Posted on 11/30/2001 3:20:31 PM PST by areafiftyone
Edited on 04/12/2004 2:09:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Gov. Gray Davis likely has made Clint Eastwood's day. Davis has appointed the actor to the State Park and Recreation Commission, aides announced Friday. Eastwood, also a golf course owner who served as mayor of Carmel from 1986 to 1988, has long been an activist for environmental and other issues.
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"Go ahead, Yogi, make my day."Hey, CCC!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
(I hope that you are feeling better.)
Here Are Some Neat Sound Files
YOGI 1 Yogi says, "I'm smarter than the average bear, hee hee hee hhee!"
YOGI 2 Yogi says, "You're almost smarter than the average bear."
YOGI 3 Yogi says, "Hey, that's a good idea, I'll do it."
YOGI THEME The Yogi Bear Theme Song
BOO BOO Boo Boo says "I don't think the Ranger's gonna like this, Yogi."
(If you want OFF - or ON - my (active) "Hugh Hewitt PING list" - please let me know.)
In In the Line of Fire, he is an ex-drunk Secret Service Agent trying desperately to atone for having failed to save JFK. He pants trying to run alongside limousines, gets horribly sick from standing out in the rain, and otherwise generally humiliates himself on the way to finally outwitting the villain. At one point, he confronts a CIA agent who has been stonewalling him on important information. When the staunch republican Eastwood makes a crack about the CIA's alleged involvement in cocaine smuggling, one of the most damaging information leaks of the Reagan-Bush years, it is a jarring moment. He's acting, of course, and we understand that, but usually it's clear that Eastwood always plays Eastwood. Despite the dissonance of the moment, what seems even weirder is that he wins the girl, played by Renee Russo, despite his ridiculous chauvinism. At one point, this subplot reveals an affinity with the politics of the "old" Eastwood with an important political admission, or perhaps proud assertion: "I'm a heterosexual male piano player over the age of fifty. There's not many of us, but we have a strong lobby."
LOL! Thanks for the post and the pingaroo!. . .
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