Clint Eastwood Fast Facts
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Here’s a look at the life of Clint Eastwood, a filmmaker, actor, producer, director and composer.
Personal
Birth place: San Francisco, California
Birth name: Clinton Eastwood Jr.
Father: Clinton Eastwood Sr., corporate executive
Mother: Margaret Ruth (Runner) Wood, homemaker
Marriages: Dina Ruiz (1996-2014, divorced); Margaret “Maggie” Johnson (1953-1984, divorced)
Children: with Dina Ruiz: Morgan; with Frances Fisher: Francesca; with Jacelyn Reeves: Kathryn and Scott; with Maggie Johnson: Alison and Kyle; with Roxanne Tunis: Kimber
Education: Attended Los Angeles City College
Military service: US Army 1951-1953
Other Facts
Produced, directed, starred in and composed music for six films: “Heartbreak Ridge,” “Unforgiven,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “Space Cowboys,” “Million Dollar Baby,” and “Gran Torino.”
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Commentary
Our streets are now so unsafe that it might be helpful to re-watch Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” films. They can remind us of an earlier period in the 1960s and 1970s when crime was widespread, liberal judges were putting criminals back on the streets, and the entire system was anti-cop and pro-criminal.
In the middle of a wave of violence that left everyday Americans feeling both threatened and vulnerable, along came a series of movies which captured the desire for law and order.
The first and most famous of these was the 1971 “Dirty Harry” starring Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan of San Francisco. The film was so powerful and so well received that it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant.”
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Russell Yann, the former owner of Yann’s hotdogs in Fairmont, West Virginia.
Yann’s Hotdogs in Fairmont, West Virginia is easy to miss, if you re not looking. It doesn t even have a sign out front. Inside, there are only nine seats at the lunch counter. It s a tiny place. But Yann s has a huge, devoted following.
There are regulars who go there for lunch every day. There’s even a story about a homesick West Virginia boy stationed in Korea, who had his mom cold-pack the dogs and ship them overseas.
But if you wanted a dog from Russell Yann the iconic restaurant’s equally iconic owner, who died on Jan. 15, 2021 there were some rules to follow.
Clint Eastwood First Star to Call Out Pro-Criminal Left-Dirty Harry turns 50 in 2021
Posted on “I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head
clean off, you ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky?
Well, do ya, punk?” 2021 will mark 50 years since Clint Eastwood laid down that challenge as Inspector Harry Callahan, also known as
Dirty Harry because he takes on any dirty job that comes along. In this 1971 film, the “Scorpio Killer” is on the loose in San Francisco, and Callahan must track him down. Sounds simple, but fans and critics have lost sight of the high concept.
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