EASTWOOD: FIREBIRD!

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S3 E11 FIREBIRD! 

1982's FIREFOX was not about a future web browser but about a Soviet plane during the Cold War that you can fly with your brain or eyes or showtunes. Just go with it - Brain Plane. Eastwood plays the only man that can sneak into  Soviet Russia and steal the plane and take it home so America can use it to bomb them. Lotsa spycraft-type hijinks ensue before he can try and steal the plane. Does he? Are there accents in this movie? Does Eastwood attempt speaking Russian?!?!?

1988's BIRD, the first film of Eastwood's directorial career he did not star in since podcast fave BREEZY in 1973 (S2 E7)! He would not direct another he did not star in again until 1995's less-than-good Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (S2 E10).  A passion project about troubled jazz legend Charlie Parker, Bird was a major turning point for Eastwood as a director and how critics viewed him. But is it any good or is it one riff too many with excessive improvisation gumming up the story? (we don't understand Jazz so we hope that reference works for jazz fanatics). Celebrity chef/screenwriter Erik joins us once again on tenor sax!

FIREFOX 00:03:24

BIRD 00:39:11