Autograph Hangings

At long last, I've finally had a lobby card from The Enforcer (1976) with an autographed ticket signed by Clint Eastwood framed and matted.

Above, the Clint Eastwood lobby card and autographed ticket. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

I've had the ticket to the 1980 Election Night Victory Party of Reagan-Bush since that night. As a chairman of my congressional district Reagan-Bush campaign, I was admitted to a private party at the Century Plaza Hotel. There, actor Clint Eastwood, with then-girlfriend Sondra Locke in tow, mingled with the guests and I had him sign my ticket.

I bought the lobby card in the late-1990s at a comic book shop in Woodland Hills.

Now, they are both matted and framed together and hanging in my den.

Above, the George Lazenby and Roy Rogers/Dale
Evans autographed photos. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

While I was having the Eastwood items framed and matted, I also had framed the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans autographed (by both) photo I recently bought in an auction and the George Lazenby autographed photo I got though his website. Both are also now hanging in my den.

When I find a suitable photo of Red Skelton, I will have it and an autographed card by him framed and matted like the Eastwood one.

Any Which Way You Can

While grocery shopping this morning, I found a DVD copy of Any Which Way You Can (1980) in a bin for $5.99. I already have this movie on VHS but figured that I'd get the DVD anyway since the price was right.

I watched it this afternoon. This is the second Philo Beddoe and orangutan Clyde movie. It is hard to believe that this sequel to 1978's Every Which Way But Loose is 31 years old!

It was directed by Buddy Van Horn and starred Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis and Ruth Gordon.

This one involves bare-knuckled brawler Philo Beddoe (Eastwood) having a big fight forced on him after Lynn Halsey-Taylor (Locke) is kidnapped by New York gambling goons. The fight took place in Jackson, Wyoming. A lot of great scenery of Wyoming is featured.

Every Which Way But Loose was not critically acclaimed, but it did make over $75 million at the box office. A sequel was a natural. Unfortunately, Any Which Way You Can was poorly-paced and it lacked a music score. The only music were the music interludes in various nightclubs. Glen Campbell, who announced that he is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease this week, has one of them (singing the title song).

A bit of trivia: During the movie, Beddoe and Halsey-Taylor decide to go to Bakersfield, California for a weekend getaway and stay at the Pink Cloud Motel. The motel, although supposed to be in Bakersfield, is actually on Sepulveda Blvd. in the San Fernando Valley in the North Hills area. It is still there.

Like in Every Which Way But Loose, North Hollywood's Palomino nightclub was prominently featured. It still stands but it ceased being the Palomino in the mid-1990s. It is now a Latino nightclub.

Any Which Way You Can was released on December 17, 1980. A month prior to the movie's release, I attended a private reception at the Century Plaza Hotel on Election Night to celebrate the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency. Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke were also at the reception and I managed to get Eastwood's autograph on my pass ticket (below).