Peter Viertel Black Heart", which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990. It is a thinly-disguised account of Viertel's experiences working with film director John Huston while they were making "The African Queen". The central character is scriptwriter Pete Verrill while the Huston character is called John Wilson. Film critic Pauline Kael wrote in 1999 that "White Hunter" was “still the best Hollywood novel I’ve ever come across — and it isn’t even set in Hollywood.” Viertel's opinion of the finished film was tempered by his idea that Huston himself would have preferred a portrayal with more sarcasm. Viertel's
Clint Eastwood in the 1980s 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 Show in the comedy film, "Bronco Billy". Biographer Richard