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cover photography: MARTIN SCHOELLER/AUGUST. this page: Getty Images
a man for all seasons Guns. Horses. Cowboys. More guns. Cops, robbers, hard men with soft hearts; old men with tough spirits. Orang-utans, fighter pilots, rugby players, soldiers, lovers, rivals. And guns. For all these things and so much more (jazz musicianship, virtuoso directorial skills) Clint Eastwood has become a revered figure over the past eight decades, making him Hollywood royalty, no less. Yet as he tells his biographer and friend, Richard Schickel, exclusively in this month’s Red Bulletin, fame was never the spur. Neither would a “paycheck and a beer” have satisfied him for any length of time. More interesting by far for a man of so much restless talent, was “exploring outside the box”, reaching for the new – but always with the recognisable hallmarks of restraint, intensity and intelligence. Now 80 and with a body of work behind him that most would be happy to sit back and reflect on, Eastwood is powering ahead with no sign of paying age any respect. His latest project, Hoover, may even be his most compelling yet, taking as it does the life story of former FBI director J Edgar Hoover as its subject. If it proves to be the high point of a hugely distinguished career, Eastwood may, he suggests, finally be satisfied: “[Directing] involves all the elements of filmmaking, rather than just being a component, which an actor is.” Even one so eminent as Mr Eastwood, cannot alas be more than a component of The Red Bulletin. In this issue, the ever-diverse range of topics over which we cast an (always twinkling) eye includes the power of Andy Roddick’s serve; how Formula One steering wheels have evolved from leather ’n’ steel tillers to multi-buttoned, carbon-fibre control centres; a rider’s-eye-view of Megavalanche, the world’s toughest mountain-bike race, and the premiere of the most thrilling B-Boy movie yet committed to celluloid: Turn it Loose. We hope you’ll enjoy that little lot. We hope, in fact, that a couple of hours with The Red Bulletin might even make your day… Your editorial team
Timed to coincide with the Red Bull Air Race in New York, we launched a one-off edition of the magazine in The New York Times, featuring a cover by New Yorker illustrator Bruce McCall. Download it at www.redbull.com
Martin Schoeller’s stunning images of the actor and director grace our cover, and we asked veteran film critic and Clint Eastwood biographer, Richard Schickel (above left), to give us an intimate portrait of his friend at the active age of 80
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