Clint Eastwood cutout may ride again
Glendale News Press | Brittany Levine
The Clint Eastwood cutout above the Glendale (2) Freeway, just south of the Foothill (210) Freeway between Glendale and La Canada Flintridge, photographed Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. City officials offered to give the cutout an official home after a columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote about multiple acts of vandalism it sustained, and on Thursday, July 18, 2013, the Arts & Culture Commission recommended that the City Council approve making it a city art piece. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer / September 4, 2012)
A cutout of Clint Eastwood dressed as a cowboy that began as a mysterious art piece looking out over Glendale's hillsides is one step closer to becoming official property of the city.
After the actor's likeness was destroyed three times, the artist behind the figure that has sparked interest among hikers in the hills and commuters along the Glendale (2) Freeway decided it might be best if he find a new home for the cutout.
That's when City Hall came into the picture.
City officials offered to give the cutout an official home after a columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote about multiple acts of vandalism it sustained, and Thursday, the Arts & Culture Commission recommended that the City Council approve making it a city art piece.
The first cutout, placed atop a hill west of Verdugo Hills Hospital last spring, showed Eastwood dressed in a poncho and holding a gun, just as he was in the 1964 western, "Fistful of Dollars."
Several months later, Reg Green, a La Cañada Flintridge resident who often hikes the San Rafael Hills, saw a man on his knees, picking up the cutout's broken pieces. Someone had destroyed the figure and the artist who created it was there to pack up the wooden chunks.
Green, 83, felt compelled to tell him about his own connection with public art. In Bodega Bay, where Green used to live, a large memorial featuring 140 bells, one blessed by a former pope, stands in honor of his son, who was shot by Italian robbers during a family vacation in 1994.
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The Clint Eastwood cutout above the Glendale (2) Freeway, just south of the Foothill (210) Freeway between Glendale and La Canada Flintridge, photographed Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. City officials offered to give the cutout an official home after a columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote about multiple acts of vandalism it sustained, and on Thursday, July 18, 2013, the Arts & Culture Commission recommended that the City Council approve making it a city art piece. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer / September 4, 2012)
A cutout of Clint Eastwood dressed as a cowboy that began as a mysterious art piece looking out over Glendale's hillsides is one step closer to becoming official property of the city.
After the actor's likeness was destroyed three times, the artist behind the figure that has sparked interest among hikers in the hills and commuters along the Glendale (2) Freeway decided it might be best if he find a new home for the cutout.
That's when City Hall came into the picture.
City officials offered to give the cutout an official home after a columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote about multiple acts of vandalism it sustained, and Thursday, the Arts & Culture Commission recommended that the City Council approve making it a city art piece.
The first cutout, placed atop a hill west of Verdugo Hills Hospital last spring, showed Eastwood dressed in a poncho and holding a gun, just as he was in the 1964 western, "Fistful of Dollars."
Several months later, Reg Green, a La Cañada Flintridge resident who often hikes the San Rafael Hills, saw a man on his knees, picking up the cutout's broken pieces. Someone had destroyed the figure and the artist who created it was there to pack up the wooden chunks.
Green, 83, felt compelled to tell him about his own connection with public art. In Bodega Bay, where Green used to live, a large memorial featuring 140 bells, one blessed by a former pope, stands in honor of his son, who was shot by Italian robbers during a family vacation in 1994.
Continue reading
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"You have the power to SAVE lives."
To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.
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