| Handy gagdet gives columnist much-needed 'edge' | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:27:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | As a man of action who finds himself having to tackle potentially-deadly situations involving adverbs and dangling participles nearly every day, I desperately need what Clint Eastwood in the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales refers to as "an edge." I didn't have an edge, though, until my friend Michelle gave me a Victorinox SWISSCARD LITE for my birthday. .... | |
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| | | Clint Eastwood raises the anti-war flag with new film | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:02:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | After Million Dollar Baby won Clint Eastwood the Academy Award for best picture, one expects nothing but the best from the 76-year-old director. And Eastwood doesn't disappoint. Flags of Our Fathers takes up from where Saving Private Ryan left off, putting the spotlight on the ironies of 'war for peace' and the impact of bloody coups on both the winners and the losers. The film hinges on one particular photograph, which moved a nation and its people. The war in question is the Second World War's Battle of Iwo Jima and the photograph is the February 23, 1945 image 'Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima' of five US Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi, snapped by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. .... | |
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| | | Finding Forest | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 3:06:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | TORONTO -- Forest Whitaker insists he doesn't like the "O" word. "Obsessive." He gets called it a lot, by critics trying to describe his intense performances in films like Clint Eastwood's Bird and on TV shows like The Shield. He gets called it by fellow actors, too, because of his ultra Method-y tendencies to spend months preparing for each part and to stay in character even when the cameras aren't rolling. Yet here's Whitaker, in a hotel room at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he has come to promote The Last King of Scotland, a drama set in 1970s Uganda. And he's using the "O"-word to describe himself and, particularly, how he went about preparing for his role as the notorious dictator Idi Amin. "I was learning Swahili," he says of the weeks leading up to the film's shoot in Uganda.... | |
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| | | All shook up by Elvis | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 1:46:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | ELVIS was nowhere to be seen, but one of his quirks ? shooting out the television set ? has been used as a terror tactic in a Gold Coast home invasion. But while The King was known to fire the odd shot in anger at what he deemed trash TV, police say the occupants' choice of viewing – Celebrity Survivor – had nothing to do with Thursday night's bizarre attack. Dirty Harry even made an appearance in the guise of one of the occupants, who challenged the gunman Clint Eastwood-style: "Go ahead, make my day." It happened about 9.30pm as a 28-year-old woman and her female friend were watching TV in a loungeroom at Muresk Court, Mermaid Waters. "We heard a knock, opened the the door and these two guys just burst in," said one of the women, who did not want to be named.... | |
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| | | IT'S FALL -- GO DEEP! / The season kicks off with Atwood, finishes up strong with Munro | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:09:12 AM by Blog57 Team | | Your entire happiness this fall could hinge on how good Cormac McCarthy's new novel is, how gripping Clint Eastwood's adaptation of a best-seller about Iwo Jima proves to be, and whether Cal will have the sole team in the Bay Area that can keep you interested until halftime. We at Book Review understand that. We're sensitive that way. That is why, before we break down the books of note coming out September through November, we once again offer our services as your cultural adviser, ferreting out and holding up for your consideration what we think will be the best of the season's Big Three -- books, films adapted from books, and, yes, football. We start early, as in this Saturday, when the Golden Bears get to play Tennessee. In Knoxville. At night. Cal has a legitimate shot at winning the Pac-10 this year (not to mention playing for a national championship), and beating a ranked SEC team on the road would be, as Hemingway might have said, "a fine thing." Later in the month, new novels by Mark Haddon, Ward Just, Janet Fitch, John le Carre and Michael Tolkin will be in stores, along with a promising story collection by Karen Russell, an essay collection by Jonathan Franzen and a memoir of sorts by esteemed critic Daniel Mendelsohn (art critic Robert Hughes has a memoir out, too, and uber-critic Greil Marcus has book on the very idea of America).... | |
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| | | Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" Poster | | Posted Saturday, August 12, 2006 5:04:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | Binh Ngo writes: "Clint Eastwood decided that the story of Iwo Jima was too big for just one movie, so he figured he'd make one from the American perspective, and a second through the eyes of the Japanese. Pretty cool idea, and the first film, entitled "Flags of Our Fathers," opens on October 21st. A brand-new poster has just been revealed... .... | |
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| | | DVD Classics: 'Rawhide' got Eastwood's career rollin' | | Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 7:04:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | With "Rawhide, The Complete First Season" (Paramount, $49.99) we get a look at the series that propelled Clint Eastwood to stardom. For it was his role here as Rowdy Yates that led to him being cast in the "spaghetti Westerns" that made him a bankable movie star, starting with "A Fistful of Dollars" in 1964. The series ran from 1959 to 1966 and has an interesting genesis. In 1958, CBS wanted a Western to counter NBC's popular "Wagon Train" and hired Charles Marquis Warren, who had adapted the CBS radio drama "Gunsmoke" to TV, to create it. Warren wanted to do a series about a cattle drive and drew on three sources of inspiration: a Joel McCrea Western he had just directed ("Cattle Empire," 1957), the diary of an actual 1860s trail boss and the Borden Chase novel that served as the basis for the 1948 John Wayne-Montgomery Clift western, "Red River." The resulting "Rawhide" TV series focused on a continuous cattle drive led by trail boss Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) and his ramrod, Yates (Eastwood), and resembles "Red River," with Fleming standing in for Wayne and Eastwood for Clift.... | |
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| | | Clint Eastwood To Receive BAFTA's Stanley Kubrick Award For ... | | Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 9:02:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - The 15th annual Britannia Awards will honor Clint Eastwood this year by presenting him with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, the most prestigious award given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles. Eastwood has directed over 25 films in his lifetime. He won his first Oscars with "Unforgiven," winning in the categories of best picture and director. He also directed "Million Dollar Baby," which garnered him the awards for best picture and best director. BAFTA/LA chairman Peter Morris said, "Clint Eastwood is an undisputed international icon and an enormous creative force, both behind and in front of the camera. It is our distinct pleasure to honor him with our highest film award." This year's award ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Century Plaza on November 2.... | |
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| | | Eastwood to receive Stanley Kubrick Award | | Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:10:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES, July 11 (UPI) -- The British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles has named actor-director Clint Eastwood as the recipient of the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award. The award will be presented Nov. 2 at the 15th annual Britannia Awards at the Century Plaza in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Reporter said. "Clint Eastwood is an undisputed international icon and an enormous creative force, both behind and in front of the camera," the academy chairman Peter Morris said. Eastwood is currently producing and directing "Flags of Our Fathers," about the World War II battle of Iwo Jima to be released in October. He's also working on a companion film, "Letters from Iwo Jima," told from the Japanese perspective. .... | |
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