While any biography is going to be interpretative, American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood feels less interpretative than peppered with a lot of personal opinion. Particularly in the latter half, it continually weaves from a paint-by-numbers recounting of events to a kind of cranky blogger’s r...
I am a big fan of Clint Eastwood for many years. Grew up loving his western movies and Dirty Harry movies. Later in my late teens while serving in the US Army, I discovered that the Dirty Harry character was novelized into a series. I had managed to read all that where published. Later I actua...
For some reason, I have been on a Cary Grant bio binge. It must have been that dratted NORTH BY NORTHWEST movie, which I saw on the big screen this year, along with a sold-out crowd. Or perhaps it was BRINGING UP BABY...also seen on the big screen and with an SRO crowd. Grant appears to be the on...
AP Images. My feelings [about Sondra Locke] were the normal feelings you have when someone has been planning for many months to assault your children’s inheritance. —Clint Eastwood Sondra Locke’s very existence was a recurring nightmare for Clint. Every time he thought she was out of his life, ...
That's why movie stars often seem as close, or closer to us, than loved ones.” —PETER RAINER Even before the Berengaria docked in New York City, Cary Grant knew his marriage to Virginia Cherrill was over. During the voyage she had talked about the type of home she wanted to make for them. The mor...
As a Catholic, marriage was sacred, supposed to bring couples together, not push them apart. She talked to her husband about her feelings soon after the success of Stagecoach, that it was obvious to her he was no longer willing to play the one role she cared most about, the loving husband. Wayne ...