Political life of Clint Eastwood Political life of Clint Eastwood American actor and director Clint Eastwood has long shown an interest in politics. He won election as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in April 1986 and in 2001, Governor Gray Davis appointed the Oscar-winner to the California State Park and Recreation Commission. Eastwood endorsed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election and delivered a prime time address at the 2012 Republican National Convention, where he delivered a speech addressed to an empty chair representing Barack Obama. During a screening of his 1992 film "Unforgiven" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2017, as
Carmel Myers Mary Cossette (b. 1941). After their marriage, Myers and Blum purchased Gloria Swanson’s Sunset Boulevard home. After Blum's death Myers married Paramount Pictures executive Al Schwalberg. Carmel Myers Carmel Myers (April 4, 1899 – November 9, 1980) was an American actress who achieved her greatest successes in silent film. Myers was born in San Francisco, the daughter of an Australian rabbi and Austrian Jewish mother. Her father became well-connected with California's emerging film industry, and introduced her to film pioneer D. W. Griffith, who gave Carmel a small part in "Intolerance" (1916). Myers also got her brother Zion Myers into