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Clint Eastwood

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The roles that Eastwood has played, and the films that he has directed, cannot be disentangled from the nature of the American culture of the last quarter century, its fantasies and its realities.
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Author Edward Gallafent, commenting on Eastwood's impact on film from the 1970s to 1990s
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Gallafent, Edward (1994). Clint Eastwood. p. 10. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0826406653.

 
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