That's one way of looking at it. Then again, it could be an iconic performance that people will look back as the game-set-match...
Posted on 08/29/2012 9:17:37 PM PDT by Justaham
Clint Eastwood will be speaking at the Republican Convention in Tampa on Thursday according to Fox News. The network’s website is reporting that a GOP source confirmed “that Eastwood is indeed the mystery speaker”. Thursday night’s line-up has a “To Be Announced” speaker scheduled ahead of Senator Marco Rubio and GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney himself. Eastwood’s name was floated earlier this week as the speaker along with former VP nominee Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and even a hologram of former President Ronald Reagan. No stranger to politics, Eastwood served as the Mayor of Carmel, California from 1986 to 1988. He supported John McCain in 2008 and endorsed Mitt Romney earlier this month at a Sun Valley fundraiser. “Now more than ever do we need Mitt Romney, I’m going to be voting for him,” the Oscar winner said as the GOP nominee stood next to him on August 4. If Eastwood is really heading to Tampa to speak Thursday evening, he’s going to have to get going soon. Deadline has learned that as of Wednesday afternoon, the actor/director was still at his home in Carmel. Eastwood’s latest film, Trouble With The Curve comes out on September 21, 2012.
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That's one way of looking at it. Then again, it could be an iconic performance that people will look back as the game-set-match...
“Kelly’s Heroes”: That’s one of those “I watch it whenever I come across it” flicks.
Friggin’ LOVE that film!!!
She definitely would need a steady income if she chooses to pursue staying in the public eye.
Leni
Glove sews up the “Old Country Buffet” vote with the Clint speech...
Clint’s the f**king man!!!
Len Lesser played Uncle Leo on Seinfeld. He was indeed one of the bounty hunters.
He also played Sgt Bellamy in Kelly’s Heroes. He had a huge movie and TV career. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504335/
He died back in February 2011, 88 years old.
And then he should spit.
Good question.
The Incumbent Rule states that an Acceptable Challenger will take 80% of the Undecideds from a non-wartime President seeking re-election.
Eastwood is one of the most beloved and respected figures in America, not for any reason other than being a great actor/director, but there it is.
If any Undecided had any reservations about Mittens as an Acceptable Challenger, Eastwood's blessing could quite easily move Joe Six-pack off the dime and into the voting booth. Easily.
RE Kelly’s Heroes:
The German tank commander’s face when Clint shows him the gold bullion bar, and then the next scene with the 88mm blowing the doors open is priceless.
That actor that played the German was always typecast in movies as the Nazi superman. Karl Otto Alberty was his name. He had a prolific acting career too.
Not a big Donald Sutherland fa, but he played “Oddball” (”always with the negative waves Moriarty!”) really well.
Maybe Clint will be joined by a group of prominent entertainers who “will come out of the closet” to stand up for liberty and our country’s future...
You're kidding, right? The "Gen X folks" make hateful memes about him.
...”Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced all except four of his American films.
Clint Eastwood BUILT IT...
Better yet he spits on them after he kills them, at least the ones that face him. The ones who get scared and run (in groups) that he shoots in the back miss the spit treatment.
John Wayne wouldnt go near a part like that, and if he did it would not be worth watching. He always played the hero who could never really exist.
‘That actor that played the German was always typecast in movies as the Nazi superman. Karl Otto Alberty was his name. He had a prolific acting career too.”
I remember him from “The Great Escape”...another screen gem!!!
Yeah...I can leave Donny Sutherland too. Another anti-Vietman War flippo, IIRC.
Who’s Jorge Schwartz? I don’t get the reference.
RE John Wayne:
Always liked the guy. He loved the country, loved the idea and the ideals of it. I know some people have problems with “The Duke” but I don’t. Reminds me of my old man - tough, raw, and indomitable.
RE The Spit: He spit on that “mangy redbone hound”!!! Poor doggie!!!!
You know who else was good in that movie? Chief Dan George. He played a great part.
"As a matter of fact...I did do it all myself, punk!"
Sweet pistol!!!
RE German:
Once you get typecast into a role, it’s hard to break out of it.
Wolfgang Preiss was another one - they always had him playing Rommel or some other high-ranking German general. He was in The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Von Ryan’s Express, Is Paris Burning, The Train...basically, “The German General” each time.
James Mason played Rommel in “The Desert Fox”; he had that icy Teutonic character about him as well. Mason was delightfully evil in Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest”. An all around great actor.
“..and seein’ as how this is the .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow yer head CLEEEEEEEAAAN off...you have to ask yourself one question...”
Great line!!! That and “Go Ahead....Make My Day” became Instant Clint-isms.
He did nothing for me except two of his movies I laugh at because they are so bad,
Green Berets and that one where he plays a cowboy dad to two kids who get involved in bank robbery,
“I dont have a bigoted bone in my body” . And that phony Indian tracker friend LOL
You couldnt make movies that bad by accident,
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