Happy 85th birthday Clint Eastwood!

[marylander1940]

Clint Eastwood is an enduring cultural icon of masculinity -- even as he turns 85 on May 31. The gravelly voiced actor-director has left his mark on Hollywood, bringing home five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and numerous other honors. So on this, his 85th birthday, we'd like to go ahead and make his day. (Sorry, we couldn't resist.) Here are six things you never knew or perhaps have forgotten about Eastwood.

 

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6 Things You Never Knew Or Perhaps Forgot About Clint Eastwood In Honor Of His 85th Birthday

 

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[bigvalboy]

Clint Eastwood is an enduring cultural icon of masculinity -- even as he turns 85

 

 

I respect him as a director, but......this might very well be that one moment when we all knew Romney was in deep caca

[+ WilliamM]

Thanks for mentioning Clint's 85th birthday. He has had a superb career in front of and behind the camera.Chaplin and Gish may have had longer careers, but with long breaks between films.

[Lankypeters]

Of all the actors in films today, Clint is one of a handful about whom I have never heard the "gay" rumor. Still...there's always a first time.

[marylander1940]

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He has been described as a "serial womanizer." According to biographers Patrick McGilligan and Marc Eliot, Eastwood had affairs with, among other notable women, actresses including Catherine Deneuve, Jill Banner, Inger Stevens, Jamie Rose,[260] Jean Seberg, and Jo Ann Harris, as well as competitive swimmer Anita Lhoest and story analyst Megan Rose.

 

Eastwood, aged 23, married Maggie Johnson on December 19, 1953, six months after they met on a blind date.[265] However, the marriage would not prove altogether smooth, with Eastwood commenting that he had married too early.[266] A decade later, during a trial separation from Johnson, an affair Eastwood had with dancer Roxanne Tunis produced his first child, Kimber Eastwood (born Kimber Tunis; June 17, 1964),[267][268] whose existence was kept secret from the public until July 1989, when the National Enquirer revealed her identity.[269] After a reconciliation, he and Johnson had two children together: Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972), though he was absent from both births.[270] Johnson filed for legal separation in 1978, after another long period of estrangement, but did not officially divorce Eastwood until May 1984,[271][272] receiving a reported cash settlement of $25 million.[273]

 

Eastwood's relationship with actress Sondra Locke began in the autumn of 1975 while filming The Outlaw Josey Wales. They lived together for nearly 14 years, although Locke remained legally married to her openly gay husband, Gordon Anderson.[274][275] Eastwood befriended Locke's husband and purchased a house on Crescent Heights Boulevard in West Hollywood for Anderson and his male companion.[268] In the late 1970s, Locke underwent two abortions and a tubal ligation,[276] later stating it was a "mutual decision" to have the procedures.[277] Eastwood and Locke went on to star in five more films together: The Gauntlet, Every Which Way But Loose, Bronco Billy, Any Which Way You Can, and Sudden Impact. On April 10, 1989, while Locke was away directing the film Impulse, Eastwood had the locks changed on their Bel-Air home and ordered her possessions to be boxed and put in storage.[278] Locke filed a palimony suit against Eastwood, and later sued him a second time for fraud, alleging that a directing pact he set up for her at Warner Bros. in exchange for dropping the first lawsuit was a sham.[279][280] In 1996, minutes before a jury was to render a verdict in Locke's favor, Eastwood agreed to settle for an undisclosed amount.[281] In her autobiography, The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly,[282] Locke described Eastwood as "a monster who thought nothing of destroying anything inconvenient to him."[283]

 

During the last three years of his cohabitation with Locke, Eastwood secretly fathered two children with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves:[255] a son Scott Eastwood (born Scott Reeves; March 21, 1986)[284] and daughter Kathryn Eastwood (born Kathryn Reeves; February 2, 1988).[272] According to biographer McGilligan, "he and Reeves had got together at the premiere of Pale Rider, they had slept together on impulse, she had got pregnant, and since she made no great demands on Clint, he later repeated the experience."[285] The birth certificates for both children stated "Father declined."[286] The affair was first reported in the Star tabloid in 1990,[287][288] but went unmentioned by mainstream news sources for more than a decade.[289]

 

In 1990, Eastwood moved in with actress Frances Fisher, whom he had met on the set of Pink Cadillac in late 1988.[290] They co-starred in Unforgiven, and had a daughter, Francesca Eastwood (born Francesca Fisher-Eastwood; August 7, 1993).[291] Eastwood and Fisher ended their relationship in early 1995,[292] but remain friends and later worked together in True Crime.

 

Eastwood with his (now former) wife Dina in 2007

Eastwood subsequently started dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor 35 years his junior, whom he had first met when she interviewed him in 1993.[291] 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.[293] The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996).[294]

[Lankypeters]

Surely at family reunions, the kids come in to "The March of the Siamese Children."