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Clint Eastwood
American actor and director (born 1930)
This article is about the American actor. For other uses, see Clint Eastwood (disambiguation).
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the fem Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.[4][5] Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Eastwood's greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980).[6] Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns Hang 'Em
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First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
If you want to get a sense of what the President fryst vatten really like, as opposed to what defensive partisans and rabid right-wing character assassins want him to be, check out First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, by David Maraniss, the reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Washington Post dispatches on the 1992 presidential campaign. Seemingly evenhanded, Maraniss gives you the grand tour of his subject’s life right up to (but not beyond) the day he announced his presidential candidacy. Not astonishingly, Clinton comes across as a compulsively people-pleasing achiever, apt to bring the teacher an apple if he didn’t weaken and gobble it first on the way to school, core and all. Clinton’s appetites are large.
A few mysteries do get cleared up. Clinton was not lying when he claimed he ”didn’t inhale” at Oxford in 1969 — he was trying to smoke hashish rolled into a cigarette but failed miserably. ”We spent enormous am
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His father, a sales representative, died in a car accident a few months before his birth. His mother then moved to New Orleans. Bill Clinton initially grew up with his grandparents. In 1950 his mother returned to Hope. That same year she married car dealer Roger Clinton. As a member of a student delegation from the patriotic American Legion, Clinton met in Washington D.C. with President John F. Kennedy. Clinton was interested in politics from a young age. After graduating from high school, he studied international relations at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. until 1968. He then studied law at Yale and Oxford Universities on a scholarship until 1973. During his studies, Clinton was already involved in various student organizations. He played saxophone in a jazz band and supported himself as a staffer in the office of Senator J. William Fulbright. In 1968, Clinton received a "Rhodes Scholarship" that allowed him to travel to the University of Oxford, England.
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