Clint Eastwood at 95 on film-making: do something new, or stay home
Clint Eastwood at 95 on film-making: do something new, or stay home
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FILE PHOTO: Actor and director Clint Eastwood attends the AFI 2019 Awards luncheon in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 3, 2020. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo© Thomson Reuters
VIENNA (Reuters) -Hollywood star Clint Eastwood urged fellow filmmakers to come up with new ideas as he approaches his 95th birthday this weekend, observing in a newspaper interview that the movie business is now full of remakes and franchises.
Oscar-winning director Eastwood told Austrian newspaper Kurier he planned to keep working, saying that he was still in good physical shape and hopeful that no one would have to worry about him in that regard “for a long time yet.”
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Eastwood’s most recent film, legal drama “Juror#2”, came out in the United States last year and the newspaper said he was currently in the pre-production phase for another movie.
When asked for his view on the current state of the film industry, the star of movies such as “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” and “Dirty Harry”, and director of dozens of films including “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby”, said:
“I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like ‘Casablanca’ in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea,” according to the German text of the interview published on Friday.
“We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I’ve shot sequels three times, but I haven’t been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home,” added Eastwood, who will turn 95 on Saturday.
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Asked where he got his energy from, Eastwood said:
“There’s no reason why a man can’t get better with age. And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I’m not one of them.”
Eastwood, who made World War II thriller “Where Eagles Dare” in Austria with Welsh actor Richard Burton in the late 1960s, told the paper the secret to his success was that he had always tried something new as a director and an actor.
“As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year,” he said. “And that’s why I’ll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I’m truly senile.”
(Writing by Dave Graham; editing by Giles Elgood)
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Only drink one glass of wine a year, says researcher
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The human body can only safely consume one large glass of wine a year, a prominent scientist has said.
Prof David Nutt, a former government drug tsar, said studies into how toxic alcohol is reveal the maximum amount of wine we should be drinking in a year is around 250ml.
In 2009, the 74-year-old was sacked from his role advising Gordon Brown’s government after claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.
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An Imperial College London researcher, he had written in a paper that alcohol ranked “as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone”, that tobacco was ninth and that “cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked lower at 11, 14 and 18 respectively”.
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“I can accept that 40,000 years of alcohol use is precedence – but if we invented it today we wouldn’t have that precedence,” he said. “So what would we do? Well, what we would do is you would put your alcohol through food safety testing and it would fail.
“It would fail because the maximal recommended amount of alcohol any individual should consume in a year, based on the toxicology, is a large glass of wine per year. That’s why they had to exempt it because you couldn’t put it through normal testing so that tells you how relatively harmful alcohol is.”
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BBC drama ‘rewrote history to turn scandalous aristocrat into a feminist’
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The Scandalous Lady W aired on BBC Two in 2015 – Laurence Cendrovitz/BBC
The BBC rewrote the story of an 18th century heiress to wrongly paint her as a feminist heroine, the historian Hallie Rubenhold has claimed.
Rubenhold, an award-winning historian, was delighted when her biography of Seymour Fleming, styled Lady Worsley, was turned into a BBC Two drama starring Natalie Dormer.
In a case that scandalised society in 1781, Seymour left her husband, Sir Richard Worsley, to elope with his best friend.
Sir Richard sued for damages and the case became a sensation when Seymour revealed in court that she had taken many other lovers.
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She said it was “spine-tingling” to see her work transferred to the screen but went on: “It is an act of negotiation. For me, one of the most difficult things about that was the desire to make Lady Worsley into a feminist when she absolutely was not a feminist.
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