Time has vindicated him

EASTWOOD IS GOD

 Conner “Haf“ MacLeod

 Temple City, Calif.

IN A WORLD WHERE A SINGLE ARTISTS Vision is increasingly blurred in a storm of art-by-committee, it is refreshing to read about Clint Eastwood [“Any Which Way He Can,“ April]. Time has vindicated him

for sticking by his guns and for his vision of himself as an artist. He doesn’t even stoop to telling his critics, “I told you so !" He lets the results do that for him. Let`s hope we all see a lot more of him before he

decides to ride off into the sunset.

 Bart Summer

 North Hollywood, Calif.

IT IS REALLY AMAZING THAT TWENTY YEARS ago, most critics viewed Eastwood's acting as stiff and hopelessly wooden and his films as incessantly violcent exercises of redneck fascism. Now the same intellectually constipated, artistically myopic sycophants have anointed him the new god of American cinema. Thanks for taking decades to find out what his fans have known all along: Eastwood is a major talent to be reckoned with.

R. D. Myers

Kansas City, Mo.

PREMIERE JULY 1993

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