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Ye Rustic Confirmation?
The buzz started in North Hollywood and has now moved to Los Feliz. It all points to Clint Eastwood coming out of retirement to fire the .357 Magnum.
Friday, March 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM
By FilmStew Staff
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On Wednesday, March 19th, someone (Kurt) purporting to have recently posted an auto-for-sale ad in Los Angeles started blasting out an email to various movie sites, claiming that a Village Roadshow Productions representative – in contacting him about his 1974 Grand Torino Classic – mentioned that it would be for Dirty Harry 6, a.k.a. Gran Torino.
But it is the separate conversation that took place Thursday, March 20th at Ye Rustic Inn, a delightfully seedy bar in the Los Feliz Village section of Los Angeles, that seems to have really got the motor running. Here’s what the poster for MovieWeb.com reported:
‘I have just returned from a visit to the local watering hole The Ye Ol' Rustic, where one of the regulars and a friend of mine just so happens to work for Malpaso, [Clint] Eastwood's production company,” the fellow drinker says. “He claims that the rumors are true, Gran Torino is the sixth [Dirty] Harry Callahan film.’
For what it’s worth, the only matching L.A. Grand Torino classified ad we could find was from an Ed, not a Kurt; but chances are, if this is not Kurt’s pseudonymous real identity, this guy got a call from the movie folks as well: '[from CraigsList L.A., March 6th, 2008] 1974 Ford grand torino V8 351 Cleveland engine, 2 Door Classic runs good, all original, rightside door, fender have dents. must sell OBO Call ed 626-337-xxxx or email me. I will sell this car with the good offers. must sell good luck. best offers win.NO RESERVE.’
Update - 03/24/08: The L.A. Times' Gold Derby blog picked up on this item, referencing also the fact that FilmJerk.com has a completely different minority view on the matter. According to that site, Eastwood will play a racist old man whose bigoted views are gradually softened after a Vietnamese family moves in next door and he strikes up a friendship with the son, an admirer of his classic titular car. To be quite honest, that sounds way more plausible than he Dirty Harry rumors, Ye Rustic Malpaso sources notwithstanding.
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