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LessAspin

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9. Clint Eastwood

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 10:20 PM

Feb 23

James Coburn was actually the first choice of Sergio Leone to star ✨ in his spaghetti 🍝 western trilogy.

Coburn was too expensive 💰 so Clint Eastwood got it and the rest is history.

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Ha ha, In Like Flint......forerunner of "Bond, James Bond" [View all] a kennedy Feb 22 OP

Lee J. Cobb! displacedvermoter Feb 22 #1

Ok, ok, I thought you were nuts....Cobb. a kennedy Feb 22 #6

I love those Flint movies, but the first Bond flick pre-dated the first Flint film by four years. Doodley Feb 22 #2

Ooooooops.....sorry, just lipping off. a kennedy Feb 22 #3

Don't be sorry! Those movies are a lot of fun! Doodley Feb 22 #4

and he's so skinny!!!! a kennedy Feb 22 #5

In like flint......WOMEN ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!! And Flint will NEVER let that a kennedy Feb 22 #7

My favorites scene is when he is in the nightclub in Marseille displacedvermoter Feb 23 #8

Clint Eastwood LessAspin Feb 23 #9