Posted on 06/15/2022 9:50:15 AM PDT by ammodotcom
There are few American actors more iconic than Clint Eastwood. His iconic "Man With No Name" character is the face of the American West for a generation of men. Dirty Harry is perhaps the most recognizable fictional police officer in American history. And the man who played them? Well, he spent some time as a small-town mayor in California.
Remember him debating the empty chair (Obozo) in 2012?
I meant the next one.
I count it as Clint’s first movie.
>>He was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, but this was a largely ceremonial position coming with a “lavish” $200 a month salary,
I’m sorry, but this shows a lack of understanding of how local government often works. Much local government has a weak mayor / strong city manager setup. The mayor often votes with the council, sets most of the agenda for meetings, appoints commission and board members to be approved by the council, etc. It is a chairman of the board position, essentially. It is generally not full time.
Meanwhile, the day-day work gets done by a full time professional city manager who serves at the will of the council (and thus those who elected them). He gets fired if a majority of the council doesn’t like his work. He hires and fires department heads, etc. Large city contracts have to be approved by council. This is akin to a CEO of a company.
The local mayor where I’m sitting makes a whopping $1500 a month, this in a well-off Atlanta suburb with a 50k population and a $40 million budget. The city manager is more like $200k.
I think he just had a birthday, he’s in his 90s, and it’s a relatively slow news day.
I love Eastwood’s Spaghetti Westerns!! Second only to anything with John Wayne in it. No doubt Clint Eastwood is the king of one-liners.
I absolutely loved that. It was pretty apparent though that when he started, the crowd was confused. lol
One of my all time favorites is ‘Absolute Power’.
I thought Clint also played the occasional next-door neighbor to Allen Young (Wilbur Post) in “Mr. Ed”. I think he played himself.
“Clint’s singing voice is not too bad.”
He’s very musical. Played the soundtrack for Bridges Of Madison County, IIRC.
Yes - And "hokey" doesn't begin to describe the storylines.
Regards,
Chief Dan George almost stole that movie.
A friend of mine is Village President (same position as a Mayor) in a town of around 33,000 in northeast Illinois. They have the type of system you describe (city manager runs the day to day, Village President is head of the Village Board).
He makes a whopping $6K/year for the job plus something like $50 for each village board meeting he attends.
He works constantly in this role in addition to his day job.
100% agree
I thought Gran Torino won some award?
I really liked Absolute Power as well.
No “Coogans Bluff”? One of my favorites.
I’ve been watching him since he dropped a load of napalm on a TARANTULA (uncredited.)
Only movie I thought had an unbelievable scene in it was SUDDEN IMPACT in which two rednecks, armed with shotguns have kidnapped his girl and are out on a pier.
He grabs his .44 Auto-Mag pistol and goes after them. There he stands. Perfectly backlit and a perfect target for their shotguns.
The two rednecks armed with shotguns just stand there and look at him with their mouths open while he blasts them both.
Random bad guy: talk talk talk...
Tuco: (bang)
Tuco: if your are going to shoot, shoot don’t talk.
One of my favorite spaghetti western..baawww baaw baw.
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