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...Clint Eastwood...
...think there's a parallel in my career and Clint's. We both have a particular audience that is loyal to us no matter what the critics say. With Clint, they want him to rip the bad guy's face off. With me, they want me to say those Don Rickles lines to people in authority?the bank clerk who won't cash your check, the traffic cop. And it even goes further, all the way up the lines of authority-even up to the President...
...fulfill the often unexpressed longings of this group, to make that essentially 19th century figure, the resourceful Western loner, into a 20th century character. For what, after all, are Eastwood's many cops but Westerners wearing suits instead of chaps, carrying an automatic instead of a six-gun? Clint's first cop?Coogan in Coogan's Bluff?is a Westerner, an Arizona deputy sheriff who goes to New York City to extradite a prisoner and is soon on a collision course with police-judicial bureaucracy. So is his cop in The Gauntlet, Phoenix lawman also on an extradition...
...Eastwood or a Reynolds than it does to be a Nicholson or a Redford. Eastwood-Reynolds films are usually dismissed by critics, rarely play the chic little theaters where the cinéastes gather to read subtitles and subtleties, or get nominated for prizes. If anyone talks about Burt and Clint at all in the better intellectual circles, it is to denounce their macho manners and express fear that their habitual resort to violence poses a continuing threat to the morals of the children and, very possibly, to Liberal Democracy and All It Holds Dear...
...year after year after year, when the great scorers in the studio accounting offices come to write the names of the annual box-office winners and losers in their ledgers, the names of Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds reliably turn up in ink as black and shiny as the latter's hairpiece. Across the land?in drive-ins and shopping-center triplexes, even in the big cities, where action pictures still provide the underclass with the same kind of escape they always have?Eastwood and Reynolds draw people to theaters in astonishing numbers...