Clint Eastwood's Enduring Significance

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May 31, 2013

Clint Eastwood's Enduring Significance

By Carl M. Cannon

Good morning, it’s May 31. Today is the 83rd birthday of an actor, director, social commentator, and local California politician who is still occasionally greeted by residents of Carmel as “Mr. Mayor.” The rest of us know him as Clint Eastwood.

 

The Hollywood star caused a stir at last summer’s Republican National Convention when he pretended to address President Obama while talking to an empty chair on stage. But it wasn’t, shall we say, his first rodeo.

 

Clinton Eastwood Jr. was born in San Francisco on May 31, 1930, and kicked around Northern California with his family while his father took what work he could find during the Great Depression.

 

In the 21st century, the San Francisco Bay Area is a beacon of the New Economy, with its high-tech start-ups, Pacific Rim banking, and imposing housing prices. It wasn’t like that in the 1930s, however, and when Clinton Eastwood narrated Chrysler’s gritty, Detroit-based Super Bowl ads in February 2012, he was speaking from a familiar place – his own childhood.

 

In the 1920s, Clinton Eastwood Sr. had been a star athlete for the academically rigorous Piedmont High School in the East Bay, but as his introverted, but rebellious, son was preparing to enroll there he was

 

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