Will Hollywood ever come up with another Clint Eastwood?

Christian Toto wonders how and where Hollywood will ever come up with another Clint Eastwood. He gives a quick history of Eastwood's career as an actor, then as a director. Now, at age 89,

Enter “Richard Jewell.”

The upcoming film tracks the heroic security guard accused by the both the press and the FBI of planting a bomb during the 1996 Summer Olympics. In reality his quick instincts likely saved lives. The explosion killed one person and hurt dozens. That toll could have been worse had Jewell not hustled many out of the area after he discovered the bomb.

...The real Jewell, who died at the age of 44 in 2007, sued CNN, the New York Post and NBC for its biased coverage. The Eastwood movie’s trailer, in turn, all but shouts “Fake News.” The film, based on the Vanity Fair article “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” stars Paul Walter Hauser as the title character.

Would any other American filmmaker tackle this subject, zeroing in on the media along the way? Studios are far more eager to cheer the press on screen despite the public’s crumbling trust in the institution.

Toto takes a look at a couple of would-be Eastwood successors, and then concludes,

He makes movies for the Everyman, regardless of the industry’s progressive winds. He’s an American original, a star whose connection with the movie-going public endures.

There’s no one in Hollywood who comes close to his ever-expanding legacy.

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Clint Eastwood Casts Roles of Heroic Soldiers Who Stopped Terrorist on Paris Train

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Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone
Remember these three guys? They are American soldiers who, while traveling together on a train to Paris, encountered an armed terrorist, and took him down. Clint Eastwood is making a movie about the experience, and guess who will be playing the soldiers? They will be playing themselves.
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I think you people need a new sheriff

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Follow the punks!

Lisa De Pasquale writes about some people on the right who might actually lead us to liberty.

Fortunately, there is a group of conservatives and libertarians – I call them political punks – who actually have cultural credibility. They appreciate mainstream culture for the power of the parable in furthering a message of liberty. They also understand that unlike the perpetually outraged on both sides, Americans don’t view everything through politics. They are anti-authoritarian. They are punk. They go against the liberal culture scene and the conservative political scene. These punks are our best hope for engaging new audiences on the importance of liberty.

Who are some of the people she writes about? Clint Eastwood, Ann Coulter, Greg Gutfield, and Gavin McInnes are featured in this article, and TV host Mike Rowe, musician Andrew WK, playwright David Mamet, actor James Woods, TV host Kennedy, Reason editor Nick Gillespie may be featured in a future column.

Clint Eastwood saves a man's life

Clint Eastwood performed the Heimlich maneuver and saved a man's life Wednesday night. Read the story here.