TCM to Celebrate Clint Eastwood's 80th Birthday
by Audrey Fine, posted Mar 12th 2010 12:52PM
Go ahead. Make his (birth) day. Incredible though it may seem, Clint Eastwood will be 80 (!) on May 31.
To celebrate, Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to the iconic actor/director with a 24-hour marathon of his movies.
Beginning at 6AM with 1956's 'The First Traveling Salesleady,' the cable network will run many fan favorites, including 'Dirty Harry,' 'Magnum Force' and 'Hang 'Em High.' In addition, the network will air 'The Eastwood Factor,' a documentary narrated by his 'Invictus' star, Morgan Freeman.
Go ahead. Make his (birth) day. Incredible though it may seem, Clint Eastwood will be 80 (!) on May 31.
To celebrate, Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to the iconic actor/director with a 24-hour marathon of his movies.
Beginning at 6AM with 1956's 'The First Traveling Salesleady,' the cable network will run many fan favorites, including 'Dirty Harry,' 'Magnum Force' and 'Hang 'Em High.' In addition, the network will air 'The Eastwood Factor,' a documentary narrated by his 'Invictus' star, Morgan Freeman.
Eastwood and Freeman also teamed in 'Unforgiven' and 'Million Dollar Baby,' for which Eastwood received directing Oscars in 1992 and 2004, respectively.
Eastwood, whose next directorial project, 'Hereafter,' stars his other 'Invictus' actor, Matt Damon, recently signed on to helm a biopic on famed FBI Chief, J.Edgar Hoover for Imagine Entertainment.
