Think your old man is a ball-buster? Try being the son of Clint Eastwood. And then try making a name for yourself in the family business. This month, as Clint and Scott Eastwood go head-to-head at the box office, father and son sit down together for an interview for the first time.
A meess of gnawed-open peanut shells litters the stoop of one of the Spanish-style bungalows on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. Since 1975, this bungalow, in the shadow of the massive Soundstage 3, has been the home of Clint Eastwood's production company, and when Eastwood and I walk up to the front door, we both notice the shells, bleaching in the hard-white late-afternoon sun.
"Those yours?" I ask him.
"Kind of," Eastwood tells me. "There's a squirrel around here. I like to put peanuts out for him. He's a nice guy. He comes right into the office sometimes. The other day, I opened the door and he was clinging on to it."
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WNU Editor: He is right .... there are many who complain, there are many who have grievances that they can never shake-off, there are many who see work and sacrifice as a foreign concept, and .... this always perturbs me .... there are many who have a strong belief that because of who and what they are makes them entitled to enjoy what this society can give .... without putting in the sweat equity and sacrifice. But fortunately for America, there are still many who do work incredibly hard, who live their lives with appreciation and honesty, and who have collectively .... to put it quite bluntly .... make (and continue to make) America work. Unfortunately ..... this part of American society is disappearing. I am a foreigner who has been an observer of American society since the 1980s .... and the American of today is culturally and politically completely different from what it was then .... and IMHO .... not for the good.
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