Clint Eastwood "joking around" with Michael Moore ("I'll kill you")...

[sonicx]

http://www.nydailynews.com/01-13-2005/news/col/story/270928p-231851c.html

Clint Eastwood squinted like Dirty Harry Tuesday night as he took aim at Michael Moore.

"Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common - we both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression," Eastwood told the star-dotted crowd attending the National Board of Review awards dinner at Tavern on the Green, where Eastwood picked up a Special Filmmaking Achievement prize for "Million Dollar Baby."

Then, the Republican-leaning actor/director advised the lefty filmmaker: "But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera - I'll kill you."

The audience erupted in laughter, and Eastwood grinned dangerously.

"I mean it," he added, provoking more guffaws.

Sitting well out of range at a table in back, Moore - who received a special "Freedom of Expression" award for his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11" - chuckled.

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[Cocoa]

1. of course he was

NewsMax ran this story with the headline, "Eastwood issues death threat against Michael Moore" or something similarly ridiculous. I'm sure the Freepers fell for it.

[sonicx]

3. Yeah, but people seem to love to make jokes about killing him...

I bet the media would laugh their asses off if Moore joked about killing a RWer...

[theboss]

8. Plenty of people here fell for it too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1493208

[sonicx]

9. Most people in that thread took it as a joke, but it's still a dumb joke..

[rinsd]

2. It's Dirty Harry crissakes! (nt)

[immoderate]

10. I wish they would re-release the soundtrack of "The Gauntlet" on CD!

Eastwood plays a character. His art is more subtle than most people think, and I think his politics are too.

--IMM

[rinsd]

11. I would tend to agree (nt)

[bobbyboucher]

4. He's probably smarting over Moore's interview with

Charleton Heston in "Bowling for Columbine". The old coot was well past "sometzimers" at that point.

But it does sound like a threat to me. Especially when you follow it up with, "I mean it".

[sonicx]

6. yeah, maybe people thought it was such a silly thing to say that they...

thought it had to be a joke.

[aden_nak]

5. The joke only works if Eastwood agrees that Moore's films are powerful.

[enki23]

7. mr eastwood probably just guaranteed...

that michael moore will most likely, at some point, show up at his door with a camera.