this would be an enjoyable movie with some deep meaning if it werent so tragic in reality. Clint Eastwood and his director may like to show that there are nice people in America who understand immigrant life, but Im not sure whether to laugh or cry at this. After all Clint is a die hard Republican who very happily supported the false invasion of Iraq war and the Chimp in Chief (twice may I add). it doesn't take much thinking to say that people of his party were more than happy to portray Arabs as terrorist ragheads and used that image to the fullest extent to win the 2004 election. and most of them still call Asians gooks at home. Did Clint say anything? No Ma'am. Instead he calls Michael Moore the devil incarnate. Say what you want about Michael and his filming tactics (I don't agree with Michael on everything) but he has probably done more for the downtrodden in one day and than that Reagan supporting movie star dick will ever do in his entire lifetime. Making movies about the immigrant experience is an insult when its made by shallow people like Clint and no different than Michael J Fox playing Johnny B Goode in Back to the Future and its producers claiming its a tribute to African Americans.

Surprised you didn't mention tha Every Which Way.. films, which stand away from the rest of Eastwood's work, in their lower middle class pugilistic style. Perhaps his most notable statement on multiculturalism came in The Outlaw Josie Wales, "No offense meant, none taken.." The thing about Eastwood that strikes me is that as a resident of Carmel he follows the standards one critic said of Steinbeck, "that each time the curtain goes up, there is another show.." paraphrase

Of course as you look beneath the surface you find threads connecting them all.

The Every Which Way series is a bit of loose thread, maybe he's trying to pull it into line, finish his thought.

I also feel pretty certain that Eastwood's character can go as deeply into his emotions as Eastwood wants him to. Frankie in Million Dollar Baby?

Thanks for covering Clint, he's my favorite.

Or cut and dry

A career spannin' almost 40 years

He's still one hell of a guy

Clint's been acting for over 50 years!

Those of us remember him well as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide, and that wasn't his first rodeo.

Cheers.

...ah, very nice manouvre there, associating Eastwood with B-movies and not mentioning "A streetcar named Desire".

"their fondness for a nice set of wheels"... haha

...but, are you not withholding valuable information from your readers?

Ask "What was Clint Eastwood's first film role?"

No one will get it.

It was two lines and a brief shot at the end of "Tarantula", for Universal. He plays the bomber who finally destroys the beast at the very end of the film.

Tommy! Allow yourself the simple pleasure of enjoying a movie made by someone who you happen to disagree with politically. You're only spiting yourself anyway- the stars don't care whether you like them or not. Get a grip!

Walt Kowalski also shares a last name with another blue-collar character of stage and screen. Care to guess who that might be?

I heard that that tarantula was actually Sondra Locke!

tommydsz-

Just to carry your Michael J. Fox reference further, Marty McFly tried to pass the name "Clint Eastwood" off to the local Old West toughs in Back to the Future III as a proper he-man moniker, only to have the toughs laugh in his face. A measure of contrition by the filmmakers for the first Back To the Future flick's Chuck Berry faux pas, perhaps?

you obviously cant come back with a coherent argument so you start ranting about my name. deep thinking. real clever depiction of your brain functionality

yo man Im relaxed. I of course know Clint doesn't give a hoot about what us regular folks think. but then again, paying tribute to him by appreciating this movie is like us to pay tribute to George Bush's love for African American's because he like fried chicken. Its like Hitler (if he were alive) playing the role of Oskar Schindler and then asking the audience to ignore the actor and to focus on the movie and its meaning.

You gettin' busy tommy dizzy!

Why are you so sore to the bone?

Leave my man Dirty Harry Eastwood alone.

Now I'll tell ya who's a pain, that cowpoke with no brain, that late "green beret," of "my way or the highway," Mister land of the lame, that jerkoff - John Wayne.

Of course a horse is a horse

Of course of course

And then you've got a jackass

Like Chuck Norris

I'm pretty sure Irving's "what kinda stupid name is that?" was a quote from Back to the Future III.