The Other Side of the Wind various reasons. These included John Huston (who was by then terminally ill with emphysemia and was unable to breathe without oxygen tubes), Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Clint Eastwood and George Lucas. Lucas reportedly claimed to be baffled by the footage, saying he didn't know what to do with it, and that it was too avant-garde for a commercial audience. Kodar subsequently accused both Eastwood and Stone of plagiarism from the film, citing Eastwood's performance in "White Hunter Black Heart" (1990) as a copy of John Huston's, including one line of dialogue ("I'm Marvin P. Fassbender." "Of course you are."), and
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