Million Dollar Babe
An A-List Crowd Salutes the Legendary and "Gorgeous" Clint Eastwood
Reality show personalities and teen heartthrobs come and go as quickly as the tabloids that track their every move in our celebrity-obsessed age. But at last night's Museum of the Moving Image salute to Clint Eastwood, people were reminded what a true star is. The crowd, which included Hilary Swank, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, and Ralph Lauren, found plenty of superlatives for the still-going-strong 79-year-old, who is currently directing his 34th production. "Clint is a legend," Marcia Gay Harden offered. "And gorgeous." Morgan Freeman went further: "No matter what, you can't stop looking at Clint," he said. "And I'm straight."
Despite all the compliments, the four-time Oscar winner was as humble as ever. "You've made a senior citizen very happy tonight," Eastwood told the crowd during his speech. "Luck played a lot in my success. The only thing I've been good at is picking the people around me: casting, crew, and production." He cracked a Dirty Harry smile and added: "And outliving everyone else." But Matt Damon wasn't going to let his Invictus director off that easy. "It's embarrassing to talk about someone you admire when they're here—and it's probably double-embarrassing for him, since he's such a modest guy," Damon started. "But I judge directors by how my wife likes them. And my wife loves Clint Eastwood." Kevin Bacon chimed in: "Every married man in this room has a wife who loves Clint Eastwood."
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