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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2007, 09:59:24 PM » |
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I'm watching "Centerstage" (an interview show on the New York Yankees network, YES) with Kevin Bacon, and he just told an amusing anecdote about how he met Clint in Deauville in '00, ducking out of a screening of his own film after the lights went down to drive to a restaurant five miles away where he met Clint and his Space Cowboys co-stars. He told Clint how much he admired him and that he'd love a chance to work with him. Two years later came the call to co-star in Mystic River. Bacon had nothing but praise for Eastwood, both as an actor and as a director. In a final "man in the street" interview sequence, several people mentioned Mystic River as their favorite Bacon film. And now I'm gonna watch "Yankees Encore," the replay of the Yankees' great comeback win today ... at least until I fall asleep! 
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2007, 10:08:03 PM » |
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Reference to Clint in the September 21st issue of Entertainment Weekly Ask the Critic Owen Gleiberman
Q: Are there directors who have such a strong body of work that they earn a free pass from critics even on less-than-worthy projects? - Lloyd
A: Yes, but there's a fine distinction to be made. How can you tell when a filmmaker has crossed the nearly invisible line between deserved acclaim and overpraise -the line between rave reviews that are justified and those that feel a little too ... automatic? When, in other words, has he or she become a critics' darling? This is, by definition, a highly subjective judgment, but to me the old quip about pornography applies: it may be hard to define, but I know it when I see it. Here, in no particular order, are a handful of directors -all major artists- who have been buffed, for a good portion of their careers, with a can-do-no-wrong sheen: Orson Welles, Terrence Malick, Wong Kar-Wai, Mike Leigh, Clint Eastwood, Lina Wertmuller, Richard Linklater, John Cassavetes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Guy Maddin, and -the granddaddy of all critics' darling- Jean Luc Godard.
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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2007, 11:32:01 PM » |
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I don't know what the mods think about this, but I thought I'd start a thread for every article that we read online or in the press and that mentions Eastwood without being specifically about him or the films he is currently working on -no need to start a new thread every time we see his name mentioned somewhere  Eastwood was in this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly featuring the "50 Smartest People In Hollywood". He didn't make The List, but ... Smart and Smarter
Our list focuses on the 50 brainiest individuals in Hollywood, but what about the industry's successful partnerships? Sometimes intelligence can be measured only in twos - and we're smart enough to recognize that.
Clint Eastwood and Paul Haggis
As a directing/writing duo, they raise the level of each other's game, making smart, provocative dramas with potent Oscar appeal: Million Dollar Baby, Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. Eastwood tempers a maudlin streak in Haggis' solo work (Crash, In The Valley of Elah), and Haggis brings emotional warmth and political heat to Eastwood's cool distance (Mystic River, Blood Work). Sorry, no link. I couldn't find it online.
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« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2008, 12:34:17 PM » |
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Article on Jay Baruchel ( Million Dollar Baby's Danger) published in The Ottawa Citizen and mentioning Eastwood: Young Montrealer improvising his way to top

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Laughter and conviviality seem to come easily to Baruchel. So, not surprisingly the actor admits his most intimidating project to date was taking on a dramatic role in Clint Eastwood's academy award-winning Million Dollar Baby (2004), mainly because of Eastwood's quiet directing style.
"After every take I'd say, 'Was that OK? Did you like it?' and, finally, Morgan Freeman leaned over and said, 'If he doesn't say anything, he likes it.'"
The director's legendary status also made him uneasy.
"He's the only guy that if my granddad were alive, he would have given a (damn) about," Baruchel says as if he's still surprised he was in the movie.
Baruchel played the mentally unstable boxer Danger Barch, and was thanked by Eastwood in his Oscar-acceptance speech for his work in the film. [...] LINK
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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2008, 10:14:00 PM » |
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From TMZClint Eastwood -- Don't Sit on My Face!
TMZ has obtained a lawsuit in which Clint Eastwood is suing a furniture upholsterer for distributing "The Eastwood" home theater chair.

In the lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court, Eastwood claims Palliser Furniture used "his name, image and/or likeness" to hawk the product. Sit on that!
The company has sold other home theater chairs using the names of stars, including "The Brando," "The Cagney," "The Bronson," and "The Connery." Brando's family also sued the company after his death -- that case is still pending.
Eastwood's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction. You can read the lawsuit doc (pdf)
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