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From: nancy@enmasse.UUCP (Nancy Werlin)
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Subject: Re: good Eastwood movies
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 17:34:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 17:34:08 1985
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> >  Mark Leeper:
> >     THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES [ ... is possibly ... ] the best film
> >     Eastwood has directed and probably the best he has been in.

>     Dennis Doubleday:
>        I think JOSIE WALES is great, too, but I can't rank it that high 
>        in the Eastwood canon, though, not when it includes masterpieces 
>        like  ...  THE BEGUILED.


Readers, please note moi's judicious editing of the two articles above,
in which I repeat the gist of the matter (i.e., only the
point about which I have something to say), while indicating
the extracted parts via ellipses and brackets.  Ah.
Lovely.  A prime example of netiquette.  *I* don't waste 
time and space and money on USENET.  But hold your applause --
spare my blushes.  Yes.

But where was I?  Of course.  Mr. Eastwood.  THE BEGUILED.  

First, let me say: I am not an Eastwood fan.  To tell truth
(and I sometimes do), I categorize *Dirty Harry* movies
(and I do not mean "films," I mean "movies," and perhaps
I even mean "flicks" -- but then again perhaps not...) alongside of
football; i.e., I am not interested.  Perhaps one day I might
be persuaded to take an interest...but I will need persuasion.
Large amounts of persuasion.  

You may ask, then, why I would have seen THE BEGUILED (which,
*spoiler!* I plan to recommend).  Well, since you ask, I will tell
you: pure inertia.   Yes, I simply could not drag myself as
far as the television knob so as to change the channel or turn
the thing off.  On came the Movie of the Week and there I
was, watching it.  Helpless.   

In fact, there we both were, Clint and I, 
somewhere in the South during the Civil War:  
Clint, a wounded Yankee with a game leg,
stranded near a Ladies' Academy, about to get into youcanjustguess
what trouble; and I, a lazy Yankee with a bowl of popcorn
(no doubt), watching shamelessly.  

Okay, so the plot was obvious, for the most part.
You all know, whether or not you've seen this movie,
exactly what happens to Clint when he is taken into
the care of the nubile young women, and their two
headmistresses, who are waiting out the war at the School.
Yes yes.  Sexual frustration, jealousy, competition,
hope, True Love, and tragedy.  Yes yes.  All very obvious.
I watched every last bit of it.  I may even have forgotten
to eat a few pieces of popcorn.

Speaking of food, an important element in this movie's plot is
mushrooms.  This may be one reason that I liked 
the movie so much; I am fond of mushrooms.  I especially
like marinated mushrooms, and if anyone has a recipe,
please send it on.  Writing this paragraph, actually,
makes me feel a bit like Nora Ephron, 
and if you haven't read *Heartburn*, well, you
should.   The movie will star Meryl Streep, so they say,
and you can make what you want of that.  I myself am
rather sick of her.   Clint became sick, too, from the
mushrooms (that's the spoiler, folks) and I cried.
Yes, I did. 

So I think all you folks who tuned out of this discussion
because Clint Eastwood isn't, say, Dustin Hoffman (or
Meryl Streep), might want to see THE BEGUILED (which
I'd rather though was titled BEGUILED) anyway.

Nancy Werlin
EnMasse Computer Corp.
Acton, MA


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