They didn’t just discourage him, they actively tried to stop him. Studio executives, financial adviserss, industry insiders, all telling Clint Eastwood the same…
Everyone in that press room was waiting for Clint Eastwood to react. The reporter’s question was insulting, deliberate, mean. People expected anger, or…
A famous actor demanded co-director credit on Clint Eastwood’s film, saying, “I’m the real creative force here.” Clint fired him and replaced him…
A film critic called Clint Eastwood an embarrassment to cinema in a major newspaper. The Academy gave Clint the best director Oscar that…
They Laughed at His Corn Cribs for 20 Years — Then the Propane Ran Out and His Was the Only Dry Corn
There’s a sound that corn makes when it’s drying properly. Not the roar of a propane burner forcing 200 degree air through a…
August of 1945, Harold Benning stands at the fence line of his 80 acre wheat parcel in me County, Kansas. Motor oil dried…
A suitcase hit the front porch and burst open. Clothes scattered across wet concrete. A hand shoved hard between her shoulder blades. An…
The barn with my father’s tools. The garden that was coming back from what Dakota had done to it. The roses replanted from…
Henderson stood on her steps and looked at the devastation of her garden and did not say anything. The fury had gone out…
“You’re Too Big…You Won’t Fit Me”—The Shy Rancher Ordered a Mail-Order Bride and Got a Huge Surprise
There is a drawer in the back bedroom of the Sloan Ranch House that nobody opens anymore except me. It is a small…