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Absolute Power
Joe Kid
Unforgiven
Any Which Way you can.. I named my dog right turn Clyde.
Paint Your Wagon.. I still get a kick watching Eastwood and Lee Marvin in a musical.

Forgot about paint yer Wagon! Love that one too.....

"I was born under a wonderin star...."

Great Tune.

Ha ! I as going to say "Paint Your Wagon."

I havnt seen that movie in over twenty years. Im too scared to watch it now in case its no good now Im older.

Paint your wagon, and come along...

It's still just as good!

Seafire: I got to rub shoulders with quite a number of Hollywood types during my 29 year carreer on the Seattle Police Department.
Two of my favorites were John Wayne and Gerald McRaney! Both great outdoorsmen and not the least bit aloof!
Speaking of aloof - I had occassion to be on the personal protection squad for Yul Brynner when he was in Seattle doing stage performances of "The King & I".
What a DORK!
Standing orders from him, for our squad, was to turn away from Mr. Brynner whenever he walked past and never make eye contact with him!
Let alone talk to him!
Mr. Wayne was quite the opposite and for weeks he went out of his way to speak with and be friendly with the boys in blue providing for his security!
Indeed one of the guys in blue became a life long chess playing partner with Mr. Wayne!
At the "wrap party" for the Seattle made movie "McQ" (which tragically I was not able to attend) Mr. John Wayne went around to each uniformed officer and gave them a Buck folding knife that he personally had bought (in fact he bought out the supply of them at the then original Eddie Bauer Store!) and shook their hand!
Other friendly Hollywood types that I had the pleasure of working security for were Tom Hanks (what a splendid and truly funny person he is!), Sylvester Stallone, Meg Ryan, Nick Nolte, Martin Short and on and on.
My closest encounter with a "star" though occurred when I was about 9 years old! I was a beginning swimmer and my friends were goading me into jumping off of the high dive! Well at this swimming hole you had to be able to swim the length of the roped off swim area twice, and I had not yet qualified!
I and my friends waited until the handsome young male lifeguard was pre-occupied with a gaggle of scantily clad teenybobbers and I snuck up to the high dive for the first time and "jumped" in!
Well I did not have a successful landing and I was in the process of choking to death on ingested water when said lifeguard dove in and saved my skinny butt!
I will never forget his face as he did the old style elbow lift type rescuscitation on me - it was Clint Eastwood!
He not only was a lifeguard for a short time in my hometown but he worked at Pacific Car & Foundry there for a short time. My father worked there at the time.
Yep Clint Eastwood is a talented man, great actor and an accomplished director - I enjoyed all his movies and especially liked "White Hunter - Black Heart"!
I don't know why?
Maybe it was the double Rifles and the insights into Hollywood types?
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VarmintGuy

Cool story.

Kind of funny that Yul Brenner did not want anyone to look at him. I have not seen anything he was in and could not pick him form Adam in a two person line up. Maybe if we could look at him it would be different

Tom

Tzone: Yul Brynner was in a lot of movies including "The Magnificient Seven" and "The Ten Commandments" etc.
He won an Oscar for the film version of The King & I.
And he was born in Russia so maybe he did not know how to handle success?
Maybe you remember the TV commercials where Yul Brynner begged folks "Just don't smoke"! - he had died of lung cancer and wanted the commercial ran only after his death. It ran a long time on TV IIRC.
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VarmintGuy

Gerald McRaney is one of the only two stars I wouldn't mind meeting-the other is Tom Selleck.Both seem very down to earth and both enjoy my favorite passtimes-McRaney hunting,Selleck gun collecting.

I'll never forget an interview with Tom Selleck on David Letterman around 10-15 years ago.Dave had talked to him in a previous interview about where he lived.Selleck said he lived on an avacado farm in California.Dave asked him if he liked avacados,and Selleck said he had never eaten one.So for the next interview,Dave had someone bring out an avacado for Tom to try.He took a bite,and Dave asked what he thought.Selleck looked at him and said,"These things taste awful!" LOL

WB.

WheelchairBandit: I was up at the Westley/Richards high end Gunshop in Bozeman, Montana a couple months ago. I was perusing everything in the store from the fine custom "double Rifles" to the excellent variety of rare Hunting books when I came across an "item" with a large hanging tag on the "rack".
The tag said "hold for Tom Selleck".
I inquired of the proprietor if the tag was for the actor Tom Selleck and he replied yes he's one of our valued customers!
I too would also like to meet him someday.
Personally I never start conversations with the Hollywood types but once they say something to me, I gleefully engage with them!
I only wish I would have asked Mr. John Wayne for his autograph instead of just conversing with him back when I was working around him!
I worked with a fellow for many years sometime back. He and his wife would take a 2 week vacation to Hawaii every year. He would scuba dive and snorkel in the afternoons and his wife would go sit in their rental car outside Tom Sellecks island home during her husbands swim times!
She not only had an admiration for Mr. Selleck it was bordering on fanaticism! Anyway she would sit there for a couple of hours each day hoping to get a glimpse of him!
Now this was an otherwise normal/sane woman - yet she would "waste away" much of her vacation time hoping for a "chance" encounter with her favorite Hollywood type.
Thankfully I only have just a touch of what she had (star envy?).
You know another Oscar winner I got to rub shoulders with was Charlton Heston.
Back in 1997 I was asked to work on the security detail of the N.R.A. Annual Meeting and Convention. Mr. Heston was most gracious and very approachable and engaging throughout that week (during the convention and during the annual meeting).
May he rest in peace!
A true gentle man he was.
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VarmintGuy

I think Outlaw Josie Wales is one of my favorites.

The Dirty Harry Cop movies were OK as well as the Fistful of Dollars movies.

Play Misty for me was scary..;) and I don't scare easily..:)

In the Line of Fire where he played the aging Secret Service Agent wasn't bad either..

"Old agent with questionable social skills"...was an unforgettable line..:0

Firefox was good..but weak in spots..

Never was quite as appreciative of the 'Any Which Way But Loose' movies..tho they were funny.Don't like his former wife and co star..the blonde girl..with the cold eyes..can't recall her name right now tho..:)

Heartbreak Ridge wasn't too bad..but a bit contrived and about Grenada?..:(

Haven't seen the one with him & Morgan Freeman where he has a gal prize fighter.

I watched the Outlaw Josie Wales last night and what made me laugh the most was when Josie would spit his chewing tobacco on the men he had just killed or the dog.

Don't forget the classic Magnum Force. The famous line, " A man has got to know his limitations."

Kelly's Heroes

Damn !!! I enjoy western movies for at least 28 years and I'm sure I've never seen Joe Kidd shown on TV. Why ????