That’s the latest speculation about tonight’s “mystery speaker,” according to Christian Science Monitor.
‘It’s him,’ Romney family friend Paul Gilbert told the US News ‘Washington Whispers’ blog. ‘I can confirm that, 100 percent.’ …
Fox News is also saying it’s Mr. Eastwood. … CNN is reporting the same.
I’m still puzzled by this whole thing, whether Eastwood or someone else. It’s Romney’s huge, gigantic night to shine, the most important speech of his campaign, or maybe his life. At least that’s what we’re told. And yet, the excitement they’ve created for tonight is about a “mystery guest”?
He’ll probably say: “Make our day.”
You called it.
I guess Mr. tough guy is still pouting over the reaction to his Chrysler commercial. He has to do somethng to prove he’s not a Democrat. Makes you wonder though, how a guy who makes a commercial like that, with an unambiguous message about national decline, could look himself in the mirror after throwing his support behind two men like Romney/Ryan. Maybe his next boring, overly long ( badly in need of editing ), musically challenged picture could be about an 80 year old hypocrite who has everything he could ever want ( including a hot young wife to pump out babies ) still feels the need to destroy a pristine Monterey Pine forest to build a golf course for his rich friends.
Nope. Sorry. Still not tuning in. I don’t care if he’s backed by Ted Nugent on guitar with the Nikii Haley and Sarah Palin dancing. I think I’ll put on The Outlaw Josey Wales or Gran Torino. Either is likely to be far more realistic.
I won’t be tuning in either, Cujo. To me, the national conventions are boring.
Why Clint Eastwood? He’s so yesterday. Ancient actually.
Think about the voters he reaches, JA… it will hit.
I’m older than him and he doesn’t do it for me. Of course, he never did.
He always gave me the creeps. there was something about him that just didn’t sit well with me and maybe it was that I knew he was a womanizer. I don’t know. I just don’t think he’s a sensation.
Romney needs to keep older white voters in Florida close, as well as white voters that relate to Eastwood movies.
I think he’s a brilliant director, love his films, including the Dirty Harry saga.
Well, after reading up on his relationships, no surprise here. He fits right in with the Misogynists ‘R Us Party. From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood
Eastwood has fathered at least seven children by five different women and been described as a “serial womanizer”. He had affairs with actresses:
Catherine Deneuve
Jill Banner
Jamie Rose
Inger Stevens
Jo Ann Harris
Jean Seberg
script analyst Megan Rose
James Brolin’s former wife Jane,(James is now married to Barbra Streisand…LOL!!!)
columnist Bridget Byrne and
swimming champion Anita Lhoest
Eastwood entered a relationship with actress Sondra Locke in 1975. They lived together for fourteen years, despite the fact that Locke remained married (in name only) to her gay husband, Gordon Anderson.
Locke had two abortions and a tubal ligation within the first four years of the relationship.
The couple co-starred in six films together: The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way but Loose, Bronco Billy, Any Which Way You Can, and Sudden Impact. 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.Locke filed a palimony suit against Eastwood, then sued him a second time for fraud, regarding a phony directing contract he set up for her in settlement of the first lawsuit. Eastwood and Locke finally resolved the dispute with a non-public settlement in 1999. Her autobiography, The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly, includes a harrowing account of Eastwood’s treatment
of her during the events surrounding their separation.
During the last four years of his cohabitation with Locke, Eastwood had an intermittent,
hidden affair with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves. According to biographers, the two met at a pub in Carmel, and conceived a son, Scott Reeves (born March 21, 1986), at the premiere of Pale Rider.
They also had a daughter, Kathryn Reeves (born February 2, 1988). The birth certificates for both children stated “Father declined.” Although they were mentioned in exposé articles as early as 1997, Eastwood did not present his and Reeves’ children to the public until 2002. Kathryn served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2005 ceremony where she presented Eastwood with an award for Million Dollar Baby.
In 1990, Eastwood began living with actress Frances Fisher, whom he had met on the set of Pink Cadillac (1989). They co-starred in Unforgiven, and had a daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (born August 7, 1993).The couple ended their relationship in early 1995, but remain friends and later acted together in True Crime.
Eastwood subsequently began dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor 35 years his junior, whom he had first met when she interviewed him in 1993.[298] They married on March 31, 1996, when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.[300] After their wedding, Dina commented “The fact that I am only the second woman he has married really touches me.” The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996).
I find he part about declining his children with Jacelyn Reeves from 1988 until 2002 particularly touching (NOT). Fits right in with the Party of the people who care only that a baby gets born, but who give not a fig about what happens to it after it takes its first breath as a true, human being.
Clint’s history is being a very bad boy…
Yawn!!! I’d rather watch paint dry/
Yawn. That’s the perfect response.
IMO, there’s no need to worry about Clint. Let him have his day.
These next few days are the high water mark of the Romney campaign. In two weeks or so, as their retrograde views begin to take hold they’ll tumble back to reality.
In the meantime, if anyone is desperately in need of a quick pick-me-up, go here for a strong dose of reality: http://www.electoral-vote.com/
I’m glad you provided the link, Ramsgate. Thanks.
The reviews are in and it looks like the verdict is you had to be there.
“I think he’s a brilliant director, love his film. Taylor”
I do too, Taylor.
Here was a tweet by the great film critic, Roger Ebert:
“Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn’t need to do this to himself.”
That was very generous of Mr. Ebert. For those who were his fans, that had to be excruitating to watch.
He behaved like I don’t know what. He seemed unhinged talking to an invisible chair and then his total disrespect for a sitting POTUS. I may be old fashioned, but, no matter how liberal I am, and no matter how most President’s have not been free from being human compared to the loftines of the office (in my eyes at the least), he used mastabatory images to refer to the POTUS twice. What a disgrace. I felt the way I did when it was revealed that one of my fav directors, Woody Allen, left Mia Farrow for their adopted daughter. Ugh.
btw, there is an account on twitter for that invisible chair Eastwood was having a conversation with on stage. It’s pretty funny. Twitter members don’t let moss grow that’s for sure. LOL
https://twitter.com/InvisibleObama
I thought the chair turned in a brilliant performance. It refused to acknowledge Eastwood’s rambling, crochety tirade with the dignity of a reply.
My opinion of Eastwood is very mixed. He has some brilliant films, but he has also turned in some duds. Mostly, I don’t have much regard for the way he has treated most of the women in his life, as well as his refusal to acknowledge two of his out-of-wedlock children for 16 years. Wow..what a great guy and family man….NOT.
His point of being there was….remind me again….what?
Spot on, ladywalker68. I was astounded by what he did. He seemed high on something as well. He behaved disgracefully. There were parts that were incomprehensible as well.
Also,what screams of congnitive dissonance some of his views are not as reactionary as Romney/Ryan. He’s pro-choice, pro gay marriage and is pretty good on the enviornment. I don’t know what was in his head tonight. I had a much higher opinion of this man before tonight. I especially remember that Detroit commerial played during the Super Bowl earlier this year (posted by Taylor uppage) and thought he did a great job. And, how the GOP abused him relentlessly for it. Maybe that’s one reason he lost his mind and did what he did tonight. I just have no clue.
Until I read your post about his treatment of the women in his life, I had no clue who this guy was, I just enjoyed many of his films (that he directed) such as:
Bird
The Unforgiven
The Bridges of Madison County
Mystic River
Million Dollar Baby
Letters from Iwo Jima
Gran Torino
Invictus
Just sad and disturbing. It’s going to be difficult to watch anything else this guy does without thinking about tonight.
Just one more thing about this. I was watching CNBC earlier this evening and there was a conversation between two presenters whose names escape me. The guy said to the gal something like: “I’ll take Clint Eastwood anyday, anytime over those annoying and second-rate people who support Obama and the Dems” and he went on to name the usual liberal “suspects” (in his jaundiced eye) George Clooney, Barbra Striesand, to name just two. Clooney and Striesand, second rate? I’m very happy that that dolt is eating his words tonight. I hope he was squirming in his barcalounger. Although I do enjoy some of their programming like “American Greed” and one or two financial analysis progams, CNBC are becoming almost unwatchable outside of these limited offerings.
I’ll take Barbra Streisand any day over Ann Romney and Clint Eastwood combined. Barbra was born into extremely modest means, lost her dad when she was 18 months old, had a step-dad who treated her like dirt and went from that to a 50 year career as one of the top female performers of all time, director, actress of stage and screen, recording star, author, mother, wife (and all those other things Ann talked about a woman being) as well as an activist on women’s health issues, most currently raising awareness of heart disease and it’s differences in women. Talk about someone who pulled herself up by her bootstraps and cultivated her raw talents and intelligence to the best she could possibly be. I am sure she had help along the way but she worked her butt off to get to where she is and she can’t understand why anyone would be a Republican. Go figure!
I have an enormous amount of repect for Striesand for all of her accomplishments in Hollywood, on the stage and in concerts. And, she had to deal with a very sexist entertainment industry at a time when women were prized for their “in front of the camera” talents. But, god forbid if they were any more ambitious than that and had a desire to direct films as Streisand did. The double standard was and still is alive in show business.
Striesand is an American success story as prescribed by the Republicans and yet some of them declare that she’s “second rate”. They need to look at themselves in the mirror.
Well said, newdealdem1. Not to mention that Barbra's face brings a beauty to the screen that is far from a "traditional" look. Good for her.
I couldn't agree more. I have nothing against plastic surgery and men and women can do whatever they want to enhance whatever they think they have to to feel better about themselves. Some go to extremes and let society dominate them in how they are "supposed" to look. For women, you know that barbie doll plastic look with everything perfect even their inner organs LOL. That's one reason I really like Streisand, she never let outside influences, especially the steam rolling "beauty" culture that is Hollywood or the larger American society scolds dominate her or who she is. I, myself, have not always passed that test, so I have enormous respect for women especially, who are under much more pressure to conform to American society's/Hollywood's "standard" of beauty, like her who brush all of that outside noise away and keep on going and dance to their own drumbeat.
That’s the difference between shooting a written scene until you get it right and being observed contemporaneously. One is make-believe the other is real life.
Bingo, TPAZ!