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 1990s 1956 "The Searchers". Richard Corliss in "Time" wrote that the film was "Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism—on all those burdens he has been carrying with such grace for decades". The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Director for Eastwood. Eastwood won both awards000. Eastwood also garnered the Best Director Award from the National Society of Film Critics. Later in 1993, Eastwood directed and co-starred with Kevin Costner in "A Perfect World". Set in the 1960s, similar to "Lonely Are the Brave", it relates the story of a doomed character pursued by state