Authors: Richard Schickel
1
Name all of:
Interview with Joe Hyams, June 30, 1994.
2
I’d take the script:
Quoted in Patrick Goldstain, “Hey, Crime Does Pay,” Los Angeles
Times
Calendar, October 18, 1995.
3
Clint doesn’t like indecision:
Interview with James Fargo, January 31, 1994. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.
4
I would have liked:
Interview with Verna Bloom, February 23, 1994. All subsequent quotes from her are drawn from the same source.
5
part ghost story:
Vincent Canby, “‘High Plains Drifter’ Opens on Screen,”
The New York Times
, April 20, 1973.
6
male sexual fantasy:
Judith Crist, “Git ’Em Up, Move ’Em On,”
New York
, April 30, 1973.
7
I called him Bill:
Quoted in James Brady, “In Step With: Kay Lenz,”
Parade
, May 23, 1993.
8
I could have been wearing tinfoil:
Quoted in Mary Murphy, “Actress Who Grew into Role,” Los Angeles
Times
, February 18, 1974.
9
Where’s Gregory Peck:
Quoted in Weinraub, “Even Cowboys.”
10
It’s not good writing:
Ibid.
11
I’ll be so old:
Quoted in Peter Biskind, “Any Which Way He Can,”
Premiere
, April 1993.
12
Whichever way you want it:
Quoted in Bridget Byrne, “Eastwood’s Round ’em Up, Move ’em Out Film Making Style,” Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner
, June 24, 1973.
13
You have to learn:
Quoted in Post interview.
14
that silent containment:
Interview with Hal Holbrook, December 11, 1995.
15
wooden impassivity:
Pauline Kael, “Killing Time,”
The New Yorker
, January 14, 1974. Reprinted in Pauline Kael,
Reeling
, pp. 251–56.
16
It is the essentially gentle:
Robin Wood,
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
, p. 223
17
I’ve got to talk to you:
Quoted in interview with Michael Cimino, September 24, 1993. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from this source.
18
You
are
that guy:
Quoted in Stephen Farber, “Star without a Smash,”
Movieline
, October 4–10, 1985.
19
returned rentals of a solidly profitable level:
Stephen Bach,
Final Cut
, pp. 82–83.
20
flamed out:
Mike Hoover, “Man against Mountain and Vice Versa during the Filming of ‘The Eiger Sanction,’ ”
American Cinematographer
, August 1975.
21
it sounds real close:
Ibid.
1
exposed by an Alabama newspaperman:
See “Is Forrest Carter Really Asa Carter?”
The New York Times
, July 26, 1976.
2
wrote a piece:
See Dan T. Carter, “The Transformation of a Klansman,”
The New York Times
, October 4, 1991.
3
If Forrest Carter was:
Clint Eastwood, “Happy Transformation,”
The New York Times
, October 16, 1991.
4
Today we live:
Quoted in “SelfMade Man,”
People
, September 6, 1976.
5
I suppose they see me:
Quoted in “Portrait of a Mean B.O. Winner,”
Variety
, September 15, 1976.
6
the saga of it:
Clint Eastwood’s remarks on the appeal of this project are drawn from Eastwood and Schickel, “Director’s Dialogue.”
7
the original novel:
Quoted in Allen Barra, “Philip Kaufman: Right Stuff! Wrong Package,” Washington
Post
, August 1, 1993.
8
Philip Kaufman asked for:
Thomson, “Forgiven.”
9
He just had a great charisma:
Eastwood and Schickel, “Director’s Dialogue.”
10
Oh, the stumps look fine:
Quoted in Anthea Disney, “Sondra Locke Enjoys Her Life as Clint Eastwood’s Sidekick,” Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner
, April 14, 1978.
11
the weird two:
Quoted in Lois Armstrong, “Off the Screen: Sondra Locke’s Stock Rises in Surviving Eastwood’s Mayhem and Hollywood’s Whispers,”
People
, February 13, 1978.
12
would act, feel and think:
Quoted in Peer J. Oppenheimer, “They Call Her ‘The Beautiful Fake,’ ”
Family Weekly
, November 24, 1968.
13
I do all the stuff:
Quoted in “Portrait of a Mean B.O. Winner,”
Variety
.
14
an oddly abashed form:
Jack Kroll, “Erb-Man,”
Newsweek
, September 13, 1976.
15
He says Kael actually feels:
Quoted in Mary Murphy, “Clint and Kael,” Los Angeles
Times
, April 12, 1976.
16
She was taken by
Last Tango: Quoted in Larry Cole, “Clint’s Not Cute When He’s Angry,”
Village Voice
, May 24, 1976.
17
That was a wonderful film:
“The Merv Griffin Show,” no. 2725, taped July 1, 1982 (transcript).
1
Their effort was better:
Associated Press, “Dirty Harry Script Is Right on Target,” Los Angeles
Times
, September 3, 1976.
2
I thought the woman:
Quoted in Todd Coleman, “Clint’s Women,” unpublished article, January 31, 1996.
3
When my lawyer:
Quoted in “Tyne Daly Gets Her Gun,”
People
, January 31, 1977.
4
Harry has found:
Marjorie Rosen, “Dirty Harry Meets His Better Half,”
Ms.
, March 1977.
5
The girl’s part is:
Richard Thompson and Tim Hunter, “Clint Eastwood, Auteur,”
Film Comment
, January-February 1978.
6
a single thought:
Vincent Canby, “Screen: Eastwood ‘Gauntlet,’ ”
The New York Times
, December 22, 1977.
7
sophisticated character interplay:
Tom Allen, “Dirty Harry Cleans Up His Act,”
Village Voice
, December 26, 1977.
8
Everybody would love:
Quoted in Armstrong, “Locke’s Stock Rises.”
9
I have just finished:
Clint Eastwood, “Mail,”
People
, March 6, 1978.
10
had the notion:
Interview with Alain Silver, September 27, 1994.
11
That picture’s going:
Interview with Barry Reardon, September 23, 1993.
12
Their relationship, in the beginning:
Interview with Richard Tuggle, July 26, 1994. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.
13
an artist and director:
Interview with Michael D. Eisner, December 11. 1995.
14
If I lost my squint:
Quoted in William Bates, “Clint Eastwood: Is Less More?”
The New York Times
, June 17, 1979.
15
this is not a great film:
Vincent Canby, “Screen: ‘Alcatraz’ Opens,”
The New York Times
, June 22, 1979.
16
With Francis Coppola’s budget:
Quoted in Bates, “Clint Eastwood: Is Less More?”
17
I wanted to say something:
Quoted in Vinocur, “Clint Eastwood, Seriously.”
1
sexy legend:
John Love, “Clint Eastwood: A Sexy Legend at 50,”
Cosmopolitan
, July 1980.
2
the intelligence and the financing:
Quoted in Connie Bruck,
Master of the Game
, p. 279
3
My father’s dream:
Quoted in Vinocur, “Clint Eastwood, Seriously.”
4
Clint’s greatest moment:
Interview with Frank Wells, October 12, 1993.
5
Clint takes the bullshit:
Interview with Henry Bumstead, June 3, 1993.
6
They don’t do that for many:
Quoted in Jack Mathews, “Eastwood,”
USA Today
, August 13–17, 1984.
7
the truth is not:
James Wolcott, “Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?”
Vanity Fair
, July 1985.
8
the sixties was largely:
Robert Mazzocco, “The Supply-Side Star,”
The New York Review of Books
, April 1, 1982.
9
amphetamine aesthetic:
Andrew Sarris, “Films in Focus: Cold Wars and Cold Futures,”
Village Voice
, July 6, 1982.
10
is not the establishment:
Ibid.
11
was not somebody we ought:
Quoted in Michael J. Berlin, “POW Raid Leader Surrenders to Thais,” New York
Post
, February 28, 1983.
12
looks like a kid:
Quoted in Vernon Scott, “Scott’s World: East-wood
and Son Co-Star,” UPI dispatch, January 6, 1983.
13
the steely compassion:
Mailer, “All the Pirates.”
14
So they came to me:
Quoted in Roger Ebert, “Clint Eastwood—America’s Major Feminist Filmmaker,” San Francisco
Examiner, July
18, 1984.
15
the makings of:
David Ansen, “Gunning Their Way to Glory,”
Newsweek
, December 12, 1983.
16
They make contact with:
David Denby, “Movies: The Last Angry Men,”
New York
, January 16, 1984.
17
feminist filmmaker:
Tom Stempel, “Let’s Hear It for Eastwood’s ‘Strong’ Women,” Los Angeles
Times
Calendar, March 11, 1984.
18
It’s very simple:
Quoted in Ebert, “Feminist Filmmaker.”
19
As far as the tormented:
Quoted in Carrie Rickey, “In Like Clint,”
Fame
, November 1988.
20
Here is one of the basic lessons:
William Goldman,
Adventures in the Screenwriting Trade
, p. 37
21
Just too dumb:
Quoted in Ebert, “Feminist Filmmaker.”
22
warming with her tomgirl body:
Kathleen Murphy, “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Clint Eastwood as Romantic Hero,”
Film Comment
, May–June 1996.
23
He’s become a very troubled:
David Denby, “Beyond Good and Evil,”
New York
, August 27, 1984.
1
diffuse:
Interview with Richard Benjamin, January 4, 1994. All subsequent quotations from him are drawn from the same source.
2
The Clint Eastwood Magical Respectability:
Vinocur, “Clint Eastwood, Seriously.”
3
Oh, I get it:
Quoted in William Goldman,
Hype and Glory
, p. 117
4
then I thought:
Aljean Harmetz, “Eastwood Top Event at Cannes,”
The New York Times
, May 13, 1985.
5
Basically I wanted to have:
Quoted in Michael Henry, “Clint Eastwood, on ‘Pale Rider.’ ” Interview included in Cannes Press Kit, April 1, 1995.
6
I guess maybe I felt:
Ibid.
7
contemporary and remembered:
Michael Wilmington, “Westerns Return on a ‘Pale Rider,’ ”
Los Angeles Times
, June 28, 1985.
8
very much the obliging:
Quoted in Rachel Abromowitz, “The Best Little Girl in Town,”
Premiere
, July 1995.
9
We’re very close friends:
Quoted in Ansen, “American Icon,”
Newsweek
, July 22, 1985.
10
appendage:
Nancy Mills, “Locke Exercises Control over ‘Ratboy,’ Her Career,” Los Angeles
Times
, August 19, 1986.
11
It’s all my fault:
Quoted in Mills, “Locke Exercises Control.”
12
If you don’t tell me:
Quoted in interview with Eileen Padberg, March 15, 1996. All subsequent quotations from her are drawn from the same source.
13
to be an officer:
Mark Stein, “Campaigning with Clint,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, March 30, 1986.
14
My interests are in Carmel:
Ibid.
15
If you’ve read:
Paul A. Witteman, “Go Ahead, Voters, Make My Day,”
Time
, April 7, 1986.
16
At first it was funny:
Stein, “Campaigning.”
17
I understand the bus tour:
Robert Lindsey, “Eastwood Marks Landslide Victory,”
The New York Times
, April 10, 1986.
18
I thought I could come up:
Paul A. Witteman, “No More Baby Kissing,”
Time
, April 6, 1987.