Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

She had a minor but memorable role as Ma Boggs the mother of Orville Boggs ( Geoffrey Lewis ) in the Clint Eastwood films Every Which Way but Loose and Any Which Way You Can.

Although movie audiences had shrunk, Warner's new management believed in the drawing power of stars, signing co-production deals with several of the biggest names of the day, among them Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, and Clint Eastwood, carrying the studio successfully through the 1970s and 1980s.

Until that time Eastwood had been an American television actor with few credited film roles.

In his later years, Leone had a falling out of sorts with actor Clint Eastwood.

According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.

Before the release of Hang ' Em High Eastwood had already begun working on Coogan's Bluff, about an Arizona deputy sheriff tracking a wanted psychopathic criminal ( Don Stroud ) through the streets of New York City.

Before Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood had discussed the idea of Malpaso producing Play Misty for Me, a film that was to give Eastwood the artistic control he desired, and his debut as a director.

The script was about a jazz disc jockey named Dave ( Eastwood ), who has a casual affair with Evelyn ( Jessica Walter ), a listener who had been calling the radio station repeatedly at night, asking him to play her favorite song — Erroll Garner's " Misty ".

A number of critics thought Eastwood's directing was " as derivative as it was expressive ", with Arthur Knight of the Saturday Review remarking that Eastwood had " absorbed the approaches of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society ".

John Wayne, who had declined a role in the film, sent a letter to Eastwood soon after the film's release in which he complained that, " the townspeople did not represent the true spirit of the American pioneer, the spirit that made America great ".

Once filming of Breezy had finished, Warner Brothers announced that Eastwood had agreed to reprise his role as Detective Harry Callahan in Magnum Force ( 1973 ), a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers ( among them David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson ) in the San Francisco Police Force who systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals.

Tightrope ( 1984 ) had Eastwood starring opposite his daughter Alison, Geneviève Bujold, and Jamie Rose in a provocative thriller, inspired by newspaper articles about an elusive Bay Area rapist.

In 1997, Eastwood directed and starred in the political thriller Absolute Power, alongside Gene Hackman ( with whom he had appeared in Unforgiven ).

From the very early days of his career Eastwood was frustrated by directors ' insistence that scenes be re-shot multiple times and perfected, and when he began directing in 1970, he made a conscious attempt to avoid any aspects of directing he had been indifferent to as an actor.

While separated from Johnson, Eastwood had an affair with dancer Roxanne Tunis, with whom he had his first child, Kimber Tunis ( born June 17, 1964 ); he did not publicly acknowledge her until 1996.

After a reconciliation, he had two children with Johnson: Kyle Eastwood ( born May 19, 1968 ) and Alison Eastwood ( born May 22, 1972 ).

On April 10, 1989, while Locke was directing the film Impulse, Eastwood changed the locks on their Bel Air home, had many of her possessions removed and placed in storage.

After a small role in the Clint Eastwood comedy film Any Which Way You Can, comedian Lily Tomlin saw Brown at a comedy club and gave her first big break, a part in her 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

The cities of Kalamazoo and Parchment are adjacent to the township and have annexed much land that was formerly within the township, such that the township now consists of two non-contiguous sections of land and one small section that is connected by a narrow point across Riverview Dr. Two census-designated places ( CDPs ) are within the township: Eastwood and Westwood.

Eastwood, who was 28, felt his character Rowdy was too young and cloddish for him to feel comfortable with the part.

Time magazine drew attention to the film's wooden acting, especially on the part of Eastwood, though a few critics such as Vincent Canby and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Eastwood's coolness in playing the tall, lone stranger.

Eastwood has his own Warner Bros. Records-distributed imprint Malpaso Records, as part of his deal with Warner Brothers, which has released all of the scores of Eastwood's films from The Bridges of Madison County onward.

* California Historical Landmark # 114 — Old Mission Reservoir, part of the water system for Mission San Buenaventura ( the settling tank or receiving reservoir ; the site can be found in Eastwood Park )

Kaufman insisted on filming with a meticulous attention to detail which caused disagreements with Eastwood, not to mention the attraction the two shared towards Locke and apparent jealousy on Kaufman's part in regards to their emerging relationship.

Also part owner and auctioneer of textile mills alongside uncle, Benjamin Eastwood.

Perkins had agreed to provide the voice for the role of the dentist, Dr. Wolfe, in The Simpsons episode " Last Exit to Springfield " after Anthony Hopkins and Clint Eastwood both turned the role down, but he died before the part could be recorded.

The part of Archie Gates was originally planned for Clint Eastwood, but Russell decided to rewrite it as a younger character.

The Borough Act resulted in a flurry of new boroughs created from portions of the township in 1894 as the " Boroughitis " phenomenon swept through The Township of Washington: Westwood ( May 8, 1894 ), Park Ridge ( May 14, 1894 ), Eastwood ( part ; created June 6, 1894, borough lasted until 1896 ), Montvale ( part ; created August 31, 1894 ) and Woodcliff ( part ; created August 31, 1894, name changed to Woodcliff Lake in 1910 ).

In 2002, part of the administration of East Renfrewshire Council relocated from Eastwood Park to Barrhead Main Street.

Clint Eastwood was also approached by Leone for the role, but he saw it as just a different take of the same character he had already played in the Dollars Trilogy, and he also wanted to part with the Italian film industry, so he declined the offer and starred in Hang ' Em High.

This house is now part of Marist College Eastwood.

Following the abolition of the counties in 1975, Netherlee became a part of the new Eastwood District within Strathclyde Region under the two tier system of local government which lasted until the creation of the present unitary authorities in 1996.

For the Scottish Parliament, Netherlee forms part of the Eastwood constituency within the West of Scotland electoral region.

Eastwood has said that the chase was his favorite part of the film.

It was with Clint Eastwood that McKinney would become most associated, becoming part of Eastwood's stock company after they worked together in Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, in which McKinney played a character called Crazy Driver.

Hammered metal hardware, in armor-bright polished iron or patinated copper emphasized the handmade qualities of furniture which was fabricated using both handworking techniques and modern woodworking machinery within Stickley's Eastwood, New York, factory ( now a part of Syracuse, New York ).

From 1885 the constituency consisted of the parishes of Eastwood, Cathcart, Mearns and Eaglesham, and part of the parish of Govan.

Eastwood has Easy Access for wheelchairs created as part of the refurbishment / renovation.

:" Clint Eastwood filmed part of his " Play Misty for Me " movie at the festival in 1970, and used a lot of jazz in the film ".

Two Mules for Sister Sara is an American-Mexican western film starring Shirley MacLaine ( billed above Clint Eastwood in the film's credits, but not on the poster ) set during the French intervention in Mexico.

Maltz's version had Clint Eastwood playing a soldier of fortune for the Juaristas and Shirley MacLaine playing a revolutionary prostitute now set during the French intervention in Mexico.

After studying with French bassist Bunny Brunel, he began playing gigs around the New York and Los Angeles areas, eventually forming the Kyle Eastwood Quartet, who contributed to 1996's Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall, a concert saluting Clint Eastwood and his love of jazz.