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Old 07-24-2014, 01:10 PM
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I wonder how many of Larry's other heroes are letting him down? Sure hope that Clint Eastwood never partook of the evil weed...
Clint is a life long abstainer from smoking and even the cheroots in the western movies were contractually required. He's health conscious and it shows.

His "weakness" is the ladies. Married twice, he has seven children, three of whom are with his wives.

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Old 07-24-2014, 01:51 PM
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Successful by what measure? Money? Deception? If those are your measures then yes, he led a successful life.
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Old 07-24-2014, 02:03 PM
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I wonder how many of Larry's other heroes are letting him down? Sure hope that Clint Eastwood never partook of the evil weed...
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If you are willing to judge a man without considering his integrity then I guess that works for you. For me a person is only as good as their integrity, regardless of their number of academy awards or home runs or whatever. If you're willing to overlook a persons integrity or lack thereof, you're certainly free to do so, but if you are I would suggest that you stop and think about what that says about YOUR OWN integrity.
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Old 07-24-2014, 02:26 PM
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Clint is a life long abstainer from smoking and even the cheroots in the western movies were contractually required. He's health conscious and it shows.

His "weakness" is the ladies. Married twice, he has seven children, three of whom are with his wives.
So what say Larry about this? Hero or Zero?
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Old 07-24-2014, 02:30 PM
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Clint did not like guns, hated the cigars and hung out with darkies playing jazz.
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I don't know if Larry would consider Clint his hero, and because I only follow his quoted posts (Hey guys, can you just stop quotin' him?), but I would reckon' that extra marital affairs and offspring doesn't get him many positive points. Or could it be, that in the relative importance scale . . . screwing around is more virtuous than smoking weed. Tough call.
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Old 07-24-2014, 02:57 PM
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Clint did not like guns, hated the cigars and hung out with darkies playing jazz.
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Old 07-24-2014, 03:07 PM
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If you are willing to judge a man without considering his integrity then I guess that works for you. For me a person is only as good as their integrity, regardless of their number of academy awards or home runs or whatever. If you're willing to overlook a persons integrity or lack thereof, you're certainly free to do so, but if you are I would suggest that you stop and think about what that says about YOUR OWN integrity.
He has no integrity...why?
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He has no integrity...why?
Because Larry conned himself, by his own use of the interweb, into believing he wasn't a Hollywood sleazoid . . . Larry's kryptonite is admitting he was wrong, it has to be the fault of another, in this case, the recently departed Mr. Garner. He would rather slam a decorated vet and award winning actor who was certainly open about his past and beliefs. Now that's honorable and oozing integrity.

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If you are willing to judge a man without considering his integrity then I guess that works for you. For me a person is only as good as their integrity, regardless of their number of academy awards or home runs or whatever. If you're willing to overlook a persons integrity or lack thereof, you're certainly free to do so, but if you are I would suggest that you stop and think about what that says about YOUR OWN integrity.
The error in your thinking is believing that you can identify which herbal substances damage someone's integrity when they are imbibed. As has been stated elsewhere, coffee, sugar, and chocolate have a strong stimulative effect on the system. I tried cocaine twice and actually think coffee gives about the same result. So is someone who used cocaine lacking in integrity while a several cup of coffee a day person not?

Some people get loopy on pot, I will readily agree. Some people also get loopy on alcohol while other responsible people enjoy it in moderation with no apparent ill effects. Did Garner exhibit signs of pot addlement?

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Poor guy is barely cold and you got him pumped up with enough chemicals that he probably doesn't even need to be embalmed. What a pickle.
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If you are willing to judge a man without considering his integrity then I guess that works for you. For me a person is only as good as their integrity, regardless of their number of academy awards or home runs or whatever. If you're willing to overlook a persons integrity or lack thereof, you're certainly free to do so, but if you are I would suggest that you stop and think about what that says about YOUR OWN integrity.
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Clint is a life long abstainer from smoking and even the cheroots in the western movies were contractually required. He's health conscious and it shows.

His "weakness" is the ladies. Married twice, he has seven children, three of whom are with his wives.
Folks like working with Eastwood and give their all for him. He is honest and professional.

And talented.

I knew one guy who had a small part in an Eastwood film and the entire segment got left on the cutting room floor. Eastwood paid the guy for his services and sent him a personal letter saying how sorry he was to had to have cut his scenes but the whole subplot was not working and had to go.

I have never known anyone who was as happy as the guy who was cut because it is rare that a Director will give the time of day to a featured extra much less a personal letter of apology.
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Old 07-24-2014, 05:43 PM
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Folks like working with Eastwood and give their all for him. He is honest and professional.
Not everybody that's worked with Clint have glowing reviews, which is natural, of course.

Someone once said that if you had a meeting of everyone in Hollywood that got crossed or stabbed in the back by Eastwood, the meeting would have to be held at the Colesium. Some reports are suspicious about being drafted during the Korean Conflict, but he was assigned to Fort Ord as a lifeguard/swim instructor and bouncer at the NCO Club.

More recently . . .

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/02/romney-advisor-vomited-in-horror-after-clint-eastwoods-empty-chair-speech-says-book/


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