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...office attraction of this generation (Dirty Harry and Pale Rider), the actor turned director who made Hollywood accept him on his terms, not its, wants to serve his fellow Carmelites in a job that pays a modest $200 a month. "I don't need the money," says Eastwood in that no- wasted-words fashion he has made famous onscreen. "There is nothing ego gratifying in it. This administration has simply been cruel to people...
Fighting words, and Mayor Townsend has some of her own. "It's not entertainment," she sniffs. Dismissing Eastwood as "our cinema star," she says, "I understand that young women are rushing out of restaurants to assault him." That has been happening to Eastwood, 55, since he first sauntered across television screens in 1959 as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide and, in the mid-'60s, appeared as the taut-jawed, tight-lipped hero of three movies dubbed spaghetti westerns. But it is clearly not the kind of scene that the mayor likes to see playing in Carmel...
This has not endeared her to the owners of many of the 67 art galleries, 31 real estate brokerages and scores of restaurants and bars. It definitely riles Eastwood, a part owner of the town's funky hot spot, the Hog's Breath Inn. When he attempted to construct a new building adjacent to the Hog, as insiders call it, the village government turned him down. Dirty Harry would have handled it one way. Clint chose another. He threatened to sue, and the planning commission approved a modified design...
...dispute led to his newest role. Encouraged by a group headed by a saloonkeeper named Bud Allen, Eastwood stunned the town with his decision to run. Candidate Laub was stunned too but recovered quickly. He stocked CLINT FOR MAYOR T shirts in his stores, giving them only to customers who bought a LAUB FOR MAYOR shirt for $11.95. All of which has made grand entertainment for the camera crews and reporters drawn to Carmel from France, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and points between. The race has even become the target of a running satire in the comic strip Doonesbury...
...Eastwood's campaign seems to have shaken the mayor. Waving a letter from a local woman, Townsend says, "There's a rumor that tour-bus companies are selling tickets to future city council meetings. It's not appropriate." Candidate Clint is not falling for any of that. On the tea-and-cracker circuit around town, he is setting forth his position on burning local issues like "second kitchens." A tradition in Carmel, second kitchens have been put in many cottages to allow older residents to live at home while renting out the rest of the house. A tough new ordinance...