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 1980s and Bernadette Peters." ("New York Times", May 26, 1989.) Clint Eastwood in the 1980s Clint Eastwood directed his first television episode in the 1980s and made several of his most notable films. In 1985, Eastwood directed his first television production in the "Vanessa In The Garden", an episode of"Amazing Stories". It starred Harvey Keitel and Sondra Locke. This was Eastwood's first collaboration with writer/executive producer Steven Spielberg. (Spielberg later produced "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima"). Released on Wednesday, June 11, 1980, Eastwood directed and played the role of the main attraction in a traveling Wild West