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Ueberroth's remarks preceeded the winter draft of professional players not protected on any team's 40-man roster. Among the selections were veteran major leaguer Clint Hurdle and Ed Williams...
Also borrowing from a movie, the men's track team last year sold a shirt modeled on "Sudden Impact," but this year the team is not offering the "Go ahead, make my day," Clint Eastwood special...
...their white hats refulgently creamy, once formulated the Ten Commandments of the Cowboy. They included injunctions to help people in distress, tell the truth always, be "kind to small children, old folks and animals" and "respect womanhood." The cowboy image got dirtier and morally ambiguous in the era of Clint Eastwood, perhaps, but the persona remained heroic. If Arafat wished to be intelligible to an American audience, he should probably have described the plane interception as the work of "desperadoes" or "varmints...
...takes prime-time TV not so much back to the future as forward to the '50s, when series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone invited viewers on a different adventure of the imagination each week. Because Spielberg has enlisted such directors as Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, Paul Bartel and Peter Hyams (Mr. E.T. will direct two of his own the first season), each of the Stories promises a distinctive style. Hyams' episode boasts sepulchral lighting and tension as taut as piano * wire; Bartel's is a slapstick black comedy; Spielberg's two shows are wistful...
Once written, even the best script may die for a variety of reasons. Material developed for a star like Dustin Hoffman will be dead if the bankable name is not interested. Heads of studios change, and so do Hollywood fashions. Current trends favor movies about teens in turmoil and Clint Eastwood films without Clint Eastwood (Code of Silence, Witness). Writers who are fashioning clones of these movies may finish just in time to see their work outmoded by a new trend. "It's like a slot machine," observes Writer Howard Franklin. "You can have done your job well...