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Birthday shoutout: Clint Eastwood
Newport News, Va., Daily Press ^ | May 31, 2013

Posted on 05/31/2013 5:34:25 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Clint Eastwood, whose cinematic legacy can match anyone in Hollywood history, turns 83 years old today.

He first drew attention as Rowdy Yates on TV's "Rawhide," but he became a star on the big screen at age 34 when he created The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's great Western "A Fistful of Dollars." He would reprise the character for Leone in "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: eastwood; happybirthday; hollywood
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Happy birthday.
1 posted on 05/31/2013 5:34:25 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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2 posted on 05/31/2013 5:36:08 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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I love Clint Eastwood movies. White Hunter, Black Heart was on last night.


3 posted on 05/31/2013 5:36:19 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I have sexdaily. Oops, I meant dyslexia.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Made my day

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4 posted on 05/31/2013 5:36:32 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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5 posted on 05/31/2013 5:37:34 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Loved the iger saction


6 posted on 05/31/2013 5:41:41 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Elle Bee

A man has got to know his limitations.


7 posted on 05/31/2013 5:49:07 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Happy Birthday Harry


8 posted on 05/31/2013 5:50:57 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: ConservativeStatement

High Plains Drifter (”Paint the town red!”)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068699/


9 posted on 05/31/2013 6:02:28 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: ConservativeStatement

My favorite quote!


10 posted on 05/31/2013 6:02:56 PM PDT by CheneyChick (01/20/2013 -- the day that could have been)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Clint will always be the MAN, right next to John Wayne. Could you imagine those two together in a film. Wow.....


11 posted on 05/31/2013 6:03:41 PM PDT by nesnah
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One of my favorites.


12 posted on 05/31/2013 6:03:58 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Happy Birthday!

His greatest monologue was Speaking to an empty chair.


13 posted on 05/31/2013 6:07:30 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (True Haters HATE Truth!)
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From Wikipedia: In 1951 during the Korean War, Eastwood was drafted by the United States Army[16] and assigned to Fort Ord in California, where he served as a lifeguard.[17] While on leave in 1951, he was a passenger on a Douglas AD bomber that ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near Point Reyes.[18][19] Escaping from the sinking aircraft, he and the pilot swam 3 miles (5 km) to safety.

Eastwood was on orders to report to Korea and was returning from regular leave from his parents home when the aircraft went down. His orders to Korea were cancelled and he remained at Ft. Ord as a swimming instructor and lifeguard for Rec Services. He liked Golf and bought the golf course at Ft. Ord from the Gov't after BRAC. (I don't know where the idea of swimming from Alcatraz came from )

14 posted on 05/31/2013 6:12:03 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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I saw these notes on IMDB: He attended President Richard Nixon’s landslide victory celebration in Los Angeles, along with John Wayne, Charlton Heston, and Glenn Ford.

Met John Wayne for the first time at the Republican National Convention. [1968]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/bio


15 posted on 05/31/2013 6:12:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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“Loved the iger saction”.
——Whereas I was foolish enough to love “The Eiger Sanction”.


16 posted on 05/31/2013 6:26:10 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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Happy Birthday


17 posted on 05/31/2013 6:31:06 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Kelly’s Heroes is probably my favorite Eastwood movie.


18 posted on 05/31/2013 6:36:54 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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Hang ‘em High, Two Mules for Sister Sara are my faves.


19 posted on 05/31/2013 6:40:17 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: ConservativeStatement

Happy Birthday!


20 posted on 05/31/2013 6:40:48 PM PDT by EDINVA
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