Clint Eastwood by critics. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" wrote that film was "...the best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while", and praised Eastwood's directing, intricately juxtaposing the old West and the new West. Later that year, Eastwood starred in "Any Which Way You Can", the sequel to "Every Which Way But Loose". The film received a number of bad reviews from critics, although Maslin described it as "funnier and even better than its predecessor". Released over the Christmas season of 1980, "Any Which Way You Can" was a major box office success and ranked among the
Clint Eastwood in the 1960s never met Leone in advance, Eastwood arrived in Rome in early 1964 and was met by Hersent, along with Leone's assistants and a few journalists. Eastwood met Leone later that day. Leone said, "Clint arrived, dressed with exactly the same bad taste as American students. I didn't care. It was his face and his way of walking that I was interested in". Eastwood was instrumental in creating the Man With No Name character's distinctive visual style that appeared throughout the "Dollars" trilogy. He brought his own wardrobe: black jeans he'd purchased from a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, which he had