Tuesday, January 11, 2005
You've Come A Long Way, Baby...
That was actually a cigarette commercial jingle, back before such TV ads were banned in the mid-70s, for Virginia Slims, which they were pitching to the lungs of liberated ladies... But it applies to the former mayor of Carmel, Mr Clinton Eastwood, junior, and his blossoming from action hero (bridging the western and inner-city-crime eras of that genre) to brilliantly subtle actor/director. All this, to add my accolades to Million Dollar Baby, which I saw Sunday with Christi - this film is yet another high point for the man as both actor and director. Mind you, I am totally uninterested in boxing, and that didn't even matter here. It's a character movie, but the pacing is just right, with deep currents swirling beneath its wry and weathered surface, it's life-sized but packs a wallop... What beauty in the etched, ravaged, but endlessly expressive faces of Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, their talent aging like vintage wine. And Hilary Swank leaves an indelible impression in her second role of a lifetime... this entry's permalink
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