HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT.
When you read this, perhaps you'll pop in and say hello!! ha ha
If he does stop in, looking for more folks to come to his birthday party, Please give us a call, we are only about an hour from Carmel ! 
Chester 
and the Mrs. 
Another Dirty Harry Movie?
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It's a pity they never made a movie together but I guess Clint was too offended by Duke's criticism of High Plains Drifter.
Could be, thought I've never have heard any comments by Clint that would substanciate that. Chances are, their careers were like two ocean liners crossing the sea, pretty hard to turn to meet, each with different things on their plates every day.
Chester
I think that Eastwood the director of Gran Torino owes quite a debt to Duke and Don Siegel's The Shootist. Did anyone else note the similarities between the two?
Gorch,
Yeah . . . we sure did! Check out the discussion here (and feel free to add your comments).
Chester
Display MoreHi everyone,
Some news worth reading .(from Reuters)
" Most Americans watch their favourite shows on a TV set,
and given a choice more would prefer to star in a Clint Eastwood western than a romantic comedy with George Clooney, according to an online poll.
Nearly 70 percent of adults questioned in the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair survey said they watch TV when the programmes run in their usual time slots but 20 percent admitted to using a DVR or TiVO."
How about you Americans?
Taka
Taka,
Where we live, if you don't subscribe to cable, you don't have anything to watch on TV except video tapes or DVD. We chose a number of years ago to discontinue cable service because we felt that what we were paying for was NOT worth it. Too much garbage, too little worthwhile content, and they wanted too much money for it.
That being said, our family is not entirely out of the loop concerning current TV shows. We have found that we are able to watch some things on the Internet, within a day or two of it showing on television. We will be watching the new season of 24 and Castle online, and have also watched such shows as Monk; our adult children have been watching The Office for a few years now, as well as shows such as House. Of course, we can't discuss the show the day after it originally airs because we will be behind a day or two, but that is the same as recording it to watch at our convenience. Also, there seem to be fewer commercials (we watch on Hulu, which has some ads). So . . . in answer to your question, we watch some of our favorite shows on the TV set, via DVDs and VHS tapes. We watch current "TV" show favorites on our computer.
As to the second question - Clint Eastwood hands down! While I've enjoyed George Clooney in the Ocean's movies and O Brother, Where Art Thou, we are too ideologically different for me to want to spend very much time with him. Anyway, I'd rather be in a Western than a romantic movie!
Chester
While I remember Clint Eastwood as a favorite in Rawhide, in 1971 Dirty Harry came out and in my mind, truly propelled him into star status. I was living in Alameda at the time (that island city across the bay from San Francisco). During the filming, Clint was staying in a luxury condo near the beach on the south shore of Alameda. Just after the movie came out, my neighbor, who was a policeman for the city of Alameda, was driving through town in his police cruiser and pulled up to a stop light, and there was Clint Eastwood looking at him from the next car over. The neighbor gave him a 
and a smile, and the smile was returned. He shared that story with me the next day. What a memory!
Chester
