Posted on 02/03/2010 6:56:08 PM PST by pissant
As hard as it is to imagine today, Clint Eastwood was once a little boy. And a pretty unexceptional one at that. 'I always joke that back then my teachers were like, “Mrs Eastwood, your son, he is just slow”,’ Eastwood tells me.
The actor, writer and film-maker will be 80 in May, yet the man sitting in this Los Angeles hotel room could easily pass for a young-looking 65.
His crinkly skin is slightly leathery in texture − courtesy of a life spent on film locations and golf courses − but his blue eyes are bright and, at a still-lean six-feet-four, he remains an imposing presence.
This is the fourth time I’ve met him and he talks as quietly and succinctly as ever, delivering short pithy lines with his clipped, gravely tones. He’s no great shakes as an anecdotalist and can be a little taciturn at times. But slow? Never.
Eastwood doesn’t smoke ('only in movies’), has never done drugs ('they just weren’t my thing’), and attributes his rude health to a twice-daily meditation routine and a diet that scrimps on red meat.
He was recently named one of the world’s most stylish men by the American edition of GQ, yet today Eastwood’s cool is seriously compromised by a slightly fuddy-duddy windcheater.
'I guess I’m still a blue-collar guy,’ he laughs. Joking aside, Eastwood is justifiably proud of his working-class upbringing ('I have worked ever since I was 13’) and an underdog story easily as compelling as any from his films.
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“And if I was a half as ugly as you, Sergeant Major, I’d be a poster boy for a prophylactic.” - Heartbreak Ridge
“The Outlaw Josey Wales is my all-time favorite.”
How many times did that poor dog get spit on?
Since you live in Calif, you ought to go check out Mono Lake sometime where they filmed High Plains Drifter (just a few miles north of me). Joe Kidd was filmed six miles from my house.
That movie sold a LOT of model 29's. :-)
Clint Eastwood is truly a National Treasure, in the tradition of John Wayne, and many others.
"Deservins got nothing to do with it."
He also previewed the psycho-chick movie in "Play Misty for Me." Fatal Attraction was an almost scene by scene ripoff.
And, I'll tell you exactly where Heath Ledger got the idea for his Joker. Scorpio from Dirty Harry. Watch the movie and check out Andrew Robinson's character, the way he moves, the psycho lies, and the rapid personality changes:
Yeah. Bet Colt wished he’d used a Python.
Right behind you, above the timberline west roughly of Bishop, about ten years ago they discovered two mummified corpses still strapped into their ultralight aircraft, both with broken legs. They were reported missing the previous year by their wives and some hikers found them. The authorities conjectured that they survived an emergency landing but were too injured to go for help and their cell phones were dead, so they froze to death.
Which is why God invented the Hollow Point Bullet.
“It’ll blow your head clean off”.
“Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do you?”
That piece of music is called
"The Ecstasy of Gold" by composer Ennio Morriconi.
80 is the new 60?
In the original Dirty Harry, they rented the 44 from a guy my Brother knew. He was involved in the production.
In the Movie, when Harry threw the gun down on the cement under the Large Cross, it was the real gun. The bluing got pretty messed up when he did that.
the oscars are nothing anymore. too political and I’m sure Clint Eastwood is bigger than that.
bttt
Yeah, it is rough country around here. Steve Fawcett was found near here a couple of years ago, as well as two mummified crew members from a WWII plane crash.
Gunny Highway
Very, very good points!!!
Made me vote for Reagan.
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