Thou shalt surely cry

Sorry folks, the new movie Gran Torino was Clint Eastwood's gift to me personally and he's telling me thanks for a life time of support and impersonations.
Yeah, sure, you can go see the movie and enjoy it all you like but it's just for me. Sorry.

It's kind of a goodbye song.


I first started watching Eastwood back in the day when he played on Rawhide. Later, the Spaghetti westerns, and on to other westerns and the Dirty Harry characters. I've seen them all and seen a lot of them many, many times. I can quote entire scenes and was kind of known for that a few years back.
The Dirty Harry scene where he is eating a hot dog while walking down the street and shooting bad guys is possibly my all time favorite movie scene. The "I know what you are thinking" dialogue I have had memorized for decades.

Eastwood is the man. Always has been.


I felt very sad when Paul Newman died. Along with Steve McQueen, Newman was possibly the coolest guy that ever lived.
But, I didn't actually cry.

I will cry when Clint Eastwood dies.

Speaking of crying, I don't remember Eastwood crying in any movie he ever starred in up until Gran Torino. I could be missing something and could have forgotten some scene in which he shed a tear, but I don't think so.
In this movie he actually cried. I covered well, but I kind of teared up with him. Sssshhhhh!!!! Don't tell anyone I cried and I wouldn't tell you if you asked me to my face, but I did.

And, I will cry when Clint Eastwood dies.

Sorry, but he's been a hero for me for most of my life.

Gran Torino was his saying goodbye to me and I want to thank him for a lifetime of great movies and sorry, Clint, if I didn't get some of those impersonations down just perfect.
You deserved the best.