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Clint The Icon of a Generation

by | Feb 14, 2012 | Western Movies

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Clint Eastwood is a mystery. He’s been a cowboy, a cop, a National Geographic photojournalist, a clown, a honky-tonk singer, a jazz DJ and a moonlighting hit man who doubled as an art professor. But these are roles. Who Eastwood truly is is an actor, a director, a jazz player, a family man and, briefly, a mayor. On either side, Eastwood is the King of Cool. Even while Dirty Harry took out his mighty .44 magnum, three-pound hog leg and offered to blow the bad guy’s head clean off, he


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