Ruth Gordon swears, Clyde the Orangutan drinks beer and flips the bird and Clint Eastwood beats up fat old men, sometimes in motorcycle gang-sized groups, in an iconic blockbuster that, honestly, isn't that great.
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In 1980, natural treasure Clint Eastwood made a second movie pairing him with an alcoholic, horny ape that was quite poor, if not quite as egregiously terrible as its predecessor.
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Kevin Spacey’s real-life fall from grace only makes Clint Eastwood’s cartoonishly Southern 1997 literary adaptation Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil even more of a fascinating, problematic mess.
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In the latest round up of succinct selections from The Fractured Mirror, my upcoming book on American movies about the film industry I write about Goodbye, Norma Jean, Hollywood Man, I’ll Do Anything, Myra Breckinridge, Susan Slept Here and White Hunter, Black Heart
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Despite what you may have seen or read, Clint Eastwood is not going on TV to gush about the amazing new boner pills he’s on, and neither are Chuck Norris, Tim Allen or any number of unwitting fake pitchmen.
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Like many great filmmakers, Michael Cimino’s debut, 1974’s Thunderbolt and Lightning was a dazzling achievement featuring two of stars Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges’ best performances while his final film, 1996’s Sunchaser, is a real stinkeroo.
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Why do I do this to myself?
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Sassy simians! Schlitz for the President! Join Boner, Stinker, Rascal, Jumbo & more for Mike Sacks' surreal meditation on late 1970s hairy masculinity and the weird, myopic magic of our childhood memories and dreams.
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The shocking popularity of 1978's Every Which Way But Loose inspires a reverie on why some movies explode in popularity, only to be forgotten or laughed at by posterity.
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