Clint Eastwood

Trivia question: who uttered the line "Do you feel lucky, punk?"That's right: nobody! Because Clint Eastwood, in 'Dirty Harry', actually says: "Ask yourself one question: do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?"More...

Boris Karloff fa colazione ancora vestito della maschera di Frankenstein, capolavoro di James Whale, datato 1931. Le smorfie di James Dean sul set di Gioventù bruciata, il film che lo ha reso eterno del 1955. O ancora Clint Eastwood seduto sulla sedia di Sergio Leone durante le riprese di Per qualche dollaro in più, il secondo lungometraggio della trilogia western del regista romano.Scene da dietro le quinte che rileggono e mostrano aspetti non consueti dei protagonisti di 100 film che hanno segnato la storia del cinema. Cento immagini, raccolte sul sito Imgur, che in ordine cronologico dal 1931 ai nostri giorni, fanno rivivere l'emozione di lungometraggi indimenticabili. Prima e dopo che si apra il sipario.More...

Every year the order changes, but some franchises can’t seem to get ahead. There will be plenty of in-depth and serious Draft Lottery coverage today, but indulge me for a moment in a thought experiment, and consider a draft that isn’t decided by wins and losses and a somewhat transparent lottery, but on who absolutely needs a higher position in the draft, and who most deserves to turn their respective team around. Of course, as Clint Eastwood declares in Unforgiven, “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it, kid.” Let’s say teams drafted not on merit, or the luck of a ping-pong ball’s bounce, but on something resembling some crude form of justice. Leaving aside the large possibility that players like Nerlens Noel or Ben McLemore aren’t going to single-handedly turn a franchise within a year’s time, the NBA Draft serves as a yearly tiny hope that the rich won’t get richer, and that perennially pitiful squads will take that first crucial step in turning things around. Using a rigorously critical-scientific approach, I’ve ranked which teams deserve that coveted #1 pick from most to least. 1. Charlotte Bobcats This shouldn’t even be close. The Bobcats are kind of like a nerd who gets picked on in high school that becomes a nerd who gets picked on in college that transforms into a guy who can’t pay his mortgage and doesn’t know how to use soap. This franchise is just bleak. Kemba Walker is feisty enough and the tenacity of Michael Kidd-Gilcrhist can only be admired, but this is just a depressing operation doubling as some kind of Shakespearean humility lesson for Michael Jordan. Following the Bobcats is like watching Midnight Cowboy with someone you hate. It’s not easy. If any group of fans deserves hope it is the Bobcats faithful, whom I know must exist. 2. Toronto Raptors Another mess, though at least they have a (comparatively) storied past and the fading nostalgia of Vince Carter in his prime as well as Chris Bosh. The Raptors can use all the help they can get with something of a schizophrenic game plan. 3. Orlando Magic The Orlando Magic deserve the top pick based merely on the agony a certain All-Star center inflicted on their collective psyche for over a year. They have a few good pieces and a coach that showed flashes of really getting through to his hopelessly outmatched team this past season, and hey, a successful team in Orlando can only be good for the league as a counterweight to the giants in Miami. 4. Sacramento Kings Based once again on recompense for mental anguish, the Kings deserve a break, though I’m hesitant to put them any higher than 4th since they have been stockpiling high draft picks for what seems an eternity without any great leap forward. I tend to look at the Kings like a bizarre world version of the Thunder, but one that could benefit from owners that actually care about the team. 5. Minnesota Timberwolves The Timberwolves are another tragic what-if story from last season. A wonderfully strange roster full of mercurial talent and an improving star are derailed by injuries pretty much from top to bottom. Minnesota has been aching to return to winning since Kevin Garnett bolted. On the other hand, what they should really do is take their 5th Pick in the We Deserve It Draft and package it with Derrick Williams and try to trade for some long-range bombers or maybe for not Luke Ridnour. 6. Philadelphia 76ers Our boys from Philly have really been through the ringer. The Andrew Bynum saga. The Curse of Doug Collins in Year 3. Julius Irving isn’t going to save them. But they do have the good fortune to have more than a few NBA quality talents, which knocks them down some pegs in this draft. Heck, they took the Celtics to 7 games last year. The Bobcats got to the playoffs once! 7. Utah Jazz A high pick in the draft is not going to fix rotations and developing young talent. Much as it would be nice for the Jazz and their armada of bigs to have put it all together, I can’t say they deserve it. 8. Phoeni

Roster notes - Larry Mayer: The Bears on Friday agreed to terms with first-round draft pick Kyle Long on a four-year contract plus an option. Sam Householder: Bears sign first round pick Long to 4-year deal Veteran O-Line coach: ‘Concerned’ over Kyle Long missing offseason programs - Tony Wise on The McNeil and Spiegel Show. Team report - Everything you wanted to know about the state of the team but were afraid to ask. Follow WCG on Twitter; like us on Facebook (& click on 'Subscribed to'). Click for Chicago Bears Tickets for next season. Check out David "OSS" Taylor's CheekyMonkeyArt prints and shirts. ---------- Bearsss Josh McCown fits the profile for NFL backup QB - Dan Pompei: There aren't many, and certainly not many available, who bring more to role than Bears' No. 2. T.J. Shouse: Will Bears current QB depth chart be good enough? NFC minicamp storylines - For the Bears, Gregg Rosenthal lists Carimi's absence, the battle for the starting MLB job, and Earl Bennett carving out a role in the offense again now that Hester's strictly a returner. NFCN Blog - Kevin Seifert: We have two offenses that have supported 88-plus receptions by a RB in previous incarnations. Could Reggie Bush or Matt Forte approach that number? Bears overtaking Packers? - Moon Mullin Ted Phillips, who has always resisted offering predictions on matters like win totals, isn’t about to declare the Green Bay mountain climbed just yet. Steven Schweickert: Have Bears closed the talent gap? What will the O-Line look like in '13? - Maggie Hendricks breaks it down. NFCN Blog - Kevin Seifert's take on Football Outsiders' assessment of the NFCN's remaining team needs. For the Bears, it's more depth at WR. Steven Schweickert: Do Bears still have a problem at Receiver? NFCN Blog - Kevin Seifert takes a look at key players for each NFCN team who are coming back from injuries: "With all the other changes in the organization this offseason, the Bears need the reliability that Robbie Gould provides." Bears doing good things - Larry Mayer: Adam Podlesh organizing benefit for young cancer patient; Bears presented with two awards for community service. ---------- Ditka Four downs with Ditka - Da Coach don't do Twitter, 'cos then Twitter itself would have to follow Da Coach. ---------- Polish sausage NFP Sunday Blitz - Dan Pompei: Schiano finally gets his man at QB; best DT duos of all time; and all the latest around the league. Know thy enemy: Packers - Mike Vandermause has an apoplectic fit at the notion that anyone could question Mike McCarthy's job status. Know thy enemy: Vikings - Jim Ragsdale: A bailout of the $977 million Vikings stadium by smokers and businesses was proposed by Gov. Mark Dayton. John Holler: Smokers getting burned again. Worst Player Offseason Power Rankings - Chris Burke found ten players who are having worse offseasons than Gabe Carimi. No squealing, remember that it's all in your head.

The St. Louis Cardinals are 25% done with their regular season. That’s sad in the same way that eating 25% of a cookie is sad. It means you don’t have the whole cookie anymore but still you’ve got enough cookie left to enjoy and the memory of the cookie you just ate is right on your tongue and anyway, what is with you and your cookie infatuation? Every season has multiple stories so it stands to reason, sits near logic and just generally makes sense that this quarter of a season has had multiple stories. And, as is often the case for a team in first place, most of these stories are, to borrow a phrase from my 7-year-old nephew, “Neato” (we’re thinking Washington University may be in his future). Some of these stories are not neato and it behooves us to look in to them as well because we are exceptional people who could more than likely solve all the teams’ problems from the comfort of our living rooms whilst drinking rum. We’re smart like that. Because nobody knew better than the genius who decided that Lee Van Cleef should star in westerns with Clint Eastwood, I will now delve into the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Cardinal’s quarter season. The Good Good thing number one and the best thing by far in this young season: the starting rotation. Our rotation is a gorgeous woman in a giving mood, the sun shining on a beautiful day, a cold beer and a warm steak… it’s like nothing bad has happened and nothing could ever hurt us and oh my god I just want to wrap myself up in the rotation and sleep here and no harm will come to me because God loves us all. Now, the ugly little imp who sits at my desk and spikes my coffee with Klonopin is currently muttering words like “regression” and “unsustainable” and I get where he’s coming from but you know what? I refuse to be the jerk at the blackjack table who professes that his luck will soon run out. Maybe our rotation’s success is sustainable, maybe miracles happen and maybe just maybe that stupid imp will be wrong for once in his mathematically reliant life. Good thing number two is Matt Carpenter. Hey you guys, the Cardinals converted a third baseman to play second and not only is he doing so adequately, he’s providing the best offense we’ve seen at the position since the mid-nineties. If Carpenter were to continue hitting like he’s hitting and fielding like he’s fielding, he will provide us with more VORP in a year than any Cardinal second baseman since Tommy Motherhumping Herr. That is downright amazing. Yet because good thing number one is so awesome, good thing number two barely gets mentioned. Think about that for a second: one of the most devout and attentive fan bases in baseball has a player kicking butt while playing out of position and he’s not even the number one story of the first quarter season because our starting rotation makes all rotations that can possibly rotate, vibrate or oscillate seem static and flaccid by comparison. Neat. O. Good thing number three is simply that most of those paid to play and expected to perform are doing just that. Molina, Holliday, Jay, Beltran and Craig are all coming through, with varying degrees of success (Craig and Molina are having power shortages, Jay slumped through April, etc.). I guess what I’m saying here is, the lineup’s alright. Good thing number last is that Pete Kozma is a shortstop and Ryan Jackson seems to be getting better every day, so shortstop, once thought to be the feces-infested Carnival Cruise Line of Cardinal issues is actually just a position that folks play at replacement level for cheap. Nothing wrong with that. The Bad The bullpen is only bad in my humble quarter season take because it seems to be in the process of being fixed and I live my observational baseball life by one simple rule: never

Web designers and developers of the world, listen up. Your clients don’t want jumbled Lorem Ipsum placeholder text – they want proper, meaningful sentences. Better still, they want the wise words from some of Hollywood’s finest. This, at least, is according to the good folks behind Picksum Ipsum, a quirky Web app that offers up quotes from Morgan Freeman, Jim Carrey, Clint Eastwood and Michael Caine, instead of a meaningless malaise of text. How it works First up, pick your protagonist from the top of the page. It’s worth adding here there’s a little ‘Rumble’ feature that lets you put two of the actors up against each other. Indicate how many paragraphs of text you want and whether you’d like the HTML tags or not. Then, you’re served up a page of text which you can simply copy/paste to your site. Here’s a sample of what Mr. Clint Eastwood has to say for himself, which seems to be very Dirty Harry-centric: “This is my gun, Clyde! When a naked man’s chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he’s not out collecting for the Red Cross. You want a guarantee, buy a toaster. Man’s gotta know his limitations. You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. Here. Put that in your report!” AND “I may have found a way out of here. Well, do you have anything to say for yourself? This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it. don’t p!ss down my back and tell me it’s raining. Ever notice how sometimes you come across somebody you shouldn’t have F**ked with? Well, I’m that guy. What you have to ask yourself is, do I feel lucky. Well do ya’ punk? Are you feeling lucky punk.” Picksum Ipsum is the handiwork of Adam Collins and Sam Colledge, designers and developers at UK-based agency Create. “Myself and Sam were getting more and more frustrated at having to use boring lorem ipsum as filler text on our homepage designs” says Collins.” So we have put together a movie alternative to lorem ipsum. It’s a great little tool and I am sure Web designers will love it.” There’s no shortage of Lorem Ipsum alternatives, including Slipsum which is a Samuel L. Jackson-focused version that uses shall we say ‘colorful’ language. We also recently covered Lorempixel, which dynamically generates placeholder images. But for movie fans, Picksum Ipsum is a fun and free addition. ? Picksum Ipsum Feature Image Credit – AFP/Getty

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Bill Hader, known for his impersonations of celebs like Clint Eastwood and Julian Assange, has announced that he’ll be leaving “Saturday Night Live” when this season is over. Hader is also a popular face in films and has written for “South Park”. He’s also found success doing voice work in films like “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs”. For now, he hasn’t said what his plans are for the immediate future, just that he feels it’s his time to go. “It was a hard decision, but it has to happen at some point,” Hader said. “It got to a point where I said, ‘Maybe it’s just time to go.’” Hader will be a big lose for the show, which has struggled to maintain a consistent audience base in recent years following the departure of Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey. Besides his impersonations, he also did original characters like “Stefon” and “Herb Welch”.

Clint Eastwood stood behind the podium at Monday’s “Backstage at the Geffen,” getting ready to present an award to his longtime attorney Bruce Ramer, the founding chairman of the playhouse's board.