So what if he threatened to kill Michael Moore? Clint Eastwood, while mayor of Carmel-by-the-sea California, repealed a long-standing law which forbade the eating of ice cream on the sidewalk.  That's progress, people.

I'll leave it up to your conscience whether attending one of the few remaining screenings of the Clint Eastwood films which have been playing every Friday at Rosslyn will violate your principles.  What gives me pause is not so much that he's threatened to kill Michael Moore but more that his characters are super-violent archetypes of idealized American masculinity. At least, in the early films.  While I haven't seen any of his recent films, it looks like Letters from Iwo Jima might actually give the enemy (albeit an enemy that no longer exists in the American mind) a sympathetic human story.  Ok, perhaps that really is progress.  I would've seen the film so I could back these judgments up with something, but war movies give me the willies.

Somehow, I missed the memo on this summerlong series of the old Eastwood classics, but fortunately, they've saved the best for last if, like me, you're just finding out.  Tonight's film, one I've never heard of, does very well on rottentomatoes.com.

But, the weather forecast for tonight looks horrible.  Not only is it in the upper 90's (yet again!), but there's a chance of storms.

So, even if the weather ends up being bad, you've got three more chances to see The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Shane and Unforgiven.  And a big thunderstorm tonight will give you an opportunity to see David and Layla, Talk to Me, or Ratatouille somewhere with a roof.

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