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To: Neeka who wrote (17911)5/7/2024 10:17:59 AM
From: Tom Clarke
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Great list, good to see Barry Lyndon there. Not to include The Outlaw Josey Wales is an oversight to be sure, might be the best movie of all time.


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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (17912)5/7/2024 5:28:33 PM
From: Neeka
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We watched Spartacus last weekend. Now we're on Barry Lyndon.

I'd like to see Josey Wales again, and because it's over 2 hours long, it does qualify as an "epic film."

I wish we all knew what happened to Clint. He hasn't been seen in several months.

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To: Neeka who wrote (17913)5/8/2024 12:10:15 PM
From: Tom Clarke
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Been awhile since I've seen Barry Lyndon, due for a re-watch...Eastwood appeared in public last month, looking "frail, but spirited"

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Good to see Amazon Prime has picked up the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies. Really enjoyed this a few years ago, will definitely re-watch. GREAT series.


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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (17914)5/10/2024 11:22:21 AM
From: Neeka
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We started "The Irishman" last night and couldn't take the constant piano riff in the background. It went on and on and never stopped. Very distracting and annoying. Because of that, we're not going to finish the movie.

Glad to hear Clint is alive and well. He made a lot of very astute real estate purchases in the Carmel/Mendocino area back in the day, and owns several homes up and down the Cali coast, in the desert and in HI. His kids are going to be instant multi-millionaires when he passes.

Evidently he was quite the philanderer in his youth. He winked at me when I was in a food line at lunchtime on Highlands Mt in Aspen…I was only 20.

I've loved him ever since, but I'm sure glad I didn't wink back. ;)

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To: Neeka who wrote (17915)5/10/2024 12:15:40 PM
From: J.B.C.
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Oh come on, sometimes ya gotta live a little ;)

Jim

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To: Neeka who wrote (17915)5/10/2024 3:17:51 PM
From: Tom Clarke
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I read the book that is based on. I think the author has solved the Jimmy Hoffa case. He has some detractors, but he makes a compelling argument. He's a former prosecutor, I don't think he would arrive at his conclusion lightly.
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I hope you at least smiled back when Clint winked. :)

I had a brush with Hollywood when Candice Bergen patted me on the head and said "what a cute little boy." I don't remember it, I was four. That's what my mom tells me.

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To: Neeka who wrote (17915)5/10/2024 7:22:02 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round
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> Evidently he was quite the philanderer in his youth.

At last count, Clint Eastwood has 8 kids by 6 different women, at least officially, so I believe you!

He reportedly refuses to confirm his exact number of offspring. Even his biographer has stated the number is "indeterminate."

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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (17918)5/12/2024 12:47:50 AM
From: Neeka
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It was confirmed he was the father of a young girl, who discovered she was his daughter during a genealogy search. Up to that point, he hadn't known she existed. I believe he also found out years later that a woman he'd had an affair with, gave birth to his child and never told him, so it could be 10?

Eastwood was very astute. He and James Garner together bought several hundred acres of land in Carmel back in the late '50s. They each also bought themselves homes on huge parcels of land in the Monterey/Carmel area. Eastwood continued to invest in local real estate for years, at times buying hundreds of acre parcels at a time. There were some donations of property made to various entities along the way, preserving that part of the Cali coast for eternity.

If he'd not gone into acting, he'd still have come out of it all a multibillionaire.

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (17917)5/12/2024 12:52:57 AM
From: Neeka
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Somewhere I had seen a documentary about Hoffa and in that doc they played the part from the movie where he's kidnapped from the diner, so I did see how it played out....at least in the eyes of the author. Just sorry the constant musical score was so distracting we couldn't finish the movie.

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To: J.B.C. who wrote (17916)5/12/2024 12:54:20 AM
From: Neeka
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I knew what kind of cad he was even then. Besides, he was born the same year as my Mother.

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