European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes july 1985 entertainment Eastwood at 54 enjoying respectability new York times c it Eastwood Lay on the deck of his borrowed a bottle of Beer in his hand and his feet on a polished Wood no matter How Pale rider the movie that brought him in May to the Cannes film festival is his presence there was the main event of the in life called Clint Eastwood the worlds favorite movie according to Warner his studio for the last 12 a Roper poll recently went much Clint Eastwood was listed As the i hero of 18to 25yearold Mother Teresa and the Pope were lower on the but if Eastwood was the Centrepiece of the he was also its the photographers Clung to him like wasps to a Ripe fretful when he is barred from he sneaked off the yacht at night to run around he rocks of the Why was he that soft spoken actor whose screen image is of a deadly policeman with mild eyes and a magnum underneath it Clint liked being taken he fifteen years the pauses Between his words could be measured with a now he uses words in not so measured not so he Ive i thought everything should be the absolute now in willing to take my chances with just dont say in making love to an orangutan when i dont at least on most Eastwood is the top movie Star in and Detec Jeanluc Godard new is dedicated to but he knocks on Wood when he mentions the official screening of Pule and he is still uncomfortable enough about his new respectability among european intellectuals to use the third person when he Speaks of being taken Pale which he produced and directed and in which he opened in Heaters across the United states june it is his first Western in nine the movie he the old Western theme of the big Guys who we were Here first against the Little Guys who theres room for beyond the simple the movie is deliberately both an environmental Western and an the villainous Rich Eastwood is raping the land by Hydraulic he were Only Here for a Millionth of a so perhaps it Doest matter that it will be a thousand years before those scars Are but one whole Valley i visited in California was filled with and the Stream was a vivid Green from no fish live in that and the gaunt stranger who rides into the movie in answer to a prayer May a someone already dead who has returned to take vengeance on the Man who killed it would be a mistake to dismiss the allegory in Pale rider As a Middle aged mans attempt to dress himself in new intellectual he says that there was discussion about coming to can nes in 1970 with his movie the beguiled a film directed by Don Siegel in which Eastwood played a Yankee Soldier whose leg was eventually Cut off by Confederate women whom he assailed physically or Universal said absolutely he i didst have the muscle or the smarts to in going to take this Damn thing to Cannes or Arrivederci As soon As he got the he moved to Warner which tacitly allows him one Bronco in which he played a runaway shoe or Honky Tonk in which he played a dying for every dirty Harry or and where he has gotten extremely Rich by producing in directing his own the Gray in the sideburns gives you a Little he pointing to his speckled with no Gray in the its hard to convince anybody youre really serious about making Best part of growing old is changing without at he looks almost unchanged from a decade he he enjoyed being More of an outlaw and now he enjoys Treyve even made me the offer to do the Clint Eastwood workout he but in not far reaching enough to do a photo Eastwood at the Cannes film Stallone is really a writer by Bob Thomas associated press writer they Call him which is a lot easier than his real name and More in keeping with the hard muscled screen Persona of Sylvester being named Sylvester was a Burden for a kid growing he 1 was in school at the height of the Sylvester and Tweedie Bird and my name was an automatic fistfight at any school i at Stallone As Vietnam Veteran i changed to Mike for about eight just to avoid the when i went to new York to be an i figured that if Humphrey Bogart could make it with the name of i had a Chance with the Only person close to him who still Calls the actor Sylvester is his Brigitte who costars with Stallone in Rocky i told if you want to bother with All those go said the Stallone House is on a Shady Street a few blocks North of Sunset Boulevard in Pacific not far from where president and Reagan used to dont plan on dropping in the place is sur rounded by an eight foot Brick Wall topped by a Row of the gabled French Villa is magnificently furnished and decorated with huge modern and including a full length portrait of Stallone As god has been Good to the actor and so has United his salary As director and Star of Rocky in was 15 everything is and everyone will do All he even if half As Well As it will show a profit on its Cost of Rocky made million in rentals actual return to the not theater made Iii made he recalled his own earnings from the first film a week take Home As an for the Sylvester Stallone in person is a first of his size at 5 10 inches he seems less commanding than he does in the ring As his conversation int what one Hes even people think of me As being raised in the gutters of new he but i also spent a lot of my time in a Nice background in the its just that in films Ive been called on to use my new he plans to draw on his Southern background for what he Hopes will be his next movie the life of Edgar Allan that Sylvester Stallone As the dark its my first script and probably my he in considered a physical and i suppose i i dont suppose i i know i but in really a writer that the basis of All my creative i sincerely believe i could portray someone who is passionately for the Poe Stallone said he would lower his to form 175 pounds to his weight As a War prisoner in 1981s transforming his body to fit his film roles has become a consistent and punishing now even he is sensing that he May be pushing his he recently was forced to take a three week break in filming Rocky in when boxing blows caused his heart to the toughest he was first blood part in first Stallone played a disgruntled Vietnam Veteran who staged a Oneman resistance against the now Hes hired by the Cia to Rescue pos in reviews for rambo have been some critics praising it As an others deploring its Stallone recalled of the Acapulco location the heat was 110 and i was running All then work ing out until after i was consuming calories a Day and still losing if i ate like that under Normal id end up weighing 250 he admitted that he pushed himself perhaps too it can become and usually Between Pic Tures i can eat like a Normal person for two he but i Haven stopped this routine for 2vi am i having any fun the answer is but its not enough just to be Happy in this what is he is to face a Challenge and conquer like like
