Conversations with Clint
Subtitle: Paul Nelson's lost interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979 to 1983
By: by Kevin Avery
Contributors: Nelson, Paul, 1936-2006
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group; Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781441165862
Subjects: Interviews
Description: Clint Eastwood has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer. These newly discovered conversations with legendary journalist Paul Nelson return us to a point when, still acting in other people's films, Eastwood was honing his directorial craft on a series of inexpensive films that he brought in under budget and ahead of schedule. Operating largely beneath the critical radar, he made his movies swiftly and inexpensively. Few of his critics then could have predicted that Eastwood the actor and director would ever be taken as seriously as he is today. But Paul Nelson did. The interviews were conducted from 1979 through 1983. Eastwood talks openly and without illusions about his early career as an actor, old Hollywood, and his formative years as a director, his influence and what he learned along the way as an actor - lessons that helped him become the director he is today. Conversations with Clint provides a fresh and vivid perspective on the life and work of this most American of movie icons.
Notes: Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The good, the bad; title: The telephone call; title: January 1983; title: The conversations; title: October 1979 to October 1983; title: Flashback; title: December 1979; title: Afterword.