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The movies don't lie: Clint Eastwood really does have a gaze that can boil water from 30 paces. A Japanese journalist wished him a happy birthday at a press conference for his film The Changeling (he turns 78 on May 31) and he gave her a mock furious look.
“It's not for at least another week,” he said, “So leave me in peace.” Eastwood is at Cannes, where he's previously been head of the jury, with a period movie about a mother (Angelina Jolie) searching for her missing son.
The director also put to rest any notions that he'd once again be bothering punks about the state of their luckiness – Eastwood said he had no plans to play Dirty Harry Callahan again. “No, I am,” Jolie said. “Dirty Harriet,” Eastwood shot back.
Someone tried to ask about comments Spike Lee apparently made earlier this morning, criticizing movies like Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers for not including enough black soldiers (I didn't actually hear Lee's comments.) The moderator cut the question off, though, so we didn't hear Eastwood's response. Too bad – I'd like to have felt the nuclear after burn of that look.
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