CLINT EASTWOOD. A Biography.

Clint]. Schickel, Richard. [Eastwood

ISBN 10: 0224038117 / ISBN 13: 9780224038119

Published by Alfred A. Knopf,, 1996

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Title: CLINT EASTWOOD. A Biography.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Bon

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Synopsis:

For 30 years Clint Eastwood has been at the top of his profession, first as an actor and more recently as a director. This biography uses interviews with Eastwood, his friend and colleagues, to explore the contradictions between the generally perceived image of the man and the realities of his personality and career. Eastwood's life is covered in depth including: his restless adolescence that led to his tentative days as a Hollywood studio contract player; an unexpected break in the TV series "Rawhide"; the gamble of making spaghetti Westerns; the high-impact Dirty Harry films; the increasingly respected directorial career; the critical breakthroughs of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", "Bronco Billy" and Tightrope", and the Oscar-winning success of "Unforgiven".

Review:

In 1992, when Unforgiven won director/star Eastwood the critical respect that had eluded him for a quarter-century, film critic Schickel was already a friend of 15 years. Their relationship, and a series of in-depth interviews conducted over five years, gives this biography a pleasing intimacy. Schickel believes Eastwood "has taken the presentation of the heroic male into country he has not previously ridden"; he makes a strong case for that idea in an admiring(but not fawning) book that lays the foundation for more objective works in the future. --Christine Buttery