The company's first feature release was Hang 'Em High Mentioned on T. Sheppard 's hit single "Make My Day," which in the first half of reached 12 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart and also reached 62 on that magazine's Hot singles survey. Dina admitted that she'd seen "zero" of his movies. The pair didn't start dating right away since Clint was expecting a baby with Frances Fisher.
In February , Clint made his first public appearance with Dina at a golf tournament, without ever announcing that he and Frances had broken up. Is 35 years older than ex-wife Dina Eastwood. Dina's parents were 19 and 21 when she was born. This makes Clint 16 years older than his former mother-in-law and 14 years older than his former father-in-law. Ex-brother-in-law of Dominic V. Their daughter Kimber Eastwood was born in as Kimber Tunis. Following Kimber's birth, Eastwood asked then-wife Maggie Johnson for a divorce.
But within a matter of weeks afterward, Johnson fell very ill with hepatitis and had to be hospitalized. The pair reconciled, agreeing that it would be best if she turned a blind eye to his existing families he also had a child in from a different affair , and in , almost 15 years after they married, their first child together was born. Johnson was finally introduced to Tunis in , outside Eastwood's presence, by a crew member on the set of Breezy The affair between Eastwood and Tunis is believed to have dissolved in the mid-seventies, around the time he and Sondra Locke got together.
Tunis later appeared as an extra in Every Which Way but Loose as a member of the audience at LA's Palomino country-western club where Locke's character sings, but Eastwood didn't tell Locke about Kimber until She thought it was cruel that he admitted he was Kimber's father but never treated her accordingly. Eastwood's two children from liaisons with Jacelyn Reeves were given their mother's last name. No father is listed on either of their birth certificates.
He has always disliked the reading of political and social agendas in his films, which has occurred from Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby He has always maintained that all of his films are apolitical and what he has in mind when making a film is whether it's going to be entertaining and compelling.
Has been named to Quigley Publications' annual Top 10 Poll of Money-Making Stars 21 times, making him 2 all-time for appearances in the top 10 list.
Only John Wayne , with 25 appearances in the Top 10, has more. Eastwood, who first appeared in the Top Ten at 5 in , finished 2 to Wayne at the box office in after finishing 2 to Paul Newman in After his first two consecutive 1 appearances in and , he dropped back to 2 in , trailing Robert Redford at the box office.
Clint was again 2 in , and topped by Burt Reynolds all three years , before leading the charts in and ' He last topped the poll in Was named the top box-office star of and again in by the Motion Picture Herald, based on an annual poll of exhibitors as to the drawing power of movie stars at the box-office, conducted by Quigley Publications.
All four other nominees portrayed real people in their respective films. Ruddy , the producer of The Godfather Was named the 1 top money-making star at the box office in Quigley Publications' annual poll of movie exhibitors five times between and Bing Crosby , Burt Reynolds and Tom Hanks also have been named 1 five times, while Tom Cruise holds the record for being named 1 six times.
She sought the additional money as punitive damages, claiming malice on Eastwood's part. The case went to court in July , but a judge refused to grant the damages.
Received an honorary Doctorate from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Wesleyan is also home to his personal archives.
Clint participated in this every year from and is the longest running participant. He now serves as Host. In early he announced that he would supply the voice for a "Dirty Harry" video game. However, the game ended up getting canceled in Lippman and Walter Becker in According to Lippman, "I had to terminate three pretty good waitresses in the first few months of operation; not because they went to bed with Clint Eastwood, but because they either talked about it all over the premises, or came in the next day acting like they owned the place.
Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info He stood at 6'4" at his peak, but due to recent back problems, he can only stretch up to 6'2". The boots that he wore in Unforgiven are the same ones he wore in the TV series Rawhide In essence these boots have book-ended his career in the Western genre. As a director, he has always refused to test screen his films before their release.
He objected to the end of Dirty Harry when Harry throws his badge away after killing the Scorpio Killer, arguing with director Don Siegel that Harry knew that being a policeman was the only work for which he was suited.
Siegel eventually convinced Eastwood that Harry threw his badge away as a symbol that he had lost faith in the justice system. He was a contract player at Universal International in the mids. He and a younger actor named Burt Reynolds were released from their contracts and left the studio on the same day.
They were both fired by the same director. Eastwood was fired when the director didn't want to use him in a movie because of the wart above his top lip. Reynolds, who was serving as a stunt man, was fired after he shoved the director into a water tank during an argument over how to do a stunt fall. After the crowd laughed, Eastwood said, "I mean it.
Eastwood's comments in the lighthearted spirit in which they were given. Took acting class from Michael Chekhov in Hollywood. Has ruled out the possibility of playing Dirty Harry again, saying he has "outgrown him age-wise. At a press conference for his movie Mystic River , Eastwood condemned the Iraq war as a "big mistake" and defended Sean Penn 's visit to Baghdad, saying he might have done the same thing but for his age.
Eastwood declined an offer from President George Bush to campaign for him in the Presidential election. He told an interviewer the next year, "I think what the ultra-right wing conservatives did to the Republicans is really self-destructive, absolutely stupid.
Was neighbors and best friends with William R. Thompkins for roughly a decade, but in he banished Thompkins from his life, offering no explanation. Thompkins died in a car crash in Is a patron of the arts, notably as an avid collector of western art.
His "Fistful" mannerisms was imitated in Canada, by the Tim Horton's restaurant chain, to promote the Southwest chicken sub. Claims to have been an early choice for the title role in Superman Whenever asked if he would do a Dirty Harry 6, he often joked that he can imagine Dirty Harry now long retired, and fly-fishing with his.
Voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California in and The producers of Dirty Harry originally didn't want Eastwood, since they felt he was too young at He last played Harry Callahan aged 58 in The Dead Pool , which was only a year older than the character was supposed to be in the first film according to the original screenplay.
William Friedkin offered him the lead in Sorcerer , but Eastwood didn't want to travel anywhere at that time. Jack Nicholson turned the film down for the same reason. Mentioned in theme song in The Adventures of George the Projectionist Learned mountain climbing for The Eiger Sanction because he felt the scenes were too dangerous for him to pay a stuntman to do for him.
He was the last climber up The Totem Pole in Monument Valley, and as part of the contract, the movie crew removed the pitons left by decades of other climbers. The scene where he was hanging off the mountain by a single rope was actually Eastwood, and not a stuntman. An accomplished jazz pianist, he performs much of the music for his movies, including the scene in the bar in In the Line of Fire California Gov.
He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. William Goldman said of Eastwood that he was the only person to be a star in the '70s, '80s and '90s. By "star" Goldman means Variety's list of top ten actors of the decade. Sondra Locke wrote an autobiography titled "The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly", chronicling her troubled relationship with him.
Former longtime companion Sondra Locke filed a palimony suit when the couple split. The settlement included a West Hollywood home, financial payments and a contract with Warner Bros. Though he often smokes in his movies, he is a lifelong non-smoker offscreen. Although he can handle pistols with either hand equally well, he is left-eye dominant, evident when he shoots a rifle as in Joe Kidd or Unforgiven , but is right handed, as seen when he wears or handles one pistol.
He and Burt Reynolds had major influences on each other's careers. It was he who sent a copy of "Sharky's Machine" to Reynolds, which gave Reynolds the idea to turn the novel into a movie, Sharky's Machine , which went on to garner excellent reviews. Although press coverage was generally favorable, a small contingent insisted that Eastwood was a spoiled brat mayor and the town acted just like an indulgent parent. He brought a lot of notoriety that we didn't need," said Jane Mayer, president of the Carmel Residents Association.
He didn't know anything about the issues. People are giving him credit for things that were on the table for years. He also hired a public relations woman and kept an unlisted phone number - he was totally inaccessible.
I don't think that's being a good mayor. Sondra Locke , Eastwood's cohabiting partner at the time, later said that she "knew he wasn't the dedicated mayor he pretended to be. Turned down the role of Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now because he found the storyline "too dark. He was flattered, but declined, saying that Bond should be played by an English actor.
Has a younger sister named Jeanne Bernhardt b. Owns a hillside mansion in Sun Valley, Idaho and a beachfront estate in Maui. Generally, however, Eastwood preferred unknown women he would not later accidentally meet.
In his early 40s, he developed a habit of picking up young ladies from the Carmel tourist shops for encounters in his truck, usually parking it on Dolores Street. Practices transcendental meditation twice a day, and said in that he has been meditating for the past 40 years.
Father was Clinton Eastwood Sr. Stepfather, after his widowed mother remarried in , was John Belden Wood , a lumber executive. He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts on February 25, for his services and contributions to the arts. Declined to have a party for his 80th birthday, explaining that at his age he doesn't like birthday parties for himself.
He said his only plans to celebrate the occasion would be to go out for a drink with his wife. The genesis of his production company, Malpaso Productions, had a curious origin. When Italian director Sergio Leone approached Eastwood about appearing in what would become the "Spaghetti Western" trilogy-- A Fistful of Dollars , For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly --Eastwood was eager to take it but was advised against it by his agent, suggesting it would be a "bad move" mal paso.
Against all advice, the actor went ahead and accepted the "man with no name" role and his decision turned out to be a "good move".
Eastwood never forgot the irony of the situation and adopted "Malpaso" as his production company name. The idea was reportedly scrapped due to scheduling conflicts with other films, although some rumors state they declined when they heard that their characters were going to be killed off by Charles Bronson 's character in the first five minutes.
Havens Elementary School, all located within a short distance of each other in Oakland and Piedmont. He was held back due to poor academic scores, but in at least one case, delinquent behavior was the reason he left one school to enroll in another. Eastwood was asked to leave Piedmont High for writing an obscene suggestion to a school official on the athletic field scoreboard, and burying someone in effigy on the school lawn, on top of other school infractions.
He transferred to Oakland Technical High School, scheduled to graduate in January as a midyear graduate, although it is not clear if he ever did. Served as President of the Cannes Jury when Pulp Fiction won but the film was not his personal choice: "On the jury here when 'Pulp Fiction' won, somebody said, 'Oh, Clint Eastwood was on the jury, so he voted for the American film.
Five of his movies were nominated for AFI's Years Eastwood turned it down and recommended Tommy Lee Jones , who went on to receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance. He was going to play the villain Two-Face on the Batman TV series, but the show was canceled before the episode began shooting.
Although he has been associated with violence throughout his career, he personally detests it and has carefully shown the horrific consequences of violence in films such as Unforgiven , A Perfect World , Absolute Power , Mystic River , Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino According to Robert Daley , the head of Warner Bros.
A former logger, steel furnace stoker and gas station attendant before becoming an actor. Directed two films concurrently in ; High Plains Drifter and Breezy Father-in-law of Stacy Poitras and Shawn Midkiff.
Attending Cannes premiere of latest film Changeling , a period thriller set in the s. The character Shane Gooseman "Goose" for short from the animated space opera The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers was based on him and his screen persona. A guest speaker at the Republican National Convention, Eastwood spent much of his speech time on a largely improvised routine addressing an empty chair representing President Barack Obama.
Morgan Freeman also appeared in both films. Had planned to star in Die Hard and originally owned the rights to the novel "Nothing Lasts Forever" on which the film is based, but opted to make The Dead Pool instead. Ex-significant other Sondra Locke was legally married to homosexual Gordon Anderson from until her death in , covering the whole time she and Eastwood were living together.
While house hunting with Locke in the late seventies, Eastwood introduced himself as "Mr. Anderson," even when he happened to be wearing a Thunderbolt and Lightfoot T-shirt. Locke recalled that the sales agents could barely keep a straight face and always looked at their feet when addressing him as such. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. Pages New York: The H. Wilson Company, Early in his career he appeared in a "B" western, Ambush at Cimarron Pass , in which he was billed third and leading lady Margia Dean was billed second.
Years later, after Eastwood had become a superstar actor and director, Dean ran into him at a social function and teased him, "Just remember, I got top billing over you".
Clint and former spouse Maggie Johnson were estranged for at least nine years and legally separated for six before she filed for divorce in May it was finalized that November. Johnson had finally decided to make the split official so she could marry Henry Wynberg , a used car salesman slightly younger than herself. The Johnson-Wynberg union ended in after four years, and in Wynberg, then 58, married a year-old.
Had a falling out with longtime associate Fritz Manes during the filming of Heartbreak Ridge Manes was fired over the telephone by Eastwood's secretary. When Manes went over to Malpaso to collect his belongings, the locks on his office had been changed and his possessions were sitting outside next to a dumpster. Once said that his wide hips were his only physical flaw, except for the chipped tooth he eventually had fixed. Hired a private detective in the early s when his company, Malpaso Productions, began to receive a series of strange, threatening letters addressed to him mailed from various California locations by someone who seemed to have inside knowledge of his life.
The trouble was, the detective had an extremely long list of possible Clint enemies and ex-girlfriends but no real clues as to who might be the culprit. After a while suspicion focused on Jane Cameron Agee , an off-and-on paramour of Eastwood's then married to actor James Brolin. Eastwood scoffed at the idea it was her and thought it might be an actress friend of ex-mistress Roxanne Tunis , seeking some kind of revenge on him.
One night he drove around the Hollywood Hills with Fritz Manes trying to find this woman's address. He tried to convince Manes that they should burgle her place, and see if the lady's typewriter matched up with the letters. Manes said no, and the vile letters eventually waxed and waned. When he was 19, he gained unwanted attention from a year-old schoolteacher who stalked him after a one-night stand and threatened to kill herself. Wanted to play Charles A. Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis and penned a letter to director Billy Wilder in October requesting to meet in person to discuss his potential eligibility for the role.
Eastwood had just done his first screen test for Universal Pictures but had yet to make his acting debut. The role ultimately went to an established star, James Stewart. On Christmas morning , his daughter Francesca Eastwood and her mother Frances Fisher narrowly escaped a fire that engulfed their rented house in North Vancouver, Canada. Francesca leaped 15 feet from a second-story window into the arms of her mother and a neighbor, and was treated at a hospital for smoke inhalation.
Frances was also treated for burns on her hands. Clint flew up to visit them in the hospital and personally thanked his daughter's rescuers. On a return air trip from a prearranged tryst in Seattle, a two-seated plane on which he was aboard ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Point Reyes.
Using a life raft, Eastwood and the pilot swam 2 miles to shore. Former father-in-law of Kirk Fox and Jordan Feldstein. Says he voted for Dwight D. Had a long-held obsession with New York Times film critic Pauline Kael because she never liked his work. After her review of The Enforcer , Clint asked a psychiatrist to do an analysis of Kael from her reviews of his past work, which he had memorized verbatim.
It concluded that Kael was actually physically attracted to Clint and because she couldn't have him she hated him. Therefore, it was some sort of vengeance, according to Clint. Was interested in the prospect of playing Hank Rearden in a cinematic adaptation of "Atlas Shrugged" that was in development by Albert S.
Ruddy in the early '70s. A slow bloomer in almost every regard, Clint was going on 19 when he left high school in an era where some students graduated at 16 , got his first big film role at age 34, waited until he turned 38 to start a family not including illegitimate unmentionables , made his directorial debut at 41, and received his first Oscar nomination when he was nearly Accounts from inside the courtroom in the fraud case brought against him by Sondra Locke noted that Eastwood spoke in a barely audible tone on the witness stand and was unable to cross-reference.
In one deposition he used the phrase "I have no records on that" 79 times. Developed his movie voice by listening to audio recordings of Marilyn Monroe. He said he'd noticed Monroe's breathy whisper and he thought it was very sexy and since it had worked so well for her, he decided he'd "do" a male version of it himself.
Has 6 residences in the state of California alone. One of them, the 1, As of late, his vehicle of choice is an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria. According to author Patrick McGilligan , in July Eastwood was confronted with the claims of a woman in her late thirties, originally from Washington State, who had researched her adoption and ascertained that he was her biological father.
After having his lawyers and business managers check her out, so the story goes, Eastwood agreed to have dinner with the woman, Laurie Murray, who was married to a rich man and was happy to guard her anonymity - she just wanted to meet him - and promised to stay in touch. In Les grands reportages: L'album secret de Clint Eastwood , McGilligan stated on camera: "We don't know how many children Clint has had with how many women.
Murray, since at least there is a rumor of unknown origin that Eastwood fathered a son named Lesly, born on 13 February to one Rosina Mary Glen. Publicly, Eastwood has neither confirmed nor denied any of these claims. Turned down The Bucket List Doesn't use text messaging and prefers landline when he talks on the phone.
In addition to his multiple houses, he has a well-appointed apartment behind his studio office in Burbank. In Carmel he used to keep an apartment on the third floor of a building two doors down from the Hog's Breath Inn.
Coincidentally, Eastwood and Clooney have both been romantically linked with Frances Fisher. Cited under the pseudonym Mr. Has always been allergic to horses, which is why, in his westerns, he is rarely seen in close-up on horseback.
When he had to ride horses in films, he would first have to sniff medication into his nose and lungs. On Bronco Billy it left him constantly miserable.
Ferris Webster worked exclusively as his film editor for 10 years, but the two had a falling out during postproduction on Firefox It provides extensive plot summary for each of Eastwood's movies, but leaves his life little documented by comparison and omits the existence of some of his families. Personal physician Dr. He started lifting weights at 19, when weight training and bodybuilding were relegated to back-alley sweatshops with black-iron plates.
Los Angeles Times critic Allen Barra called it "perhaps the most thoroughly demythologizing book yet written on modern Hollywood.
Martin's Press in San Jose, California. Strangely enough, out of all the sordid stories in the book, the libel claim only covered three points, according to news reports: 1 That Eastwood once punched his first wife Maggie Johnson in the face; 2 That Eastwood is an atheist; 3 That Eastwood used a romantic relationship with an officer's daughter in order to avoid being sent overseas during the Korean conflict.
The suit was settled in July without any public disclosure; McGilligan and the publisher admitted no wrongdoing and there was no penalty. A revised and updated version of "Clint" was published in , with most of the original content intact.
The three cited passages had been excised, and a few other modifications amounting to less than two pages were made. McGilligan says many of the things he reported in the first edition are now taken for granted, and one of the reasons Eastwood sued him was an obvious attempt to find out his sources. No terms of financial settlement were revealed in the divorce decree, so it's unclear where his personal fortune currently stands. Was asked for permission about his name being used for Marty Michael J.
He consented and was said to be tickled by the homage. Was the uncredited producer of Ratboy While promoting the reality series Mrs. Just two weeks after the show premiered, Clint and Dina separated. Known in private life to communicate only by gesture, inference, and what isn't said or done. Although Clint has often peddled the notion that he grew up poor, actually his family lived in a very wealthy part of town, had a swimming pool, belonged to the country club, and each drove their own car.
With the exception of his cameo as Silvana Mangano 's husband in the obscure Italian film The Witches , Space Cowboys is the only time Eastwood has played a formally married man. His characters are usually single and meet their potential love interest if any as the story develops.
According to the unpublished manuscript "Take Ten" by Ria Brown, Anita Lhoest at one point became pregnant with Clint's child, but went ahead and had an abortion. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one of the mothers of Eastwood's children told biographer Patrick McGilligan : "There is no guilt with Clint.
Anything that vaguely resembles guilt is channeled into anger. His anger is always intended to prove people wrong, or prove their behavior bad.
And if people are wrong or bad, there is nothing for him to feel guilty about. Modeled sweaters in a Playboy layout with a bottomless Susan Blakely. In general, he wraps films early and uses the actors' first takes. Most of his films are shot in the spring or summer and released around Christmastime.
According to Robert Daley , "If they ever called a meeting of all the people Clint has screwed over, they'd have to hold it in the LA Coliseum. One afternoon in the early s, Eastwood and Paul E. Lippman were walking around San Francisco when a random woman on the street who happened to be of short stature, just his type sniffed, "Oh, you're Clint Eastwood. I hear you're a bum lay! The next morning Lippman asked her if she still thought Clint Eastwood was 'a bum lay', and she held out a flat hand, palm down, and wiggled it.
Told Rolling Stone magazine in , "I didn't really get involved in team sports because we moved so much" but actually, he didn't move at all between the ages of 10 and In , he told Tom Snyder that he "moved around quite a bit until I was about 15".
When The Variety Club honored Clint in , hardly anyone in the audience knew him personally. He'd never even met some of the celebrities who gave a speech. Yet everyone acted like good friends. Lifeguarded at Kennydale Beach in Renton, Washington, for the summers of , and He never had to do any of the normal duties like beach clean-up, because all the girls would do it for him," according to Penny Wade, chief of budget and personnel for King County Parks.
Cinematographer Irving Glassberg was responsible for getting him into show business. Johnson Jr. Her parents were Gilbert Sr. Clint spent that summer up in Seattle, where to impress a girl he liked, he joined a small theater group. The Seattle girlfriend, who has never been identified, became pregnant by Clint and gave birth to daughter Laurie Eastwood on February 11, in Renton, Washington -- nearly eight weeks after he married Maggie. The first incarnation of his publicity advanced the fairy tale that Clint was "a star on the high school basketball team," and this became an established nugget of his life story, carried down in permutations through the years in articles and books, appearing in even as authoritative and recent a source as Current Biography Yearbook, Studied at LACC.
In , 46 years after the release of The Beguiled , Sofia Coppola remade the film. Farrell shares the same May 31 birthday as Eastwood and was 41 at the time of its release, the same age Eastwood was in the original. Doesn't allow pets in the house because of his allergy to animal hair.
A fan of Paul Reubens and Benny Hill. Next for Eastwood was the family dramatic thriller Changeling , which starred Angelina Jolie as a mother of a kidnapped child. Jolie's character in the film—which is based on a true story—suspects that the child who is returned to her is not, in fact, her son. Several widely acclaimed directorial projects followed, including 's Gran Torino in which Eastwood also starred 's Invictus starring Matt Damon and Freeman as Nelson Mandela and 's J.
Edgar Hoover. Eastwood directed two films that were released in He adapted J ersey Boys from the Broadway musical about the rise to fame of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Eastwood next got behind the camera for another biopic, Sully. Released in , the film follows the heroic actions of pilot Chesley Sullenberger , who landed a troubled plane safely on the Hudson River in Sully earned widespread praise for both Eastwood and its star, Tom Hanks.
Eastwood's next biographical efforts, The to Paris and The Mule , both hit theaters in to mixed reviews, though the latter enjoyed a solid showing at the box office. Next up was Richard Jewell , based on the story of the security guard who discovered a bomb at the Summer Olympics, only to find himself at the center of an FBI investigation. Along with his highly successful Hollywood career, Eastwood has tried his hand at politics. In he was elected mayor of Carmel, California, and served two years.
Eastwood is also known for being outspoken about his political views. Although he registered as a Republican early in his career, he has embraced Democratic support of gun-control laws and same-sex marriage, and in recent years has portrayed himself as a Libertarian. The actor made headlines when he spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of its candidate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Unforgiven won Eastwood numerous directing and acting awards, including Oscars for best picture and best direction and a nomination for an Oscar as best actor.
Eastwood's interest in directing reached back to "Rawhide," but CBS allowed him only to direct trailers. He made an auspicious directorial debut in with Play Misty for Me, a thriller about a psychotic obsessed woman. It received good notices and did well at the box office, as did many of the over one dozen films he directed after it. Most starred him, but one of his finest efforts did not: Bird dealt movingly with the downbeat life of the jazz great Charlie Parker. Eastwood was a life-long fan of jazz, and jazz music and songs have been a frequent presence on the soundtracks of many of his films.
Eastwood's direction has been described as "a lean location sense of realism"; his technique shows economy, vitality, imagination, and a good sense of humor.
In he said that "favorites among his own films" were Play Misty for Me, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, and Bronco Billy, a sweet movie about an ex-shoe-salesman from New Jersey played by Eastwood who has formed a wild West show with a group of misfits. From the early s. Open hostility turned to grudging acceptance and finally to admiration.
More and more people began to appreciate Eastwood's contribution as producer and director, especially in his smaller, more personal films, including Play Misty for Me and Honkytonk Man. While Eastwood told the New York Times Magazine that he "never begged for respectability," he nonetheless flew to Paris in to accept the honor of Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, a French national award.
In , with Unforgiven, Eastwood finally won his first Academy Awards. After the ceremony, Eastwood told reporters that the wait for the award had been worth it.
The Academy bestowed upon him the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is given to producers or directors for consistently high quality of motion picture production.
Eastwood has not, however, rested on his laurels. In the summer of , he directed and starred in The Bridges of Madison County. The film, based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller, follows a National Geographic photographer as he is sent on assignment to photograph covered bridges in Iowa.
While there he has a passionate three-day affair with an Italian-born farm wife, played by Meryl Streep. The film enjoyed success as a classic "three-handkerchief weepie. Eastwood had two children with his first wife Maggie Johnson, whom he married in Eastwood also lived for over ten years with actress Sandra Locke, who appeared in many of his films.
In Eastwood married Dina Ruiz, a television reporter. In a jury ruled that Eastwood did not have to pay damages to a disabled woman who claimed his Mission Ranch Inn did not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
However, Eastwood was ordered to improve handicapped access to the hotel office at his property near Carmel. Later that year, noting Eastwood's concern for the environment, the governor of California appointed him to the state's Park and Recreation Commission.
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