Clint: The Life and Legend

Title: Clint: The Life and Legend
Author: Patrick McGilligan
I: 1709297
ISBN: 9780312290320
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 634
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Publisher Description: Like The Man With No Name, one of his most famous roles, Clint Eastwood has always had an aura of tight-lipped mystery. He has long been an internationally famous star, first of television and then of the movies, and he has more recently joined a select group of Oscar-winning actor-directors, including Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen.
But the real Clint has always been an enigma-until now. With this gripping and scrupulously researched biography, Patrick McGilligan, one of America's top film writers, has revealed the man behind the indelible image.
Throughout his remarkable near-half century career, Eastwood has tended to play characters who are cold, hard and morally ambiguous-from Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" through "Hang Em High" and "Dirty Harry" to "In the Line of Fire" and "Unforgiven." No star is more the hero to his audience: a symbol of simple solutions, law & order, and rebellion against bureaucracy. But offscreen, Clint Eastwood has always been an arch manipulator: of women, friends and colleagues, publicity and finance.
Always even-handed, managing to steer clear of both fawning over and unfair excoriation of its fascinating subject, this biography sheds definitive light on Clint as actor, director and human being.