reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (09/10/84)
In response to: steven@ism70.UUCP
I agree with most of what you have to say about Eastwood as a director and
producer. I'm not quite as enthusiastic about "Tightrope" as you (though,
if constrained to a four star system, I'd give it three, also). Hard to
believe that Eastwood gave Michael Cimino his first big break. I guess
Cimino changed a lot since then.
I know that Newman directed himself in "Sometimes a Great Notion", but
I thought that all of his other directorial projects featured his wife,
not himself. Reynolds directed "The End" and "Sharkey's Machine", but I
don't remember any others. Eastwood seems to be the only one of the three
who is consistently interested in directing himself. Significantly, the
only one of his directorial efforts which did not star him was a bomb.
Sort of reminds me of Chaplin and "A Woman of Paris" and Woody Allen and
"Interiors". I wonder if these are all coincidences, or whether there was
something in these directors' makeups that brought out their best work only
when they were in front of the camera?
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Peter Reiher
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