun says on 26/Nov/09 Aleks, Eastwood weight trained from a young age and at one point in the 1970s was obsessed with fitness and eating healthily.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I am John Travolta's age, I once disco'd and wore the platform shoes and I love old school music.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
[130] He dabbled in music early on and in late 1959 had produced the album
Cowboy Favorites which was released on the Cameo label.
[130] .^ Mentioned on T.G. Sheppard 's hit single "Make My Day," which in the first half of 1984 reached #12 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart and also reached #62 on that magazine's Hot 100 singles survey.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
[130] .^ Eastwood accepted the role for $15,000.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1964, during a four-month break in the Rawhide production schedule, Eastwood accepted an offer of $15,000 to fly to Spain and star in A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
[131]
Eastwood has his own
Warner Bros. .^ After the deal, she pitched more than 30 projects; Warner Bros.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
This deal was unchanged when
Warner Music Group was sold by Time Warner to private investors.
.^ The Bridges of Madison County (1995) 10.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Years later, Burt told Clint about this great novel called The Bridges of Madison County, and some time later, it was shot by Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County (1995)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ PLAYBOY: You've written the main themes for Bridges of Madison County and other films.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
.^ Eastwood opens his biopic of jazz great Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker with a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'there are no second acts in American lives.'
^ He lives in Carmel and has been married to his second wife Dina Eastwood since 1996.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Years later, Burt told Clint about this great novel called The Bridges of Madison County, and some time later, it was shot by Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County (1995)).- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Clint Eastwood will definitely go down in cinema history as one of the greatest actor/directors of all time.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 2000 Eastwood decided to star in another comedy but this time he did so with some fellow friends.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I know the difference between 6'2" and 6'4" when I see it and Eastwood had those extra two "lanky" inches which seperate a tall 6'2" from a rather lanky 6'4".- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From Eastwood's point-of-view it was a good payday ($800,000) even if he got second billing, and an opportunity to prove himself a on different ground.
^ One producer rather exaggeratingly said in one of his late 60s films "Eastwood arrived at the studios and came in looking seven feet tall".- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
. In 1985, he made his only foray into TV direction to date with the
Amazing Stories episode
Vanessa In The Garden, starring Harvey Keitel and Sondra Locke; this was his first collaboration with writer/executive producer Steven Spielberg (Spielberg later produced
A Perfect World,
Flags of Our Fathers, and
Letters from Iwo Jima).
^ Flags of our Fathers TV Spots and Featurette .
^ January (8) ► February (2) ► March (1) ► April (1) ► May (10) ► September (1) ▼ 2009 (86) ► February (52) A Perfect World 1993 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Absolute Power 1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997 True Crime 1999 Space Cowboys 2000 Blood Work 2002 Mystic River 2003 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Flags of our Fathers 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 The Changeling 2008 Gran Torino 2008 Feb 25th 2007: Ennio Morricone's Oscar Night prese...
^ I, too, believe that we should not be sending our troops to "police the world's problems" as my father used to say.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The film took home Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Eastwood's third directing nod.
^ I entered some projects, such as White Hunter, Black Heart, knowing they would probably not be hard-core commercial films.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ This was an ambitious assignment for Eastwood as he had never dabled in World War II (not from a directing stand point) and his films never seemed to be overly heavy on action.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Eastwood: Everything is contingent upon the material.
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[132] .^ There are many other more dominating factors involved and it's people like you that have made it this way with your blaming and lack of accountability.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ [Editor Rob: sometimes I don't have time, or at least energy with other non-work things I'm doing.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Many people on here made great points and said some things I have thought and expressed my self for many years.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
Similarly, he has a long-term relationship with the
Warner Bros. studio, which finances and releases most of his films.
.^ Gran Torino , Eastwood spoke with South Asian news source ANI , recalling with fondness an earlier time, when mocking ethnic minorities was a-ok.- Clint Eastwood - Some Of My Best Friends Are Racist: Movies: UGO 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At this time Eastwood had already made two sequels to the film called: For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ American screen icon clint Eastwood still remains my all time top 5 western Icons, .- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ It remains one of Eastwoods best films and also features some of the strongest supporting performances in any Eastwood film.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Some felt Eastwood deserved the Best Director Oscar but was robbed since Peter Jackson won for all three Lord of the Rings films.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[133] .^ His city was another matter of destiny: "We were looking to make it in Seattle, but decided to stop off in San Francisco.
^ Born on May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, the older child of Clinton and Ruth Eastwood, Clinton Eastwood Jr. Depression-era childhood that profoundly affected him.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ In one picture Eastwood looked 5'11" and Pitt was two inches taller and then in the other one their height were reversed and pitt looked 5'11 and Eastwood 6'1.5-6'2"!!- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Clint Eastwood is great actor and director.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Unforgiven (1992) is the most acclaimed film of Eastwood's career, winning an Academy Award as best picture and earning him an Oscar as best director.- Clint Eastwood Interview - Clint Eastwood 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The film was called Dirty Harry .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood and Swank in Million Dollar Baby That following year Eastwood stuck Oscar gold again with the drama Million Dollar Baby (2004) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Play Misty For Me (1971, CLINT EASTWOOD) "At sometime in everyone's life, regardless of the situation they are in, they have had some kind of uncomfortable relationship like that.
Politics
Eastwood registered as a
Republican in order to vote for
Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and he supported
Richard Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns, but later criticized Nixon's morality during Watergate (see the February 1974 edition of
Playboy).
[134] .^ When he resigned in disgrace, conservatives were maligned, yet he governed like liberal FDR. .- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ McCain is a liberal republican, the wealthy republicans who support him are usually socially liberal they only reason they are republicans is to try and keep their taxes lower, otherwise they'd be Dems.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Clealry a believer in "MYOB", a concept neither liberals or social conservatives seem capable of grasping.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[135] .^ Clint Eastwood is great actor and director.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Knew he'd be the BEST: actor/producer/director…all around iconic, handsome, sexy and fascinating actor and man.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Easily one of my all time favorite actors, and he's evolved into one of our very best directors.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[137] .^ The film took home Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Eastwood's third directing nod.
^ On the proviso that Freeman would play Madiba, Eastwood undertook to direct it from a script written by another South African living and working in Hollywood, Antony Peckham.
^ It’s sad to see him in his later years,” added another onset insider.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[139]In general, Eastwood has favored less governmental interference in both the private economy and the private lives of individuals.
.^ I believe, Health Care, Education, Social Security and Defense are the primary concerns of the government should focus on at this time.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Those that feel entitled to have everything handed to them instead of earning something.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ So let states be the difference and let the federal government get back to providing liberty and protection, instead of welfare.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I campaigned in Florida against the national catastrophic insurance fund bill that passed the House of Representatives and defended my opposition to the prescription drug benefit bill that saddled Americans with yet another hugely expensive entitlement program.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I campaigned in New Hampshire against big government mandated health care and for a free market solution to the problem of unavailable and unaffordable health care.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Soviet Union imploded, much as we will if we continue to spend 100s of billions on military and "security" and nothing on infrastructure or encouraging companies to embrace alternative energy sources.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ All Romney said was that he was pro-life but lived in a pro-choice state so he wouldn't change try to change that.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Eastwood has always been a brilliant player of the Hollywood system, wise enough to see limits as challenges: "I don't believe in pessimism," he shrugs.
[140] He has also endorsed the notion of marriage equality (i.e. allowing gays to marry),
[141] just as he had once contributed to groups supporting the Equal Rights Amendment for women.
.^ This was an ambitious assignment for Eastwood as he had never dabled in World War II (not from a directing stand point) and his films never seemed to be overly heavy on action.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "I always felt that Morgan was the ideal guy and should play Nelson Mandela, even before there was a script," Eastwood said.
.^ The left wing nut jobs blame the right wing nut jobs who blame the left wing nut jobs and so on...- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What I see is nothing but selfishness and out right greed.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Before socialists came to power, they were erroneously considered “left wing” (as they are erroneously considered today) because they championed the rights of the people.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[134] .^ If one listens to Sean Hannity, for example, then "conservative" tends to mean either a “social conservative” or otherwise “anything-that-isn't-Democrat.” These are false notions.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[141].^ November 18th, 2009 1:24 pm ET This is not a political statement by Clint, so why are so many of you trying to make it into one.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Cal, you do know that Clint is the former republican Mayor of Carmel, California, don't you?- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Mr Eastwood is not only an actor of superb skill, but has become one of the truly great directors.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ During his term in office he made a military film called Heartbreak Ridge .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[142]
In 2001, he was appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission by Democratic Governor
Gray Davis.
[143] .^ Voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California in 2003 and 2006.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
^ Eastwood also looked shorter than 6' Arnold Schwarzenegger recently and 5'11" Brad Pitt(who may have worn lifts, but his shoes didn't look ridiculous).- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ T12/6/06: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.- Clint Eastwood - Biography 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: General]
Soon afterwards Governor Schwarzenegger announced a proposal to close 80 percent of California State Parks.
.^ One of his most underrated films, it required Eastwood to be virtually to sole male actor in a cast of full of women: "There's nothing wrong with that," he grins.
^ That's why Clint Eastwood, who turned 79 this year, is still considered one of the most dynamic and impressive directors in the business.
^ In a role that was originally slated for Frank Sinatra Eastwood made it his own and made Dirty Harry Callahan one of the most popular and famous characters in movie history.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Eastwood and Shriver also supported a 2006 lawsuit to block the toll road and urged the California Coastal Commission to reject the project, which it did in February 2008.
[145]
In March 2008, Eastwood and Shriver, whose terms had expired, were not reappointed.
[145] The
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) asked for a legislative investigation into the decision to not re-appoint Eastwood and Shriver, citing their opposition to the toll road extension.
[146] .^ Leone mentioned that Eastwood was like a block marble because he was constantly changing and chipping away at the block and creating something new.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ What's so great and unique about Eastwood is you could have separate threads like this for his acting and directing careers, and both would be perfectly legitimate.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And if Invictus happens to collect a couple of Oscars next year, which is highly probable, it would not be because Eastwood had intended it, or even that he hoped for it, but that they would be richly deserved.
[147][148] This extension is likewise supported by Governor Schwarzenegger.
[147][148] .^ No better actors than Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance and too many others to mention.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Leone mentioned that Eastwood was like a block marble because he was constantly changing and chipping away at the block and creating something new.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And NO ONE CAN EVER REPLACE YOU AS CORNER STONE OF AMERICA! THANK YOU MR. EASTWOOD YOU STILL GOT IT! .- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[149][150]Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Eastwood (along with actor and director
Danny DeVito, actor and director Bill Duke, producer Tom Werner and producer and director Lili Zanuck) to the California Film Commission in April 2004.
[151].^ What is the problem with Lynn Cheney as Vice President to balance liberal John McCain.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Clint Eastwood states: " I like John McCain,personally,very much."- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I have a suggestion that should appeal to all disillusioned conservatives: Elect Hillary to the presidency, but appoint John McCain to be the pilot of Air Force One.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[152] .^ Not only did he leave prison to become president, but he did not hold a great sense of bitterness towards the people who had imprisoned him.
^ Aleks says on 16/Aug/09 I think Eastwood was 6'3" peak and 6'3" when he made Unforgiven.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Be it because he was slouching, others wore lifts, or photos were doctored, I no longer think Eastwood lost as much height as I thought.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
I don't go for hunting.
.^ Nouveau Republican poseurs like this macho actor and his liberal Republican friends just don't get it.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Then it was like 'Well why don't we just put it out and see if anyone likes it.
^ I'm a Republican, and I don't like Ann Coulter AT ALL! Her tone is shrill, and she's just plain mean.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Then they wonder why they're facing a backlash when they go around trying to opress ("convert") everyone unfortunate enough to cross their little crusading paths.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
Then that would be fine."
[153] Upon the election of
Barack Obama, Eastwood stated "Obama is my president now and I am going to be wishing him the very best because it is what is best for all of us."
[154]
Relationships
.^ November 19th, 2009 1:14 pm ET I love Clint Eastwood, but why must every generation, when they reach his age, complain that the world has lost its way and is now filled with silly youngsters?- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ November 18th, 2009 2:36 pm ET Oh please....this is the same Clint Eastwood that's had 7 kids by 6 different women?- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
[155] .^ When I showed up in South Africa this spring, Eastwood was several days ahead of the planned Invictus shooting schedule.
^ I for one am ready someone who will actually live up to that responsibility and let the political hyena's like Limbaugh or Hillary comsume each other.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ So loathed were the Springboks that those few blacks who showed up for matches rooted loudly for the other side.
[155] .^ Through the many years we have watch him entertain us one thing can be said about him, Clint Eastwood is a presents!- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood has always been very fitness conscious and has worked out heavily many hours a week with weights and other training methods throughout his life.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ So Do what is necessary to hang around for us to enjoy you for many more years to come.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[155] He also had an affair with French actress
Catherine Deneuve, while in Paris in the mid 1960s.
[156] Biographer Patrick McGilligan and friend Paul Lippman have claimed that Eastwood was particularly sexually active and promiscuous in the 1970s and that he used his apartment close to the
Hog's Breath Inn which he purchased in Carmel in the early 1970s to meet young ladies for "nooners" and "five in the afternooners".
[157] According to Lippman, "Eastwood seemed to get a bang out of this kinkier side to himself and rarely concealed it, often gloated about it".
[157]
Maggie Johnson
Eastwood married swimsuit model Maggie Johnson on December 19, 1953, six months after they met on a
blind date.
[155] .^ Eastwood only appears at all when Costner suggested he was a perfect fit for old Texas Ranger on his trail, and the director had originally wanted Denzel Washington.
[155] After she recovered, he changed his mind, and Johnson became pregnant after fourteen years of marriage.
[155] .^ The Rookie (1990) C- Clint Eastwood was born on May 30, 1930 to Clinton and Ruth Eastwood and spent many of his young years on the move.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "Say what you will, but step back and look at where this Country was before they [Baby Boomers]came around - take a look at where things stood.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Say what you will, but step back and look at where this Country was before they came around - take a look at where things stood.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[155] .^ And if Invictus happens to collect a couple of Oscars next year, which is highly probable, it would not be because Eastwood had intended it, or even that he hoped for it, but that they would be richly deserved.
^ Eastwood and Swank in Million Dollar Baby That following year Eastwood stuck Oscar gold again with the drama Million Dollar Baby (2004) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[155] Their divorce, however, was not finalized until May 1984.
[155]Roxanne Tunis
.^ Eastwood as Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide" During his stint on “Rawhide” Eastwood was contacted by a man named Sergio Leone.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[155] .^ I would have thought Eastwood would support Ron Paul.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And if Invictus happens to collect a couple of Oscars next year, which is highly probable, it would not be because Eastwood had intended it, or even that he hoped for it, but that they would be richly deserved.
^ In the end, they would all support open borders, amnesty, the North American Union & Amero (to displace the rapidly devaluing dollar).- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[155] .^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (I'm 50) I hope there are no reporters from the National Enquirer print a story about me.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Even if you loved ABSOLUTE POWER, neither of those movies is worth seeing.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[155]
Sondra Locke
.^ The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 47.- Clint Eastwood - Movies 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC filmsandtv.com [Source type: General]
^ Every Which Way But Loose (1978, JAMES FARGO) "It was not quite the thing people were expecting," laughs Eastwood knowingly.
^ He was in Joe Kidd and Any Which Way You Can, is listed as 6'4, and seemed a literal hair taller than Eastwood.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Locke became pregnant by Eastwood twice, and had two
abortions and a
tubal ligation.
[158] .^ Eastwood return to what made him star as he dusted off the .44 Magnum and brought Dirty Harry Callahan back for a fourth time in Sudden Impact .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[159] Locke and Eastwood finally resolved the dispute with a non-public settlement in 1999.
[155][160]
Jacelyn Reeves
During his cohabitation with Locke, Eastwood had an affair with
flight attendant Jacklyn Reeves, with whom he had a son, Scott, and a daughter, Kathryn.
[155] The fact that Scott and Kathryn Reeves were the actor's children was not publicly known until a Carmel reporter revealed the information in the 1990s.
[155] .^ Mr Eastwood you and all the great actors have a place in this world and no one will ever come close to you all.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I agree with those who say actors should keep their mouths shut in general, although eastwood is a mayor now so fair enough.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Mr Eastwood is not only an actor of superb skill, but has become one of the truly great directors.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[155]Frances Fisher
.^ There's little more exciting to a true film buff these days than the prospect of another Clint Eastwood film coming up.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Unfortunately Eastwood finished the 80s on a low note with a fifth and final sequel to Dirty Harry called The Dead Pool (1988) and the comedy Pink Cadillac (1989) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Its a nice little film and definitely departs from Eastwoods usual films up to that point.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[155] .^ Eastwood took another year off and then in 1999 returned the thriller True Crime which featured an innocent man on death row.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Eastwood was back with Don Siegel again, indeed he had requested him, but this was opposite the grizzled machismo they usually dealt in.
^ Eastwood holds his Oscars for Unforgiven Eastwood followed this with the Wolfgang Peterson directed CIA thriller In the Line of Fire (1993) and the self directed drama A Perfect World (1993) .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Dina Ruiz
Eastwood with wife
Dina in 2007
Eastwood married anchorwoman
Dina Ruiz on March 31, 1996, in Las Vegas when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the
Shadow Creek Golf Course.
[161] She is 35 years his junior. Kyle Eastwood served best man. The couple's daughter, Morgan Eastwood, was born on December 12, 1996.
.^ Now there's a better man than I am.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The world and its workings are more complex than that.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ What we have now is ZILCH. The Bush-McCain-Kennedy (ugh) plan was not perfect, but it was better than JACK SQUAT which IS what we've got now.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ As a result here, people now don't have to work as hard as generations before, and we've believed the hype that it's all about ourselves.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Now that we've got that out of the way, let's do something constructive, we've identified the problem, let's take steps to fix it.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And even if you do, you must only have known him for say, the past 5-10 years, which he could clearly be down to 6'4.5" by now at his age, but certainly 6'6" in his prime.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Eastwood also looked shorter than 6' Arnold Schwarzenegger recently and 5'11" Brad Pitt(who may have worn lifts, but his shoes didn't look ridiculous).- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Interesting.Does anybody know how much taller Eastwood was than Morgan Freeman in 1992 in the Unforgiven?- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They ALL yak about God, then go out and KILL. .- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
But it's fun.
.^ I think that you have been a great Actor & Director and you don't have to prove nothing more to no one, not even yourself.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Shame on anyone who thinks that we should quit everything at a certain age.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It's like people think you should look perfect at that age.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ It started with families and spread out from there.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I think she would have been just as big a name in that era than, the same as Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis and Ingrid Birdman."
^ If God was out there, I think he would have done something about that already.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ We have become accustomed to a very good lifestyle and now take it for granted.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ People now-a-days take the easy way out and are lackadaisical with their work ethic and education.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
[162]
Leisure
The Hog's Breath Inn in Carmel, once owned for many years by Eastwood
.^ So Eastwood decided to take matters into his own hands and run for Mayor of Carmel, California.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The invitation-only club reportedly has around 300 members and a joining price of $500,000. He is also an investor of the world-famous
Pebble Beach Golf Links.
[164] He loves to play golf and donates his time every year to charitable causes at major tournaments.
. Eastwood is also the owner of the Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant,
[165] located in
Carmel-by-the-Sea.
^ You are WRONG. Heightcritique says on 29/Dec/09 Clint Eastwood was in the George Lopez show December 2009 (just a few days ago).- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Danimal says on 29/Dec/09 Heightcritique says on 29/Dec/09 Clint Eastwood was in the George Lopez show December 2009 (just a few days ago).- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If you have ever been to his Mission Ranch in Carmel and followed his career you'd know that he is not supportive of far right or left agendas.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
Eastwood is an
audiophile, known for his love of
jazz. He owns an extensive collection of
LPs which he plays on a Rockport
turntable. His interest in music was passed on to his son Kyle, now a jazz musician.
.^ I don't care who Eastwood, my favorite actor, or Oprah support, they all should keep their mouths shut.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Song("Why Should I Care") .- Clint Eastwood Filmography - InBaseline 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC www.inbaseline.com [Source type: General]
^ I find it amusing that people are compaining about Clint Eastwood being a liberal and wondering why he would care about the Republicans.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[166].^ November 18th, 2009 5:57 pm ET I agree fully with what Clint Eastwood says, I don't know where this is all going to end.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I don't want my brain saying USMC and the body saying Go Fish.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Nouveau Republican poseurs like this macho actor and his liberal Republican friends just don't get it.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Then it was like 'Well why don't we just put it out and see if anyone likes it.
^ I'm a Republican, and I don't like Ann Coulter AT ALL! Her tone is shrill, and she's just plain mean.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Then they wonder why they're facing a backlash when they go around trying to opress ("convert") everyone unfortunate enough to cross their little crusading paths.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
Then that would be fine."
[167]
.^ By the way if some of out national airline pilots take catnaps (while flying) what's wrong with Clint closing his eyes occasionally while he is on his own set?- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[citation needed]
Image and popularity
Filmography
Awards and honors
.^ (Their two previous collaborations, “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby,” both won best picture Oscars.
^ Clint Eastwood is great actor and director.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1974 Eastwood team with then unknown writer/director Michael Cimino for a film called Thunderbolt & Lightfoot .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Knew he'd be the BEST: actor/producer/director…all around iconic, handsome, sexy and fascinating actor and man.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I have yet to see a few of his directed films but of the ones I’ve seen I rank them like this: 1.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits,” the Academy Award winning actor and director told the magazine.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ EDITED TO ADD: I'd also say that Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby are the only films from the last fifteen years to deserve their Best Picture wins.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (Their two previous collaborations, “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby,” both won best picture Oscars.
^ The film took home Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Eastwood's third directing nod.
.^ It received wide spread critical praise and received Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor (Penn), Best Supporting Actor (Robbins), Best Supporting Actress (Gay Harden), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He's the best director I know," Freeman says of the filmmaker who gave him a plum role in "Unforgiven" and an Academy Award-winning part in "Million Dollar Baby."
^ The film earned him an Oscar for best director; it also won the best picture award.
.^ It didn't feel, well, very Clintish, and he wasn't going to be in it - Sean Penn (who one Best Actor for his performance as a local hoodlum), Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins were the three friends who share a painful past, which echoes into the present.
^ Their give-and-take reflects the camaraderie that Eastwood, 79, and Freeman, 72, captured on screen as hired mercenaries in 1992's Western "Unforgiven" and as ringside pals in 2004's boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby."
^ He's the best director I know," Freeman says of the filmmaker who gave him a plum role in "Unforgiven" and an Academy Award-winning part in "Million Dollar Baby."
Clint Eastwood received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996 and received an honorary degree from AFI in 2009.
.^ In one picture Eastwood looked 5'11" and Pitt was two inches taller and then in the other one their height were reversed and pitt looked 5'11 and Eastwood 6'1.5-6'2"!!- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If you want to see an example of one of them just turn on the TV right now and listen to Sarah Palin display one of the characteristics of a sociopath, pathological lying.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Plus, most "believers", "God freaks" voted for Bush (the one who said he represented God's choice) and look where we are now, in the America you do not seem to enjoy...- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The film received Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor (Eastwood), Best Supporting Actor (Freeman), Best Actress (Swank), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture and Best Editing.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "Honoree" (Lifetime Achievement Award) .- Clint Eastwood Filmography - InBaseline 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC www.inbaseline.com [Source type: General]
^ "Honoree" (Irving G Thalberg Award) .- Clint Eastwood Filmography - InBaseline 10 February 2010 14:32 UTC www.inbaseline.com [Source type: General]
[168] .^ The film received Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor (Eastwood), Best Supporting Actor (Freeman), Best Actress (Swank), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture and Best Editing.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ EDITED TO ADD: I'd also say that Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby are the only films from the last fifteen years to deserve their Best Picture wins.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Flags was released in October 2006 to good reviews but it failed to capture everyone like his previous two films ( Mystic River & Million Dollar Baby ) did.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "It turned out to be this PG kind of movie," he says approvingly, "one that could reach down to an audience I hadn't been appealing to with the tougher pictures."
^ Eastwood has always been very fitness conscious and has worked out heavily many hours a week with weights and other training methods throughout his life.- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "Invictus" marks the first time Eastwood worked with Freeman as a director only, not as a co-star, too.
.^ Flags of Our Fathers (2006) B 16.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The men raise the American flag on Iwo Jima in Flags of our Fathers Eastwoods career has been alive and well for over 50 years and shows no signs of slowing down.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Shortly into 2006 it was announced that Eastwood would also make a film to coincide with Flags of our Fathers .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[169]
.^ Eastwood also looked shorter than 6' Arnold Schwarzenegger recently and 5'11" Brad Pitt(who may have worn lifts, but his shoes didn't look ridiculous).- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Shortly into 2006 it was announced that Eastwood would also make a film to coincide with Flags of our Fathers .- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ So Eastwood decided to take matters into his own hands and run for Mayor of Carmel, California.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The film took home Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Eastwood's third directing nod.
^ It remains one of Eastwoods best films and also features some of the strongest supporting performances in any Eastwood film.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Clint Eastwood is by far the best actor, director, writer and producer as well as composer that I have had the pleasure watching.- Clint Eastwood ‘Struggles to Stay Awake on Movie Set’ | Showbiz Spy - celebrity news, rumors & gossip 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.showbizspy.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[172]
.^ You are WRONG. Heightcritique says on 29/Dec/09 Clint Eastwood was in the George Lopez show December 2009 (just a few days ago).- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Danimal says on 29/Dec/09 Heightcritique says on 29/Dec/09 Clint Eastwood was in the George Lopez show December 2009 (just a few days ago).- Clint Eastwood Height - how tall 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.celebheights.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[173]
.^ November 18th, 2009 2:13 pm ET I'm so in agreement with Clint.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
^ UPDATE Rawhide 1959-1965 HEAD EM UP! ► October (2) Early Film and TV roles A visit from an old friend: Dave Turner ► November (8) Clint Made French Legion of Honor Commander Invictus 2009 UPDATE The Beguiled: The Storyteller 1971 Eastwood Interviewed marks the Archive’s big 100 Clint and Morgan attend 2009 GQ Men of the Year Pa...
^ November 18th, 2009 12:31 pm ET Clint is right.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
He was previously made French Legion of Honor Knight in 2007.
[174]
Academy Awards
Won
- 1992 Best Director – Unforgiven
- 1992 Best Picture – Unforgiven
- 1994 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- 2004 Best Director – Million Dollar Baby
- 2004 Best Picture – Million Dollar Baby
Nominated
Discography
Eastwood is also a musician, pianist and composer.
.^ Eastwood more then made up for that film a year later with Mystic River in 2003.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The film, like Mystic River the year before, received massive critical praise and had a big box office success.- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ With such movies as "Mystic River," "Letters From Iwo Jima" and "Gran Torino," he has consolidated a reputation as one of the finest directors working today.
Albums
| Year |
Album |
| 1963 |
Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites |
Singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart Positions |
Album |
| US Country |
US |
CAN Country |
| 1961 |
"Known Girl" |
— |
— |
— |
singles only |
| 1962 |
"Rowdy" |
— |
— |
— |
| "For You, For Me, For Evermore" |
— |
— |
— |
| 1980 |
"Bar Room Buddies" (with Merle Haggard) |
1 |
— |
1 |
Bronco Billy Soundtrack |
| "Beers to You" (with Ray Charles) |
55 |
— |
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singles only |
| 1981 |
"Cowboy in a Three Piece Suit" |
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| 1984 |
"Make My Day" (with T. G. Sheppard) |
12 |
62 |
11 |
Slow Burn (T. G. Sheppard album) |
| 2009 |
"Gran Torino" (as Walt Kowalski with Jamie Cullum) |
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single only |
Notes
- ^ Fischer, Lucy, Landy, Marcia, Smith, Paul (2004) Stars: The Film Reader:Action Movie Hysteria of Eastwood Bound, p.43, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-27893-7.
- ^ guardian.co.uk Gentle man Clint, November 2, 2008.
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.22
- ^ Smith, Paul (1993). Clint Eastwood a Cultural Production. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816619581.
- ^ adherents.com The Religious Affiliation of actor/director Clint Eastwood.
- ^ CBS Evening News interview, February 6, 2005.
- ^ dougiethompson.com Clint Eastwood - The Sexual Cowboy
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- ^ a b c McGilligan (1999), p.63
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- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.81
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- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.93
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.95
- ^ Reader's Digest Australia: RD Face to Face: Clint Eastwood.
- ^ a b c d McGilligan (1999), p.110
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- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.126
- ^ Relive the thrilling days of the Old West in film | TahoeBonanza.com.
- ^ A Fistful of Dollars.
- ^ Richard Harrison interview.
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- ^ (Italian only) http://www.cinemadelsilenzio.it/index.php?mod=interview&id=17
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.133
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- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.148
- ^ Frayling, Christopher (2000). Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571164382.
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.150
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.151
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- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.153
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- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.160
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- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.173
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- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.182
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- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.185
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.186
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- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.196
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.192
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- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.194
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.195
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.205
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.209
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.210
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.211
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.218
- ^ Greenspun, Rogerurl=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE6D71F31E73BBC4851DFB1668389669EDE+(July 20, 1972). "Joe Kidd (1972)". The New York Times.
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p. 219
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.221
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- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.230
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.231
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.233
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- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.236
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.239
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.240
- ^ a b c d McGilligan (1999), p.241
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.244
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.247
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.253
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.256
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.257
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.258
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.261
- ^ a b c McGilligan (1999), p.264
- ^ Ebert, Roger (January 1, 1976). "The Outlaw Josey Wales". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19760101/REVIEWS/601010306/1023. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.266
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.267
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.268
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.273
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.274
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.275
- ^ a b c McGilligan (1999), p.278
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.277
- ^ McGilligan (1999), p.279
- ^ Ebert, Roger (January 1, 1977). "The Gauntlet". Chicago Sun Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19770101/REVIEWS/701010304/1023. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.302
- ^ "A Perfect World - A Film Review" by James Berardinelli
- ^ The New York Times Reviews/Film: A Perfect World, Page 2
- ^ Washington Post - 'A Perfect World' by Hal Hinson
- ^ http://www.cinemarealm.com/best-of-cinema/cahiers-du-cinema-best-movies-1951-2006/
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bridgesofmadisoncounty.htm
- ^ http://the-numbers.com/movies/2004/MDBAB.php
- ^ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/reviews/la-et-torino12-2008dec12,0,2314630.story
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/grantorino?q=gran%20torino
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=grantorino.htm
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3507352/Clint-Eastwood-to-retire-from-acting.html
- ^ Keller, Bill. - "Entering the Scrum". - The New York Times Book Review. August 17, 2008.
- ^ University of the Pacific Media Relations (2007-03-14). "Clint Eastwood and Other Illustrious Artists Honor Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck". University of the Pacific. http://web.pacific.edu/x6894.xml. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
- ^ Staff (October 22, 2009). "Clint Eastwood : A France Télévisions pour tourner une séquence de son film!" (in French). Premiere (Groupe Lagardere). Retrieved on November 17, 2009.
- ^ Clover, Jenny (November 4, 2009). "Clint Eastwood rides into Walworth". South London Today. Retrieved on November 9, 2009.
- ^ Treadway, Chris (January 27, 2010). "Hollywood comes to Crockett to film Eastwood-Damon flick". Contra Costa Times (Bay Area News Group). Retrieved on January 28, 2010.
- ^ Fernandez, Jay A. (January 6, 2009). "Q&A: Peter Morgan". The Hollywood Reporter (Nielsen Business Media). Retrieved on January 7, 2009.
- ^ a b c McGilligan (1999), p.114
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.115
- ^ John Hiscock (2008-11-13). "Clint Eastwood on Changeling: Angelina Jolie 'a fine actress hampered by beauty'". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2008/11/13/bfclint113.xml. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
- ^ "Filmography as composer". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/#composer. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
- ^ a b http://www.playboy.com/articles/clint-eastwood-1974-playboy-interview/index.html
- ^ Clint Eastwood talks to Jeff Dawson.
- ^ http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Clint_Eastwood.php
- ^ http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030526/cooper
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/clint_eastwood/biography.php
- ^ http://www.herecomesmongo.com/ae/eastwood.htm
- ^ http://www.playboy.com/articles/clint-eastwood-1997-playboy%20interview/index.html
- ^ a b McCafferty, Dennis (January 25, 2004). "American Icon series – Clint Eastwood". USA Weekend. http://www.usaweekend.com/04_issues/040125/040125clint_eastwood.html. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ Eastwood website.
- ^ "Governor Schwarzenegger Appointments to the State Park and Recreation Commission" - California State Park and Recreation Commission. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ Press Release: "Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments to the State Park and Recreation Commission" - Office of the Governor - State of California, March 4, 2004. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ a b Young, Samantha. - "Schwarzenegger removes his brother-in-law and Clint Eastwood from Calif. parks panel". - Associated Press. - (San Diego Union-Tribune). March 20, 2008. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ Group wants probe into governor's removal of Eastwood, Shriver". - San Diego Union-Tribune. March 22, 2008. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ a b Patashnik, Josh. - "It's Not a Tumor". - The New Republic. April 23, 2008. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ a b "California Rejects Superhighway in State Park". - Natural Resources Defense Council. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ Press Release: "Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Appointments" - Office of the Governor, State of California, May 23, 2008. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ "Schwarzenegger names replacements for parks panel". - Associated Press. (c/o Yahoo! News). May 23, 2008. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ Press Release: "Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints DeVito, Duke, Eastwood, Werner and Zanuck to Film Commission". Office of the Governor, State of California, April 15, 2004. Retrieved: 2008-05-28.
- ^ Aguilar, Lou (2008-07-18). "Real Men Vote for McCain". National Review. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTkyNTJkNDY1ZDdjMzBjNTA0NmJlMDNhZWQ2ZmZiOWY=#more. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
- ^ [Boucher, Geoff. "Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Dirty Harry." Los Angeles Times June 1, 2008]http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-clint1-video-2008jun01,0,1799539.story
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- ^ McGillagan (1999), p.151
- ^ a b McGilligan (1999), p.202
- ^ http://www.nndb.com/people/790/000024718/
- ^ Appeals Court Revives Locke's Fraud Suit
- ^ Locke And Warner Bros. Reach Settlement
- ^ Susan Marg (2004). Las Vegas Weddings: A Brief History, Celebrity Gossip, Everything Elvis, and the Complete Chapel Guide. Harper & Brothers. pp. 127. ISBN 978-0060726195.
- ^ Hiscock, John (December 14, 2008). "Go ahead, offer Clint Eastwood another good script". The Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Movies/article/553153. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
- ^ http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/sections/life/life/article_628247.php
- ^ California rejects Clint Eastwood's Monterey golf course - Travel - LATimes.com.
- ^ http://www.missionranchcarmel.com/
- ^ Krall, Eastwood Team For 'crime' | Entertainment & Arts > Music Industry from AllBusiness.com.
- ^ Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Dirty Harry - Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- ^ Eastwood tapped first recipient of MPAA's Valenti honor news.yahoo.com.
- ^ Eastwood Receives French Honor news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Clint Eastwood Receives Berklee Degree at Monterey Jazz Festival (news release)". Berklee College of Music. 2007-09-24. http://www.berklee.edu/news/2007/09/0924.html. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- ^ "NBR names 'Slumdog' best of year". Variety. 12/4/2008. http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117996815.html?nav=news&categoryid=1983&cs=1.
- ^ "Japan honors Clint Eastwood in spring decorations," Japan Today. April 29, 2008.
- ^ Eastwood receives French honour BBC
Bibliography
- McGilligan, Patrick (1999). Clint: The Life and Legend. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-638354-8..
- Schickel, Richard (1996). Clint Eastwood: A Biography. Knopf. ISBN 9780679429746, ISBN 0-679-42974-3.
Further reading
- Engel, Leonard (2007). .^ The film received Academy Award nominations for: Best Actor (Eastwood), Best Supporting Actor (Freeman), Best Actress (Swank), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture and Best Editing.
- The CLINT EASTWOOD Appreciation Thread - CHUD Forums 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Also why are the political views of Ann Coulter and Clint Eastwood news?- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ However, Bird was a personal project, and indicated that the life of Clint Eastwood the director was entering a second, if not a third, act.
University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874809008, ISBN 0-87480-900-2.
- Johnstone, Iain (2007). .^ No figure in American film has had quite the third act of Clint Eastwood.
^ I liked the Dirty Hairy and Man-With-No-Name version of Eastwood....way back before he totally sold-out to the degenerate Hollywood "in-crowd" in order to win their approval.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ November 18th, 2009 1:14 pm ET I named my only son born in 1995 after Clint Eastwood.- Clint Eastwood: Our country is in a morbid mood – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC marquee.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]
Plexus Publishing, Limited. ISBN 9780859653879, ISBN 0-85965-387-0.
- McGilligan, Patrick (1999). Clint: The Life and Legend. Perseus Books Group. ISBN 9780786708437, ISBN 0-7867-0843-3.
- Schickel, Richard (1996). Clint Eastwood: A Biography. Knopf. ISBN 9780679429746, ISBN 0-679-42974-3.
- Thompson, Douglas (2005). .^ More Tags: Clint Eastwood , Gran Torino , Gran Torino Trailer , Million Dollar Baby , Trailer .
- Clint Eastwood: Movies: UGO 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC movieblog.ugo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Well I definitely love Clint Eastwood and his attitudes and if he thinks McClain is it then so be it, Eastwood is a very smart man, and cute too.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Clint Eastwood is a moral degenerate, a conservative who sold out to the Hollykook crowd, and an old man to boot.- Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic': The Swamp 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
John Blake. ISBN 1857825721, ISBN 978-1-85782-572-5.
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