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Birthday shoutout: Clint Eastwood
Newport News, Va., Daily Press ^ | May 31, 2013

Posted on 05/31/2013 5:34:25 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Clint Eastwood, whose cinematic legacy can match anyone in Hollywood history, turns 83 years old today.

He first drew attention as Rowdy Yates on TV's "Rawhide," but he became a star on the big screen at age 34 when he created The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's great Western "A Fistful of Dollars." He would reprise the character for Leone in "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

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To: ConservativeStatement

“Where’s our horses?”

Sheriff: “What do you think you’ve been eating the last 6 months?”


21 posted on 05/31/2013 6:41:18 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: freekitty

May Clint age like a fine vintage wine. Hope many people help to “make his day” a memorable one. Happy Birthday.


22 posted on 05/31/2013 6:42:39 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Play Misty for Me” was great and made me wish I was older so that I could have experienced driving with the top down on the coastal highway when California was still free


23 posted on 05/31/2013 6:45:36 PM PDT by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Happy Birthday,Clint.

And thank You for giving us the joy of displaying empty chairs. It was a time of solidarity combined with humor that i remember fondly.

The election was fixed. It wasn’t your fault. You did good.


24 posted on 05/31/2013 6:54:29 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: ConservativeStatement

One of the best movies - which aired recently, “Firefox” .. has been saved on my DVR for later enjoyment.

While I love the movie, but I have always thought it was the Russians who were always trying to steal our stuff instead of the other way around. But, I understand the left is confident that the Russians are smarter than we are .. which is a crock; thus their pemise is that we had to steal the Russians stuff.

So Happy Birthday Clint .. I’ll enjoy your movie for a long time.


25 posted on 05/31/2013 7:04:23 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth" (in spite of BO))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Still love to watch “Rawhide” reruns. Eastwood also had a tiny bit part in one of my favorite ‘monster movies’ when I was a kid. He was a pilot who fired on the giant “Tarantula” (1955) headed toward the desert town, in the film’s finale.

Eastwood admittedly lost some of his standing with me when he embraced fag-marriage. Enough of a disqualifier to keep him from my top-rank list of cowboy stars. Ya just automatically lose “cowboy points” if you give a thumbs-up to such perverted nonsense. It’s the code of the west, dagnabit.


26 posted on 05/31/2013 7:05:25 PM PDT by greene66
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To: ConservativeStatement

Eastwood’s also a musician, and when he was young, he thought he couldn’t be an actor because he is an introvert.


27 posted on 05/31/2013 7:14:49 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Happy Birthday Clint. Good health and good humor for many more.


28 posted on 05/31/2013 7:18:05 PM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It is one of the great ironies of film making that Eastwood did not complete Leone’s tetralogy of westerns. Had he starred in the ill-fated “A Fistful of Dynamite”, aka “Duck, You Sucker”, he might have redeemed it to audiences and critics.

And though James Coburn gave perhaps the best performance of his career opposite Rod Steiger, perhaps Eastwood would have had his career stymied, thereafter typecast for roles in a no longer popular genre.


29 posted on 05/31/2013 7:20:20 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: dynachrome

This is among my favorite movie scenes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgxTwmjWYSs

“Get Three Coffins Ready...”


30 posted on 05/31/2013 7:22:09 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Yeah. LOL


31 posted on 05/31/2013 7:27:25 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: greene66

“Tarantula” (1955) headed toward the desert town, in the film’s finale

May I also recommend watching the “Revenge of the Creature” (from the Black Lagoon) Eastwood is in an uncredited role of a lab assistant. bad cinema! haha

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048554/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast

“Clint Eastwood ... Jennings (uncredited)”


32 posted on 05/31/2013 7:31:48 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: gorush

I am thankful Clinton Eastwood was born. He’s a good guy admist a bunch of evil weevils. He’s a brave and true human being and American.

God bless and protect you, Mr. Eastwood and happy birthday!


33 posted on 05/31/2013 7:45:33 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: ConservativeStatement

Happy Birthday Blondie.


34 posted on 05/31/2013 8:40:27 PM PDT by Brimack34 (Good Bad and Ugly)
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To: wally_bert

I like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.


35 posted on 05/31/2013 10:08:39 PM PDT by Argus
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To: ConservativeStatement

While I like all of Clint’s movies, I just finished watching one of his latest, “Trouble with the curve”, old as the hills but still a he** of an actor. Kelly’s heroes and Two Mules for Sister Sara are just about my favorites, but it is actually hard to pin down.


36 posted on 06/01/2013 12:22:35 AM PDT by calex59
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To: ConservativeStatement

Happy Birthday, Mr. Eastwood! We are neighbors in a tropical locale! Love you and your empty chair speech! Many happy healthy returns!


37 posted on 06/01/2013 12:27:03 AM PDT by Yaelle
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“Trouble with the curve”

I read an interview of his. He said his production team has been together forever, and they treat each other like family. He had said he had done his last film (Gran Tornio?). But then this associate director on his team was doing the baseball one, and asked Clint to play in it. Clint changed his mind about the “last film thing” as this young guy was really good, and part of the “family”, and he figured it would have a better chance at success with his name on the sign.

I think “Outlaw Josey Wales” and “Unforgiven” are my favorites - although I’m sure I’m missing some. They are all fun, and some are really great. The last few months on AMC on Saturday mornings they do hours and hours of “Rawhide”.


38 posted on 06/01/2013 12:32:34 AM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: 21twelve

Funny thing though. after Flemming drowned in S A, they made Rowdy Trail Boss on Rawhide, it was cancelled the next season. But he went on to bigger and greater things.


39 posted on 06/01/2013 1:18:51 AM PDT by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Clint is SCV...like me


40 posted on 06/01/2013 2:01:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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