Clint Eastwood - Eastwood Dismisses Dirty Harry Comeback Rumours

CLINT EASTWOOD has laughed off claims he is bringing his legendary DIRTY HARRY character back for a new movie - insisting the grizzled cop would be far too old.

It was recently reported the 77-year-old wanted to kill off Harry Callahan in one more movie, 37 years after the character first graced the big screen.

But Eastwood - who will introduce a Cannes Film Festival screening of 1971's Dirty Harry on Thursday (22May08) - insists Callahan would be long retired by now.

He says, "Dirty Harry would not be in a police department at my age."

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Emma Thompson reportedly threatened to lay off her upcoming pic 'Brideshead Revisited' after encyclopedism the film's producers had ordered her co-star Hayley Atwell to lose weight.
25-year-old Atwell said: "I went round to Emma's ace night and she was acquiring rattling angry that I wasn't eating totally the food she was giving me. I told her why and she hit the roof."
Contactmusic.com reports that the two-time Academy Award winner was so outraged when she set up come out that she demanded Miramax producers accept Atwell's size or she'd step down.




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