Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Chronology xxiii
Filmography xxxi
No Tumbleweed Ties for Clint Rex Reed / 1971 3
Eastwood on Eastwood Stuart M. Kaminsky / 1971 7
Eastwood Direction Richard Thompson Tim Hunter / 1976-77 20
Director Clint Eastwood: Attention to Detail and Involvement for the Audience Ric Gentry / 1980 40
Eastwood: An Auteur to Reckon With Charles Champlin / 1981 53
Cop on a Hot Tightrope David Thomson / 1984 57
"Whether I Succeed or Fail, I Don't Want to Owe It to Anyone but Myself": From Play Misty for Me to Honkytonk Man Michael Henry Wilson / 1984 72
Clint Eastwood: The Rolling Stone Interview Tim Cahill / 1985 93
Eastwood on Eastwood Christopher Frayling / ca. 1985 106
Flight of Fancy Nat Hentoff / 1988 112
Interview with Clint Eastwood Michel Ciment / 1990 119
Interview with Clint Eastwood Thierry Jousse Camille Nevers / 1992 131
Any Which Way He Can Peter Biskind / 1993 142
America on the Brink of the Void Henri Béhar / 1993 156
Q & A with a Western Icon Jerry Roberts / 1995 163
"Truth, Like Art, Is in the Eyes of the Beholder": Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The Bridges of Madison County Michael Henry Wilson / 1998 168
A Conversation with Clint Eastwood about Mystic River Charlie Rose / 2003 178
Mystic River: Eastwood, without Anger or Forgiveness Samuel Blumenfeld / 2003 189
Staying Power Amy Taubin / 2005 193
Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima Terry Gross / 2007 206
The Quiet American Geoff Andrew / 2008 219
Do You Feel Lucky, Monk? Nick Tosches / 2008 226
Clint Eastwood, America's Director: The Searcher Scott Foundas / 2008 23
Eastwood on the Pitch: At Seventy-Nine, Clint Tackles Mandela in Invictus Scott Foundas / 2009 234
Interview with Clint Eastwood: First, Believe in Yourself Michael Henry Wilson / 2010 245
With J. Edgar, Eastwood Again Flexes His Freedom Scott Bowles / 2011 252
For Further Reading 257
Index 259
