Clint Eastwood Hasn’t Taken Direction from Anyone But Clint Eastwood Since 1993
No wonder he wouldn’t let them vet his routine at the Republican Convention.
Posts tagged: Clint Eastwood
Was 1982 the Best Summer in the History of Movies?
David Morgan says it was the vintage year for summer flicks.
Clint Eastwood In Your Kitchen
Here’s what it’s like when a Hollywood icon shoots a 20-second bit outside your front door. Best line:
Coens vs. Clint: Multi-Oscar Showdown!
“Fill your hands with Oscar nominations, you #$@%!!”The Coen Brothers are thrice-nominated for True Grit in the Academy Awards this year: for best picture, director, and adapted screenplay.
‘Cowboys and Aliens’ is Not Funny
“By the time the film… opens next July, the studio expects advertising and future promotions to have persuaded almost everyone that Mr. Favreau’s movie is a tough-minded adventure on the order of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven — with aliens.”It may sound like an action comedy, but Jon Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens is actually supposed to be really scary.Now that you know, watch that trailer again:
Yes, It’s THAT Eli Wallach
Our new profile of veteran actor Eli Wallach has just been posted by editor Paul Hehn.You look at recent photos of Eli Wallach and think, oh, here’s this grandfatherly old fellow who pinches babies’ cheeks and wears tweed socks and sits on park benches looking harmlessly at pretty girls as they jog past.
Frank Frazetta, Beloved ‘Conan the Barbarian’ Illustrator, Dead at 82
Frank Frazetta, the fantasy painter and illustrator whose images of sinewy warriors and lush vixens graced paperback novels, album covers and comic books for decades and became something close to the contemporary visual definition of the sword-and-sorcery genres, died Monday after suffering a stroke the night before. He was 82.”Sinewy warriors and lush vixens” — that’s saying it.
Happy 20th Deathday, Lee Van Cleef!
Lee Van Cleef, the nine-fingered master of the sidelong Western sneer, died 20 years ago today.Had he lived, he’d be 84 years old now.