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...favorite moment was when [Director Clint Eastwood] called me up and said he wanted to cast Laurence Fishburne as Whitey,” Lehane said. “I love Laurence Fishburne, and it’s so cool to have a black character named Whitey...
...forget Clint Eastwood, Fred Thompson and George Murphy...
...Kerry is less American and somehow potentially unelectable because he is well educated, is fluent in more than one language, has good taste and is well groomed? If being elected President of the U.S. requires a candidate to speak like Clint Eastwood in a bad western, pretend to like Philly cheesesteaks and appeal to lowest-common-denominator redneck values, then God help us! Please give American voters more credit. Neil Fox Helsinki...
Really, the language issue is a stand-in for a bigger question. There have been other dark and complicated takes on the western--Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove--but they, like westerns themselves in recent years, have been as occasional as tumbleweeds. We still associate the genre with the moral simplicity and cliche of its heyday: straight-shooting, black and white hats. (When President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," he wasn't going for relativism.) Are we ready for the genre of John Wayne...
...Clint Eastwood proved anything in Unforgiven, it was that actors don’t have to be showy to be effective. Too bad that nobody told Sean Penn, who brings his full actor-y powers to bear in Mystic River, Eastwood’s latest effort. Too often, the film feels less like the well-crafted whodunit at its center and more like a freshman acting class: Penn thrashes and grimaces, Tim Robbins acts numb, and Marcia Gay Harden wobbles her voice so much that you wonder if she’s standing on the San Andreas Fault...