"With Clint: The Man and the Movies, Portland author Shawn Levy provides the definitive biography of the iconic yet somehow ineffable Clint Eastwood, the 1950s TV cowboy who became a squinting big-screen megastar and a two-time Oscar-winning director and whose latest, last year's Juror #2, was released in his 95th year. The book has received rave reviews from A.O. Scott in The New York Times and Richard Brody in The New Yorker,"
"Toss in a book of poetry inspired by New York Times obituaries, a podcast about Hollywood legend Lew Wasserman, and the task of responding to the countless emails he receives from people who think he's the director/producer Shawn Levy of Stranger Things fame, and it's been a busy couple of decades for Levy, who served as the film critic for The Oregonian back when that was a job (i.e. from 1997 to 2012)."
Clint Eastwood rose from a 1950s TV cowboy to a squinting big-screen megastar and a two-time Oscar-winning director, releasing Juror #2 at age 95. A recent biography traces that career arc and situates Eastwood within broader popular-culture histories that profile figures such as Jerry Lewis, Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, and Porfirio Rubirosa, and reconstructs eras like postwar Las Vegas, 1950s Rome, and 1960s London. Creative projects connected to the biographical work include poetry inspired by newspaper obituaries and a podcast about Lew Wasserman. Years spent as a film critic for The Oregonian (1997–2012) informed the research and perspective.
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