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As the stars of Starsky and Hutch, Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul became international icons, their characters a byword for cool. And the veteran actors showed that they are still as suave today as in their 1970s heyday when they appeared at a special fan event in Venice Beach. Detective Dave Starsky's iconic 1976 Ford Gran Torino - who some might say was the real star of the show - still managed to turn plenty of heads.

"Let us look back at Samuel Whittemore. Samuel was an old man -- seventy-eight years old, to be exact -- on April 19, 1775. After many years of service bearing arms for the British Crown, surely he was too old to fight, and his wife even told him so. On that fateful morning, though, he gathered up his musket, two pistols, and a cavalry saber that he acquired from a French officer who "died suddenly" and took his place to meet the British Regulars in Menotomy."

The 'Gran Torino' gunman who opened fire on a group of mischievous teens in Brooklyn was hailed as a hero Monday... by the mother of an innocent bystander hit with shrapnel. Larisa Kaprovskaya told the New York Daily News that accused shooter Thomas Dunikowski, 30, was just trying to protect their neighbourhood when he used his rifle. Ms Kaprovskaya, 50, told the paper: 'He shot because he wants to protect us. I don't know what would have happened to us if he didn't try to protect us. I appreciate him'.

A former Marine who neighbors say obsessed over his University Park lawn is being held on $3 million bail, accused of gunning down a neighbor whose puppy urinated on the man's well-manicured grass. Charles J. Clements, 69, had won the south suburb's beautification and lawn upkeep award but also was known for threatening people who dared to set foot in his yard, neighbors said. Joshua Funches, a 23-year-old father of two, was walking his fox terrier Gucci in the 500 block of Landau Road on Sunday night when the dog lifted its leg and went on Clements' lawn, said Funches'...

Clint Eastwood and Minorities Mix Like Fire and Gasoline: Clint Eastwood is a man I can respect. A living movie legend, Clint Eastwood has directed dozens of classic movies and starred in many more films. For years he played the grizzled, nameless cowboy in the "Dollars" series and countless other Spaghetti Western shooters. He was also the titular hero of the "Dirty Harry" series. Today he continues to contribute to the movie industry by directing movies about flags and very expensive babies. So what does Clint do when old age has weathered his skin and bones? He knees Death in...

What are we to make of a movie that is named after a car? If it's The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or The Love Bug (both of 1968), Cadillac Man (1990) or, simply Cars (2006), we can expect comedy or romance or kiddie fantasy but nothing of serious purport. Back in 1989 Clint Eastwood starred in Pink Cadillac, supposedly a screwball comedy though I wouldn't know. Like an overwhelming majority of movie-goers, I didn't see it. Now Mr. Eastwood is back, this time as director as well as star, and he's got...

To my Conservative Friends: I have been receiving emails and phone calls over the past week from my Conservative and liberal friends alike saying to me - "Mike - You gotta see Gran Torino!!" So, in the middle of the snow storm on Saturday night, I trekked out to see the film I had heard so much about... The film is about a man named Walt Kowalski, a 70-something, cranky Korean War Vet who lives in a mid-west neighborhood that has been steadily changing to a Black/Asian community. Walt, living alone now after his wife's death, is one of the...

My wife and me have been anxiously waiting to see the movie since the trailers have been airing on TV. It looked to be a classic Clint movie and it was and even more. Clint plays his traditional moody character who despises most people and distributes justice in typical Clint fashion. It's set in Detroit with all it's melting pot character and Clint take full advantage of the opportunity to disparage every ethnic group. If your sensitive to racial eptithets this movie will surely offend you. The ending, however, departs from the typical Clint formula. I don't want to ruin...

During the post-Vatican II push for more "relevant" religion classes, students in my high school "Theology of the Film" course trooped off to see Dirty Harry -- the 1971 drama starring Clint Eastwood as the police lieutenant who violates the law, including the torture of suspects, to protect San Franciscans from a wily serial killer. Afterward, we held the requisite classroom debate on whether Harry was justified in taking the law into his own hands. Most of us teenagers didn't quite understand the point of the discussion -- Harry did what he had to do, right? But our teacher, a...

After going into a coma when Obama won the Presidency, Ed Anger, the original conservative commentator, has been revived by his hatred for the Big Three CEOs and their execution of the auto industry.

DHP Review: Gran Torino Clint Eastwood’s hinted that Gran Torino might be his last turn in front of the camera. If that’s true, he could not have chose for himself a more fitting farewell. Without a hint of the self-referential, Torino touches on the many iconic moments of both his best genre pictures and more serious fare. Most of all, he’s masterfully blended both into a hard-hitting, supremely satisfying story that carries big themes with a deft gentleness. Working from a superb script by relative newcomer Nick Schenk, Gran Torino opens in just the kind of Catholic church you expect...

At 78, perhaps the only actor in the history of American cinema to convincingly kick the butt of a guy 60 years his junior, the hard-headed, snarly mouthed Clint Eastwood of the 1970s comes growling back to life in "Gran Torino." Centered on a cantankerous curmudgeon who can fairly be described as Archie Bunker fully loaded (with beer and guns), the actor-director's second release of the season is his most stripped-down, unadorned picture in many a year, even as it continues his long preoccupation with race in American society. Highlighted by the star's vastly entertaining performance, this funny, broad but...