'Trouble With the Curve' director keeps focus on film

Clint Eastwood's appearance last month at the Republican National Convention will undoubtedly go down as one of the more amusing moments in the 2012 presidential campaign. His performance-art speech with an empty chair also qualifies as one of the most unusual methods employed by a film star to get himself in front of millions of viewers just weeks before his new movie is set to open in theaters.

Nina Metz

September 20, 2012