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10 age-defying celebs: Clint Eastwood
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cosmeticcrush
May 26 2012 at 7:30 AM
You're kidding me. He looks like a corpse fresh out of the ground.
Jeff
Apr 18 2012 at 8:08 AM
You must include in the list the current Philippines senate PResident. Senator Juan Ponce Enrile. He is 88 now.
the_mick
Mar 16 2012 at 11:31 AM
The fact that so many of these people have had plastic surgery dilutes the message of this article: that vigorous physical activity through life is important. Sean Connery's skin is so stretched he doesn't even have the same eyes he did when he was younger. And Clint Eastwood isn't hiding his wrinkles, so I don't know how age defying he is: if you can be chauffered everywhere you have no trouble staying active. My aunt is 91 and often catches a bus to go grocery shopping by herself.
Clint Eastwood
Weathered. Haggard. Crypt Keeper-esque. We beg to differ. Sure, lauded actor/director Clint Eastwood may appear on the grizzled side (hasn’t he always?) but for a man of 81, Dirty Harry is pretty damned sprightly, not to mention productive. And let’s not forget that Eastwood won his first Academy Award at the age of 62 for “Unforgiven” and since then has gone on to direct and/or star in a handful of critically acclaimed films such as “The Changeling,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Mystic River” and “Gran Torino.”
Screenwriter William Goldman remarks on Eastwood’s remarkable longevity in an interview with The Guardian in 2010: “Directors lose it around age 60,” he says. “They're either too rich or they can't get work anymore. And it's physically debilitating work. That's why ‘Gran Torino’ amazes me. Clint Eastwood is nearly 80, and he can still make a movie like that. He is having the most amazing career.”
As a legendary ladies’ man who has fathered seven children by five different women, Eastwood has always been on the decidedly virile side. A life-long non-smoker (despite the sandpaper-y growl) and daily practitioner of transcendental meditation, Eastwood is renowned for being an obsessive health and fitness nut. And no, despite what you may have heard, Mr. Macho is not a vegan.
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