And regarding *why* Clint's movies as a director tend to be good, a TM friend who had grown up with Clint told me an interesting story about him. He started as a handsome TV cowboy, on "Rawhide." But even then he realized that the career lifespan of a handsome TV cowboy was not what he wanted to settle for, so he spent every minute that he wasn't in front of the cameras *behind* the cameras, going around and talking to everyone on the set, finding out how they did their jobs and what made them good at it. He basically edu- cated himself in filmmaking.
To this day, they say that a Clint-directed movie is one of the most "bankable" in the business because he never goes a day over schedule or a dollar over budget. He is famous for having the tightest crews in the biz, because he knows what he's looking for in a cinematog- rapher or a gaffer or a lighting technician and hires the best, and knows how to talk to them to get the effects and the results he's looking for. I always liked this story, because it says a lot about the man behind the icon. He's humble, willing to learn, not afraid to mix with the "common folk" and learn from them, and he has goals in life and does what is neces- sary -- *whatever* is necessary -- to achieve them. I ran into him once in his bar in Carmel, years after the incident at Maharishi's hotel door. He was sitting in with the jazz band at the bar, playing piano and laughing with all the customers. I walked over to say hi and he not only remembered me and the sock incident, he remembered my name. It had been probably twenty years at that point since he had seen me, a few times in one day, when I was in a menial position driving him around or standing at the door of a hotel room. Since the tendency to self-educate and treat everyone as equals obviously predates his involvement with TM, I don't ascribe his success to meditating, merely to being an interesting guy who walks the walk of his life with almost as much style as his onscreen characters do. Unc > > > And what great contributions to society have you made > > > lately, Jim. > > > >Other than that I appreciate his practice of TM and > > > some of his movies > > > have been OK. > > > > Mighty white of you Jim. > > > the guy is a national icon. He just won oscars for > > > Million Dollar Baby. He has starred in and directed > > > dozens of flicks. And "some of his movies have been > > > OK". > > > Do i detect a note of jealousy? Nahhhhh. couldnt be. > > > must be my imagination > > > steve > > > > He has justly earned a good reputation as a movie actor, producer > > and director. Some of his movies have been OK. I've enjoyed many of > > them. He is far more talented in that area than I ever will be. > > > > I didn't mean to sound jealous of him. I'm not. perhaps because > when > > he was hungrier, he struck me as more a man of the people. Now he > is > > more just another rich republican. > *********** > > Regarding your comments on Eastwood's practice of TM, when he was > interviewed by David Frost 10 (?) years ago, Clint said something > along the lines that he was only an occasional meditator, but that he > got some good ideas once in a while when he did do TM. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
