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Clint: The Life and Legend eBook
by Patrick McGilligan
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Clint: The Life and Legend Summary
| Like The Man With No Name, one of his most famous roles, Clint Eastwood has always had an aura of mystery. He has long been an internationally famous star, first of television and then of the movies, and he has more recently joined a select group of Oscar-winning actor-directors, including Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen. But the real Clint, previously only ever guessed at, or glimpsed imperfectly, has never been so honestly and thoroughly revealed as in this gripping and scrupulously researched biography by one of America's top film writers, Patrick McGilligan. Now approaching 70, he has tended to play characters who are cold, hard and morally ambiguous: from Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" through "Hang Em High" and "Dirty Harry" to "Pale Rider" and "Unforgiven". Alternately stroking and intimidating the press, Clint Eastwood has always been an arch manipulator: of women, friends and colleagues, publicity and finance. Yet in a bewildering age, perhaps no star is more the hero to his audience: a symbol of simple solutions, law and order, "de-fashioned" values, and rebellion against bureaucracy. Always even-handed, managing to steer clear of both fawning over and unfair excoriation of its fascinating subject, this biography gives Clint his due as actor, director and human being. |
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