12 takes his genius away: Ibid.
13 I just couldn’t have sat there: Quoted in Goldman, Hype and Glory, p. 174
14 No apologizing, no excuses: Ibid.
15 You can’t have a movie: Quoted in Crouch, “Birdland.”
16 a rat’s nest: Pauline Kael, “Bird Thou Never Went,” The New Yorker, October 17, 1988 (reprinted in Movieline).
17 perfectly atrocious: Quoted in Christopher Tricarico, “Out-takes: Go Ahead, Make My Lecture,” Los Angeles Times Calendar, October 8, 1988.
18 Parker didn’t live: Helen Knode, “This Is Your Life,” L.A. Weekly, November 4, 1988.
19 We just didn’t seem to have: Quoted in Derek Malcolm, “Huston’s Hexes,” The Guardian (London), May 14, 1990.
20 was, you know, ‘tough guy’: Interview with Frances Fisher, May 30, 1995. All subsequent quotations from her are drawn from the same source.
21 I told him I couldn’t believe: Quoted in Claudia Puig, “In the Matter of Locke vs. Eastwood,” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1989.
22 Mr. Eastwood has asked: Quoted in Puig, “Locke vs. Eastwood.”
23 They don’t call him: Richard Phillips, “Newsmakers: Eastwood Shoots Back,” Chicago Tribune, May 9, 1989.
24 because I know him: Quoted in Puig, “Locke vs. Eastwood.”
25 I adamantly deny: Ibid.
26 I felt so disappointed: Quoted in Mary Murphy, “Is TV a Glint in Clint’s Eye,” TV Guide, January 27, 1990.
27 It makes us happy: Quoted in Abromowitz, “Little Girl.”
28 the unfightable one: Quoted in Ann W. O’Neill and Efrain Hernandez Jr., “Eastwood, Locke, Settle Fraud Suit for Undisclosed Sum,” Los Angeles Times, September 25, 1996.
29 Everywhere I went: Quoted in Murphy, “Clint.”
30 Huston’s persona: Michael Wilmington, “Clint Eastwood’s Acid Test,” Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1990.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
1 sheltered by ignorance: David Webb Peoples, “He’s Going to Shoot You If You Disappoint Him,” in Clint Eastwood Tribute Book, ed. Schneider, p. 12
2 We would have been: Sonia Chernus to Clint Eastwood, memorandum, January 5, 1984.
3 I can’t do what Francis: Peoples, “He’s Going to Shoot.”
4 one of the most tremendous: Quoted in D. J. Taylor, “Getting Inside the Outsider,” The Sunday Times (London), June 20, 1993.
5 classicism at its most august: Richard Jameson, “Deserve’s Got Nothin’ to Do with It,” Film Comment, September-October 1992.
6 if it works immediately: Quoted in Ric Gentry, “Clint Eastwood,” Us, January 26, 1987.
7 that moving quickly: Interview with David Valdes, September 17, 1991.
8 You’ll never find a bullhorn: Interview with Lloyd Nelson, October 9, 1991.
9 Nobody has to shout: Interview with Richard Harris, September 17, 1991.
10 We’re in bumfuck, Alberta: Quoted in Biskind, “Any Which Way.”
11 I’d never seen or imagined: Peoples, “He’s Going to Shoot.”
12 Eastwood’s meditation: Richard Corliss, “The Last Roundup,” Time, August 10, 1992.
13 When I heard: Quoted in Bernard Weinraub, “3 Films Dominate Nominations in Oscar Contest,” The New York Times, February 18, 1993.
14 I’m popular with the public: Quoted in Siskel, “Long Overdue.”
15 You wear a monocle: Quoted in Elaine Dutka and Robert Welkos, “A Few Good Words behind Scenes,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1993.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
1 If anybody told me: Quoted in Roger Ebert, “No Rest for Eastwood; He’s Already on to Next Film,: Sacramento Bee, July 9, 1993.
2 That mentality: Quoted in Matt Spetalnick, “Clint for President,” Toronto Star, July 9, 1993.
3 You know, it’s always appealing: Quoted in Bernard Weinraub, “Clint Eastwood, Back on the Side of the Law,” The New York Times, December 7, 1992.
4 The operative mode: Howard Hampton, “Sympathy for the Devil,” Film Comment, November-December 1993.
5 Give it scope: Interview with Wolfgang Petersen, July 20, 1993. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.
6 Why is Wolfgang: Quoted in Weinraub, “Side of the Law.”
7 I’ve never been against that: Quoted in Matt Spetalnick, “Dirty Harry in Tears?” The Reuters Library Report, July 7, 1993.
8 I’ve been knocking: Janet Maslin, “Make His Day? Museum Does That for Eastwood,” The New York Times, October 27, 1993.
9 There are quite a lot of Americans: Quoted in Spetalnick, “Clint for President.”
10 very elegant, very handsome: Quoted in Bernard Weinraub, “An Actor Seeks Variety and Finds Success,” The New York Times, September 7, 1993.
11 You evolve, or you don’t evolve: Interview with Kevin Costner, June 3, 1993.
12 A visitor from another planet: Thomson, Dictionary of Film, p. 220
13 The high point: Janet Maslin, “When Destiny Is Sad and the Scars Never Heal,” The New York Times, November 24, 1993.
14 offers passing condemnations: Michael Medved, “It’s a PC, PC ‘World,’ ” New York Post, November 24, 1993.
15 a startling example: Richard Grenier, “Clint Eastwood Goes PC,” Commentary, March 1994.
16 I guess she hands out my number: Streep interview. All subsequent quotations from her are drawn from the same source.
17 aimed at the anxious adolescent: Robert Plunket, “Zing Went the G-Strings of My Heart,” The New York Times Book Review, February 5, 1995.
18 Your age and mine: Quoted in interview with Dina Ruiz, May 6, 1996. All subsequent quotations from her are drawn from the same source.
19 spatial and temporal: Richard Combs, “Old Ghosts: The Bridges of Madison County,” Film Comment, May-June 1996.
20 She’s someone very rare: Quoted in Dany Jucaud, “Clint Eastwood: L’amour, Ce N’Est Pas’ une Question d’Age,” trans. Robert Lloyd, Paris-Match, September 21, 1995.
EPILOGUE
1 Gary Cooper had seen: Thomson, “Forgiven.”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The amount of printed material generated by a career as long as Clint Eastwood’s is almost literally staggering. Therefore, this bibliography is, of necessity, selective. In it I have listed items that I have quoted from extensively in the text or which otherwise contributed significandy to my understanding of his life and may help others to do the same. Shorter and more ephemeral journalistic items directly quoted in the text are cited in the Notes and are not included here. All publishers are located in New York unless otherwise indicated.
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
Adler, Renata. A Year in the Dark. Random House, 1969.
Agan, Patrick. Clint Eastwood. London: Coronet Books, 1975.
Agee, James. A Death in the Family. McDowell-Obolinsky, 1956.
Alloway, Lawrence. Violent America: The Movies, 1946–1964. The Museum of Modern Art, 1969.
Bach, Stephen. Final Cut. William Morrow, 1985.
Bernardoni, James. The New Hollywood. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1991.
Bingham, Dennis. Acting Male. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Boorman, John, and Walter Donohue, eds. Projections 4½. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1995.
Bragg, Melvyn. Richard Burton: A Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.
Bruck, Connie. Master of the Game. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Chekhov, Michael. To the Actor. Harper & Brothers, 1953.
Clinch, Minty. Clint Eastwood. London: Coronet Books, 1995.
Cole, Gerold and Peter Williams. Clint Eastwood. London: W. H. Allen, 1983.
Cumbow, Robert C. Once upon a Time: The Films of Sergio Leone. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987.
Downing, David, and Gary Herman. Clint Eastwood: All-American Anti-Hero. London: Omnibus Press, 1977.
Durham, Philip. Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963.
Elliso
n, Ralph. “On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz.” In Shadow and Act. Vintage Books, 1972. Reprinted from Saturday Review, July 28, 1962.
Farber, Manny. Negative Space. Praeger Publishers, 1971.
Frayling, Christopher. Clint Eastwood. London: Virgin Publishing, 1992.
Frayling, Christopher. Spaghetti Westerns. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
Gallafent, Edward. Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director. London: Studio Vista Books, 1994.
Gioia, Ted. West Coast Jazz. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Goldman, William. Adventures in the Screenwriting Trade. Warner Books, 1983.
———. Hype and Glory. Villard Books, 1990.
Hirsch, Foster. A Method to Their Madness. W. W. Norton, 1984.
Horner, William R. Bad at the Bijou. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1982.
Hyams, Joe, with Jay Hyams. James Dean: Little Boy Lost. Warner Books, 1992.
Johnstone, Iain. Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name 2nd ed. Quill/Morrow, 1988.
Kael, Pauline. Deeper into Movies. Bantam, 1974.
———. Going Steady. Boston: AtlanticLittle, Brown, 1970.
———. I Lost It at the Movies. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1965.
———. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1968.
———. Movie Love. Plume, 1991.
———. Reeling. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1976.
———. State of the Art. E. P. Dutton, 1985.
———. Taking It All In. Holt Rinehart Winston, 1980.
———. When the Lights Go Down. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980.
Kaminsky, Stuart M. Clint Eastwood. New American Library, 1974.
———. Don Siegel: Director. Curtis, 1974.
Logan, Joshua. Movie Stars, Real People, and Me. Delacorte Press, 1978.
Lyon, Christopher, ed. The International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers. Perigree, 1985.
Mellen, Joan. Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film. Pantheon Books, 1974.
Mordden, Ethan. Medium Cool. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Munn, Michael. Clint Eastwood: Hollywood’s Loner. London: Robson Books, 1992.
Nalvin, Nancy. The Famous Mr. Ed. Warner Books, 1991.
Parks, Rita. The Western Hero in Film and Television. Ann Arbor, Mich., and London: UMI Research Press, 1982.
Plaza, Fuensanta. Clint Eastwood/Malpaso. Carmel Valley, Calif: Ex Libris/Publisher, 1991.
Richie, Donald. The Films of Akira Kurosawa. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1984.
Roud, Richard, ed. Cinema: A Critical Dictionary. 2 vols. Viking Press, 1980.
Sarris, Andrew. “The Spaghetti Westerns.” In Confessions of a Cultist. Simon & Schuster, 1970.
Schickel, Richard. Clint Eastwood Directs. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1990.
———. James Cagney: A Celebration. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.
Schneider, Wolf, ed. Clint Eastwood Tribute Book. Los Angeles: American Film Institute, 1996.
Siegel, Don. A Siegel Film. London and Boston: Faber & Faber, 1993.
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation. Atheneum, 1992.
Smith, Paul. Clint Eastwood, a Cultural Production. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Steig, Laurence, and Tony Williams. Italian Westerns. London: Lorrimer, 1975.
Thomas, Bob. Golden Boy, the Untold Story of William Holden. St. Martin’s Press, 1983.
———. Joan Crawford. Simon & Schuster, 1978.
Thompson, Douglas. Clint Eastwood: Sexual Cowboy. London: Smith Gryphon, 1992.
Thomson, David. A Biographical Dictionary of Film. 3rd ed. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Updike, John. The Afterlife. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
———. In the Beauty of the Lillies. Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Wood, Robin. Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan. Columbia University Press, 1986.
Zec, Donald. Marvin: The Story of Lee Marvin. St. Martin’s Press, 1980.
Zmijewsky, Boris, and Lee Pfeiffer. The Films of Clint Eastwood. Citadel Press, 1993.
MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS
Abromowitz, Rachel. “The Best Little Girl in Town.” Premiere, July 1995.
Adler, Renata. “The Screen: Zane Grey Meets the Marquis de Sade.” The New York Times, January 25, 1968.
Allen, Tom. “Clint: An American Icon.” Newsweek, July 22, 1985.
Ansen, David. “Dirty Harry Cleans Up His Act.” Village Voice, December 26, 1977.
Armstrong, Lois. “Off the Screen: Sondra Locke’s Stock Rises in Surviving Eastwood’s Mayhem and Hollywood’s Whispers.” People, February 13, 1978.
Associated Press. “Dirty Harry Script Is Right on Target.” Los Angeles Times, September 3, 1976.
Barra, Allen. “Philip Kaufman: Right Stuff! Wrong Package.” Washington Post, August 1, 1993.
Bates, William. “Clint Eastwood: Is Less More?” The New York Times, June 17, 1979.
Biskind, Peter. “Any Which Way He Can.” Premiere, April 1993.
Blowen, Michael. “Appreciation: Sergio Leone, Outsider’s Insight.” Boston Globe, May 2, 1989.
Blumenthal, Bob. “Clint Eastwood.” Jazz Times, September 1995.
Bodeen, DeWitt. “Clint Eastwood … a Fistful of Fame.” Focus on Film, Spring 1972.
Bogdanovich, Peter. “Two Beeg Green Eyes.” New York, November 1973.
Brady, James. “In Step With: Kay Lenz.” Parade, May 23, 1993.
Breskin, David. “Clint Eastwood.” Rolling Stone, September 17, 1992.
Byrne, Bridget. “Around L.A. the Beguiled.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 7, 1970.
———. “Eastwood’s Round ’em Up, Move ’em Out Film Making Style.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 24, 1973.
———. “For Holden the ’50s Never Died.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, December 24, 1972.
———. “Outlaw’s Shooting Star.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, December 7, 1978.
Cahill, Tim. “Clint Eastwood: The Rolling Stone Interview.” Rolling Stone, July 4, 1985.
Canby, Vincent. “Charting Stars across the Decades.” The New York Times, December 14, 1986.
———. “Getting Beyond Myra and the Valley of the Junk.” The New York Times, July 5, 1970.
Caracaterra, Lorenzo. “Dirty Harry Comes Clean.” Video, May 1985.
———. “In Like Clint.” New York Daily News Sunday Magazine, August 12, 1984.
Carroll, Kathleen. “At War with a Movie—or 3 Days on Location.” New York Daily News, August 17, 1969.
Carter, Dan T. “The Transformation of a Klansman.” The New York Times, October 4, 1991.
Champlin, Charles. “A Mellow Eastwood Keeps His Edge.” Los Angeles Times, June 30, 1984.
Chandler, Raymond. “The Simple Art of Murder.” The Atlantic Monthly, December 1944.
“Clint’s Kid.” People, November 15, 1993.
Cole, Larry. “Clint’s Not Cute When He’s Angry.” Village Voice, May 24, 1976.
Combs, Richard. “Old Ghosts: The Bridges of Madison County.” Film Comment, May-June 1996.
Crist, Judith. “Plain Murder All the Way.” New York World Journal Tribune, February 2, 1967.
Crouch, Stanley. “Birdland: Charlie Parker, Clint Eastwood and America.” The New Republic, February 27, 1989.
Crowther, Bosley. “Back in the Saddle Again.” The New York Times, November 2, 1966.
———. “A New Western Anti-Hero.”
The New York Times, February 5, 1967.
———. “Screen: ‘A Fistful of Dollars.’ ”
The New York Times, February 2, 1967.
———. “Screen: ‘For a Few Dollars More.’ ” The New York Times, July 4, 1967.
Denby, David. “Movies: The Last Angry Men.” New York, January 16, 1984.
———. “Beyond Good and Evil.” New York, August 27, 1984.
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lendar, August 2, 1992.
Didion, Joan. “The Golden Land.” The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1993.
Disney, Anthea. “Sondra Locke Enjoys Her Life as Clint Eastwood’s Sidekick.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, April 14, 1978.
“Don Rickles Is So Clean He Could Play the Vatican.” Parade press release, December 16, 1993.
Drew, Bernard. “Brian G. Hutton: I’ve Made It, Baby.” The New York Times, March 23, 1969.
Dunn, Ashley. “Cowboy Film Villain Lee Van Cleef Dies.” Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1989.
Eastwood, Clint. “Happy Transformation.” The New York Times, October 16, 1991.
———. “Mail.” People, March 6, 1978.
———. “The Padrón.” Film Comment, September-October 1991.
Ebert, Roger. “Clint Eastwood—America’s Major Feminist Filmmaker.” San Francisco Examiner, July 18, 1984.
———. “No Rest for Eastwood: He’s Already on to Next Film.” Sacramento Bee, July 9, 1993.
“El Cigarello, Now Gary Cooper.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, December 11, 1966.
Epps, Garrett. “Does Popeye Doyle Teach Us How to Be Fascist?” The New York Times, May 21, 1972.
Faber, Monty. “Clint Eastwood Outgrew Pasta Westerns, But Is Still in the Big Dough.” People, June 2, 1975.
Farber, Stephen. “Star without a Smash.” Movieline, October 4–10, 1985.
Fayard, Judy. “Who Can Stand 32,580 Seconds of Clint Eastwood? Just About Everybody.” Life, July 23, 1971.
Fischoff, Stuart. “Clint Eastwood & the American Psyche.” Psychology Today, January-February 1993.
Flatley, Guy. “At the Movies.” The New York Times, December 17, 1976.
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