I hate Clint Eastwood.

"Sometimes killing is okay." That was the basic message of Unforgiven. Oh how the woman loved her gun-slinger husband, the end titles remind us, immediately after a final round of righteous killings.

"Sometimes killing is okay." That's what I took away from Mystic River, too. My friends said I mis-read the ending, which left me feeling upset over the sympathetic treatment of the killer.

Oh well. Million Dollar Baby has a nice cheery title. Maybe Clint Eastwood's latest movie will change my mind...

Come to think of it, there's even a justifiable-homicide theme in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Eastwood has got to stop doing his own music...

2:43 PM