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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and former politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series "Rawhide" (1959–65), Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns ("A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") in the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ("Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "The Enforcer," "Sudden Impact," and "The Dead Pool") during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). These films in particular, as well as others including "Play Misty for Me" (1971), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "Pale Rider" (1985), "In the Line of Fire" (1993), "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), and "Gran Torino" (2008), have all received commercial success and/or critical acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978) and its sequel "Any Which Way You Can" (1980); despite being widely panned by critics they are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation. Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed films in which he did not appear such as "Mystic River" (2003) and "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and "Changeling" (2008), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received considerable critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were panned in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood has seven children by five women, although he has only married twice. An audiophile, Eastwood is also associated with jazz and has composed and performed pieces in several films along with his eldest son, Kyle Eastwood.
Douglas Smith found an abandoned kitten, took him home, he with wife, Rose, named him Mikey. He was often in the garden or at home, but mostly he was gone. They loved and took care of him. When Mikey was still a kitten, Douglas was taking him to the lake, sitting on a bench, watching the swans, talking to him. When Mikey was bigger, he wasn't much home anymore, he spent the whole day elsewhere, but always at exactly 12:00 he came to the bench by the lake where Douglas was already waiting for him. Mikey and Douglas always met at 12:00, Douglas stroked him, read him a news, sometimes took a rod and caught him a fish. Once, when Mikey was 3 years old, he was hunting butterflies in a meadow, suddenly an old Rick Wayne was driving a tractor and had a radio on, and the presenter said it was 11:30, Mikey heard it and set out for Douglas on the bench. Mikey was walking along the side of the road as a drunken driver of a large SUV drove by, ignore and knock Mikey down. Douglas was waiting for him on the bench, but he didn't come. SUV left with blood on the car. Douglas sat waiting for hours. He went home and with Rose looking for Mikey. Douglas then went to the bench for another 10 years, hoping Mikey would show up one day. Mikey was noticed 10 years ago by another man, took him home to Alabama and treated him. Next day, Douglas came to the bench to sit sadly again, hoping that Mickey would return after 10 years. When he saw him sitting on a bench, waiting for him, he cried.
