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Clint Eastwood, the chair, 'SNL' and 'Trouble with the Curve'
Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures | Clint Eastwood as Gus in a scene from “Trouble with the Curve.” The film, about an aging and ailing baseball scout, will be released on Sept. 21, 2012.
The one thing Clint Eastwood could not have known — or may well have known because after all, he's a smart guy — is that his RNC soliloquy with a chair was likely to upstage his promotional efforts on behalf of “Trouble with the Curve,” out this Friday. Everywhere he goes now — CNN over the weekend, “Good Morning America” right now — the only question anyone wants to ask is: Why? Chair? He is of course is happy to oblige but maybe happier to oblige questions about the movie. But those are the risks you take — stage one of the greatest TV moments in political convention history and people want to talk about it. (A movie? Fine . . . there are a lot of those out there, however.)
And to demonstrate how much Clint and the Chair have entered the popular consciousness, one of the true arbiters of entering the popular consciousness — “Saturday Night Live” — bowed this memorable Bill Hader sketch on the season premiere. Take a look if you haven't seen either — hard to believe in the latter case because it's been everywhere. (And it is pretty funny, too.)
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