Rumor has it that Clint Eastwood apparently thought the most opportune time to begin live read-throughs of his one-man show -- "Crazy Uncle Liberty Reads His Emails From The Internets!" -- was onstage, during prime-time on the biggest night of Willard Romney's political life.
Rumor also has it that, in exchange for Mr. Eastwood's addled, meandering "endorsement", Team Romney has agreed to change its campaign slogan to "Deserve's Got Nothing To Do With It."
So while I must admit to a nostalgic preference for Mr. Stacy Keach's original interpretation of this material,
bravo to you, Mr. Eastwood, for giving him a long, rambling, incoherent run for his money.
Yesterday, upon a chair
Clint met a man who wasn’t there
How sad it is that Rowdy Yates
Has ended up as Orly Taitz...
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Poor Clint.
Guess he wasn't feeling lucky.
Punked!
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It did have a certain "heyyoukidsgettouttamydamnyard" quality, didn't it?
That was so horrible I bailed a few minutes in. However, as a performer, I had to say the man perfectly captured the delusional, nasty, humorless, and petulant attitude of the Republican Party of 2012.
Except I don't think this was a brilliant performance piece. That's the sad part.
Best Clint takedown of all, Drifty.
I'm just glad that Clint was prevailed upon to leave the orangutan offstage.
I'm just glad that Clint was prevailed upon to leave the orangutan offstage.
Clint actually has a long history of talking to wood: http://youtu.be/nn8YubD01sk
But it never listens to him.
Clint should have remembered his best line from 'Magnum Force', 'A man's got to know his limitations'.
All of this must be so confusing to Dirty Harry. Remember when he got in so much trouble with the his buddies for making that original commercial for the comeback of the auto industry ..or Ram trucks...otherwise known as "the big shiny penis you wish you had".
I bet this was supposed to be some kind of retribution for that inadvertent faux paux..."Come on Clint..you've got to do it, after that commercial, people might think you are supporting the Negro!!"
I wonder if he has talked to the only black person he has starred with, who wasn't on the receiving end of his gun...Morgan Freeman.
Probably not, or if he did, he asked him something like "Son, should I lay up on this hole or go with the 5 iron...."
Obama campaign's response:
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/241392153148915712/photo/1
Heh.
Among all the obligatory 'legend - body of work' prefaces, has anyone bothered to point out what a strong current of shallow, phony-macho, self-serving twaddle flows through said opus?
Go back and look at _High Plains Drifter_, will ya? "Come here bitch, I'm gonna rape you as part of my fee for cleaning up this town. Oh and let's spit on the midget and throw him across the bar or something, use him as a prop - for my feet - that's always good for some laughs."
Eastwood's a complex character, and I like some of his work myself. But there's also a really nasty right-wing streak throughout - the 'rugged loner' killing the stereotyped bad guys in the most ego-gratifying way - to himself and, vicariously, to his audience. The fact that the rest of "action-adventure" Hollywood does it constantly as well is really no excuse.
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