Clint Eastwood (99 page)

  
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an uncomplicatedly nice guy:
Richard Jameson, “Pale Rider,”
The Weekly
(Seattle), February 12, 1986.

  
2
  
beasts of burden:
John Updike,
In the Beauty of the Lillies
, p. 321.

  
3
  
America’s daunting ideas:
Janet Maslin, “Good and Evil in a More Innocent Age,”
The New York Times
, September 14, 1994.

  
4
  
He says very little to you:
Interview with Gene Hackman, September 18, 1991.
By and large:
Interview with Morgan Freeman, October 21, 1991.

  
5
  
Zen and the art of control:
Interview with Tom Stern, June 2, 1993.

  
6
  
He’s not an exclamation point:
Interview with Saul Rubinek, September 17, 1991.

  
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someone’s violated his world:
Interview with Meryl Streep, October 19, 1994.

  
8
  
Eastwood has an uncanny urge:
Thomson, “Forgiven,”
The Independent
(London), August 22, 1993.

  
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Oh, yeah, it’s easy:
Quoted in Norman Mailer, “All the Pirates and People,”
Parade
, October 23, 1983.

10
  
There’s a rebel:
Quoted in Gerald Lubenow, “Rebel in My Soul,”
Newsweek
, July 22, 1985.

  
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What an American:
Norman Mailer, “All the Pirates.”

  
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My dad was Scots-English:
Ibid.

  
3
  
Did you once describe yourself:
Quoted in John Vinocur, “Clint Eastwood, Seriously,”
The New York Times Magazine
, February 24, 1985.

  
4
  
the first one at a party:
Interview with Ruth Wood, November 26, 1995. All subsequent quotations from her are drawn from the same source.

  
5
  
made out of Prince Albert cans:
Arthur Knight, “The Interview: Clint Eastwood,”
Playboy
, February 1978.

  
6
  
I come and go like The Whistler:
Ibid.

  
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I was terrific:
“The Barbara Walters Special,” ABC Television, June 15, 1982.

  
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He went to the drive-in:
Interview with John Calley, May 4, 1994. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.

  
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although I rebelled:
Wayne Warga, “Clint Eastwood: He Drifted into Stardom,” Los Angeles
Times
, June 22, 1969.

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If a kid could ask:
Interview with Fritz Manes, August 11, 1994. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.

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drew like crazy:
Bob Blumenthal,
Jazz Times
, September 1995.

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the last bastion:
Ted Gioia,
West Coast Jazz
, p. 60. I have drawn on this volume for much of my description of the jazz scene in California in the 1940s and 1950s.

13
  
They never heard of him:
Quoted in Ralph Ellison, “On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz,” in
Shadow and Act
, p. 228.

14
  
Parker operated in the underworld:
Ibid., p. 227.

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a grim comedy of racial manners:
Ibid., p. 225. 46
There’s a little guy right inside:
“Barbara Walters Special.”

  
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enhanced their appreciation:
Milton Friedman, “Why Socialism Won’t Work,”
The New York Times
, August 13, 1994.

  
2
  
This man has had:
Quoted in Lennie Niehaus, “The Measure of the Man,” in
Clint Eastwood Tribute Book
, ed. Schneider, p. 14.

  
3
  
We hit it off:
Quoted in Iain Johnstone,
Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name
, p. 13.

  
4
  
The dramatic art is a collective art:
Michael Chekhov,
To the Actor
, p. 41.

  
5
  
a way to help actors:
Quoted in Foster Hirsch,
A Method to Their Madness
, p. 341.

  
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reaching out to your partner:
Quoted in Hirsch, p. 341.

  
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I just lacked the look:
Quoted in Lorenzo Caracaterra, “Dirty Harry Comes Clean,”
Video
, May 1985.

  
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starlets and studlets:
Interview with Jack Kosslyn, August 29, 1994.

  
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I thought I was an absolute clod:
Knight, “Interview.”

  
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I didn’t know what I thought:
Terri Lee Robbe, “Life without Clint,”
Us
, February 16, 1982.

  
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very intense:
Interview with Brett Halsey, September 23, 1994. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.

  
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authority:
This and subsequent evaluations of Clint’s participation in the talent program are from internal Universal International memoranda, June—October 1954, in Clint Eastwood’s possession.

  
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That’s the kind of control:
Interview with Robert Daley, August 1, 1994.

  
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He was always straight:
Quoted in Michael Neill, “Chatter,”
People
, May 26, 1986.

  
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found myself becoming:
Clint Eastwood and Richard Schickel, “Director’s Dialogue,” presentation at Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, September 5, 1990.

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Its sole interest:
See Bob Thomas,
Joan Crawford
, p. 162.

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it was hard:
DeWitt Bodeen, “Clint Eastwood … a Fistful of Fame,”
Focus on Film
, Spring 1972.

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wouldn’t make any impact:
Quoted in Lorenzo Caracaterra, “In Like Clint,”
New York Daily News Sunday Magazine
, August 12, 1984.

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The first year of marriage:
Quoted in Minty Clinch,
Clint Eastwood
, p. 29.

14
  Kardell’s background is recounted in Joe Hyams,
James Dean: Little Boy Lost
, p. 150.

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a skinny-legged kid:
Interview with Wayne “Buddy” Van Horn, June 2, 1993.

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Please be advised:
Jack Baur to Joseph Dubin, Universal interoffice communication, September 22, 1955.

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Some of my friends:
Earl Leaf, “The Way They Were: Clint Eastwood,”
Rona Barrett’s Hollywood
[circa 1972].

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He had tried to get in:
See Clint Eastwood, “Directed By …,” in John Boorman and Walter Donohue, eds.,
Projection 4½
, p. 56.

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Oh, I hated it:
Mailer, “All the Pirates.”

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You want to get rid of anger:
Interview with Robert Donner, August 3, 1984. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.

  
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I haven’t believed in anybody:
Burt A. Folkart, “Charles Marquis Warren, Western Writer,” Los Angeles
Times
, August 13, 1990.

  
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No other type:
Richard Slotkin,
Gunfighter Nation
, p. 348.

  
3
  
The scaling-down process:
Rita Parks,
The Western Hero in Film and Television
, p. 153.

  
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at once supremely powerful:
Slotkin, p. 383.

  
5
  
heavy, ponderous, slow:
Interview with Ted Post, July 25, 1993. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.

  
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I love him:
Arnold Hano, “How to Revive a Dead Horse,”
TV Guide
, October 2, 1965.

  
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A Sunday supplement:
“TV Notes: At Home with Clint Eastwood,” New York
Daily News Sunday Magazine
, May 22, 1960.

  
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almost as badly:
Knight, “Interview.”

  
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He had this thing:
Robbe, “Life without Clint.”

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I’m not shooting orders:
Knight, “Interview.”

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I was never very realistic:
Robbe, “Life without Clint.”

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What he wanted:
John Updike, “Baby’s First Step,” in
The Afterlife
, p. 251.

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Sex is a small part of life:
Quoted in Michael Munn,
Clint Eastwood: Hollywood’s Loner
, p. 40.

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I kept thinking:
Bernard Weinraub, “Even Cowboys Get Their Due,”
GQ
, April 1993.

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Having the security:
Knight, “Interview.”

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You do 250 hours:
Ibid.

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didn’t direct much:
Eastwood and Schickel, “Director’s Dialogue.”

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Like any other actor:
“This Cowboy Feels He’s Got It Made,”
TV Guide
, February 4, 1961.

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Calm on the outside:
Hank Grant, “On the Air,”
The Hollywood Reporter
, July 7, 1961.

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the fifty-first of the 143 episodes:
Nancy Nalvin,
The Famous Mr. Ed
, p. 272. Other background information on this TV show is from the same source.

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It was thirteenth:
This and other ratings figures are from Hano, “How to Revive a Dead Horse.”

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It was just about the worst:
Munn, p. 45.

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I didn’t know:
Ibid.

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It was not until Leone:
See Johnstone, p. 35.

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But he also remembers:
Interview with Leonard Hirshan, November 9, 1993. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.

  
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I became decisively enchanted:
Quoted in Pete Hamill, “Leone: I’m a Hunter by Nature, Not a Prey,”
American Film
, June 1984.

  
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Publishing houses came out:
Ibid.

  
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In recent years:
Pauline Kael, “Yojimbo,” in
I Lost It at the Movies
, p. 242.

  
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the form had become:
See Pauline Kael, “Saddle Sore,” in
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
, pp. 38–46.

  
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The western hero as a classical archetype:
Andrew Sarris, “The Spaghetti Westerns,” in
Confessions of a Cultist
, p. 387.

  
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the western had been killed off:
Christopher Frayling,
Spaghetti Westerns
, p. 100.

  
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The West was made by:
Ibid.

  
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They are only borrowing:
Quoted in Michael Blowen, “Appreciation: Sergio Leone, Outsider’s Insight,” Boston
Globe
, May 2, 1989.

  
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like a religion:
Quoted in Frayling,
Spaghetti Westerns
, p. 15.

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The man of the West:
Quoted in Frayling,
Spaghetti Westerns
, p. 120.

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the strange look:
Quoted in Peter B. Flint, “Sergio Leone, 67, Italian Director Who Revitalized Westerns, Dies,”
The New York Times
, May 1, 1989.

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are less transcendental heroes:
Sarris, “Spaghetti Westerns,” p. 388.

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the remnants of a code of behavior:
Kael,
Kiss
, p. 240.

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no great moral purpose:
Donald Richie,
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
, p. 148.

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the first great shaggy man movie:
Kael,
Kiss
, p. 239.

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The Catholic dichotomy:
Robert C. Cumbow,
Once upon a Time: The Films of Sergio Leone
, pp. 220, 221.

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irredeemably condemned:
Quoted in Frayling,
Spaghetti Westerns
, p. 130.

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very much the grizzled Christ:
Richard Corliss, “Sergio Leone,” in Richard Roud,
Cinema: A Critical Dictionary
, vol. 2, p. 618.

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not only a delirious descendant:
Ibid., p. 618.

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his unbridgeable distance:
Edward Gallafent,
Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director
, p. 17.

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I take the real life actor:
Johnstone,
Clint Eastwood
, p. 37.

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In real life, Clint is slow:
Quoted in Frayling,
Spaghetti Westerns
, p. 146.

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In reality, if you think about it:
Quoted in Hamill, “Leone.”

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Fritz Manes remembers:
Manes interview

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was always there:
“Clint’s Kid,”
People
, November 15, 1993.

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I guess we never had:
Quoted in Douglas Thompson,
Clint Eastwood: Sexual Cowboy
, p. 155.

27
  
I have tried to make an appointment:
Quoted in Clinch,
Clint Eastwood
, p. 277.

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We looked at film:
Interview with Del Reisman, November 17, 1993. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.

29
  
Crackerjack western:
“Hawk,”
“Per un Pugno di Dollari,” Variety
, November 18, 1964.

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memories of the Monogram-Mascot:
Richard Jameson, “Something to Do with Death,”
Film Comment
, March-April 1973.

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Leone has been tossed back:
David Thomson, “Leone, Sergio,” in
A Biographical Dictionary of Film
, 3rd ed., p. 438.

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seamless contradictions:
Corliss, “Sergio Leone,” p. 618.

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My story turned:
Quoted in Ashley Dunn, “Cowboy Villain Lee Van Cleef Dies,” Los Angeles
Times
, December 17, 1989.

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utter shock:
Quoted in Hano, “Dead Horse.” Unless otherwise noted, this and other quotations about
Rawhide
cast changes are drawn from this source.

35
  
In the first show:
Hal Humphrey, “If Rawhide Fails, He’s Big in Europe,” Los Angeles
Times
, September 16, 1965.

36
  
It had been the network’s only show:
Bob Thomas, AP Newsfeature, February 11, 1966.

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a fine, sensitive actor:
“El Cigarello, Now Gary Cooper,” Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner
, December 11, 1966.

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as an interruption:
Sarris, “Spaghetti Westerns,” p. 388.

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That’s like a Hawaiian pizza:
Interview with Eli Wallach, May 11, 1993. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.