18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Clint Eastwood: Tough guy, difficult subject
In the introduction to 'Clint: The Man and the Movies,' Shawn Levy sets out to differentiate his book from previous biographies of Clint Eastwood. The first he mentions, Richard Schickel's 'Clint Eastwood: A Biography' (1996), is, according to Levy, 'a gentlemanly, even fawning account' that can be 'awkwardly dismissive and forgiving' of Eastwood's more odious behavior. The second, Patrick McGilligan's 'Clint: The Life and Legend' (1999), is 'overly harsh,' as it 'thoroughly chronicles every misstep and flaw' in its subject's work and private life. Levy writes that he aims to land his enterprise on a 'middle ground' of 'neither acquiescence nor denigration.'
