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THERE'S A NOTION THAT CLINT EASTWOOD, THE GREAT AMERICAN ICON, HAS SOMEHOW DISAPPOINTED A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HIS CONSTITUENCY WITH THIS MOVIE. Well, I got a big laugh out of that. These people are always bitching about "Hollyweird," and then they start bitching about this film. Are they all so mad because The Passion of the Christ is only up for the makeup award and a couple of other minor things? Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right...
...ending of Million Dollar Baby has conservatives and some advocacy groups campaigning against CLINT EASTWOOD'S film, which is up for seven trophies. Will the dustup hurt it? Oscars' past may tell...
...heroic act of efiance to a youth-obsessed culture that Clint Eastwood continues to star in and direct movies, let alone that he often does both with such artistic economy and so little sweat. At 74, he has fashioned one of his richest and sneakiest fables: a boxing tale that screenwriter Paul Haggis based on the stories of F.X. Toole, a former ringside "cut man." That was the trade of Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), who with his pal Eddie (Morgan Freeman) now runs a gym for boxing hopefuls, most without a hope. The longest shot is Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank...
...about a lot," says Pat Clarey, his chief of staff. "It is kind of fun walking the hallways with him as the cameras go off." Schwarzenegger's mantra to the office staff is borrowed from the movies"Action, action, action." Not surprisingly, a steady stream of celebrities drops by: Clint Eastwood, Tom Arnold, Danny DeVito, Anthony Hopkins, Jamie Lee Curtis. Clarey posts snapshots of the famous visitors on her office wall...
...Staff writer Clint J. Froehlich can be reached at froehlic@fas.harvard.edu...