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Nick Pinkerton

not chicken feed by any stretch of the imagination, but less than half of what Magnum Force earned, United Artists executive Stephen Bach reported that it returned rentals of a solidly profitable level, a respectable, if not spectacular, hit for Eastwood. It was Bach who, in his book Final Cut, suggested that Eastwood was unhappy when most of the praise for the film

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Nick Pinkerton

Over the past half decade, word is channeled through agents' offices and industry hangouts that the macho director who sets his films in tough-talking steel mills, sun-split deserts, and torture-happy jungles is a pre-op transsexual, readying himself for his final cut. The same piece mentions Cimino's foray into literary fiction, a novel called Big Jane. Later in life, he would write novels to be translated into French and then published.

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too much material, but not twice as much material as you need. And we had a very unique situation, even at the time, in that contractually we had final cut. Amazing. But it was based on delivering a picture two hours or less. And so we cut it down from

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Sometimes the technicians have the final cut on these things. So it just went right to this? Yes. Mike, where are you? Mike! Now, do you recall how you thought of these, how you came up with the space gate? How you wanted it to be? It was always the chrome poles, but I do have to say that I did get some help from Reggie and his...

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