Word: clint
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...country. In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar. No longer a cult figure but still well this side of A-list famous, Norris and some of his Hollywood partisans figure his celebrity is analogous to that of Clint ( Eastwood. "He is the next McQueen and Eastwood," says John Bennett, who produced Forced Vengeance (1982), "because there's nobody else assuming their mantles...
...threat was one that Reagan had voiced many times before. But the words, echoing a celebrated Clint Eastwood line, marked a new high in cocky combativeness, even for a President who has never been exactly deficient in that quality. Both the business executives who greeted the dare with applause and laughter and the members of the Senate Budget Committee at whom it was aimed were aware that Reagan was mockingly embracing the very swaggering-cowboy image his detractors have long been trying...
...Rehnquist's dissent "the surprising thing about this case. He could have concurred but said the right should be limited to capital cases or to cases when a showing of psychiatric need has been made. But he dissented instead." Chided Kamisar: "He's determined to show he's the Clint Eastwood of the Supreme Court...
...muses Actress Louise Fletcher, 48. "I was really amazed at his work discipline. When the director told him to hit his mark, he was right there." Fletcher's co-star is obviously a seasoned pro; indeed, C.J. the orangutan, 13, has charmed moviegoers as the swinging simian in Clint Eastwood's Any Which Way You Can (1980), and starred last year in the short-lived Mr. Smith television series. He and the huggable Fletcher met on the set of My Secret Friend, a TV movie to be aired on CBS this winter. In an unusual bit of crosscasting...
...coincidence, not the harbinger of a trend. In the main, Hollywood pictures since the mid-'70s have been sexually arid. Even the horny teen romps use the erotic impulse only as the setup for an anatomical punch line. Among the box-office hits of 1984, only the Clint Eastwood melodrama Tightrope had much to say about the dark night of the libido, and much of that was muffled under the bang-bang of a climactic chase. For that matter, De Palma and Russell are eccentric outsiders, and so are their new movies...