In a career that spanned over half a century, actor and director Clint Eastwood managed to become both a top box office draw and an Oscar-winning director, while managing to shrug off the trappings of Hollywood. Never one to worry about critical or audience reception, Eastwood amassed a staggeringly impressive body of work both in front of and behind the camera, while at the same time starring in two film series that were both legendary and notorious. After breaking through on television on “Rawhide” (CBS, 1959-1966), he personified the laconic Man With No Name in a trilogy of Spaghetti
Sean Penn told a story when he recently took the stage at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to present his friend Clint Eastwood with the Modern Master Award. “When Clint was born, all eleven pounds of him, a terrified
Wow. I mean, wow. I've made fun of the Academy over the years but it's usually more in a sporting, kid-playground sort of way. This time, they just really pissed me off. Predictably, the Academy failed to recognize some of my
Changeling hasn't wowed critics, though the the familiar rumble of Oscar buzz has started for Angelina Jolie, who plays the mother of a kidnapped child. But the too-weird-to-believe story is
In the past week or so since its release on DVD, more than a handful of people have come up to me and asked why Gran Torino wasn't nominated for a single Academy Award. Now I think the film is average in many respects but also