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...secret of Reynolds' and Eastwood's success is that they also have found ways to 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...
...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...
...Eastwood, his annual Christmas release in 1976 was The Enforcer, third in his "Dirty Harry" series. It cost only $4 million to make. So far, it has grossed ten times that amount. His new picture, The Gauntlet, in which he also plays a cop (although this time a much less confident one), is running ahead of The Enforcer at the box office. For both men, these successes are predictable in vehicles that fulfill the expectations of their audiences, mostly people who, as Reynolds' pal Comedy Writer Hank Bradford says, "have to take two steps up [into their pickup trucks...
From here on out, our heroes' road should be straight, trending gently upward as it passes through the lovely countryside of wealth, fame and success?right? Well, not exactly. Hollywood had trouble believing Eastwood's pasta hits weren't flukes. And when he started to get work back home, he was appalled, "not only at the way money was misused, but also the lack of control that an actor had over the character...
...response to this situation was about what you would expect of a man whose screen character personifies rugged individualism in our time. He simply went out and formed his own company, which has taken over sole control of Eastwood's work; he rents himself out to no man or studio. "My theory was that I could foul my career up just as well as somebody else, so why not try it?" The Malpaso Co. is named after a creek that runs through the Eastwood property on the Monterey peninsula. The outfit operates with a minuscule staff from a bungalow...