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Clint Eastwood: The Man Behind the Squint
The Man Who Swam to Shore In the autumn of 1951, a twenty-one-year-old hitchhiker in a Navy uniform boarded a torpedo bomber at Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, catching a ride south to visit his parents. Somewhere off Point Reyes, California, the plane ran out of fuel and ditched into the Pacific. The…
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Do You Feel Lucky? How Clint Eastwood Made Dirty Harry
The Script Nobody Wanted Every legend has a before. Before Clint Eastwood squinted into a San Francisco dawn and asked a bleeding bank robber the most famous question in movie history, Dirty Harry was a script called Dead Right — and nobody in Hollywood would touch it. Husband-and-wife writers Harry Julian Fink and Rita M.…