One of the most exciting days of my life was when I ran into Clint Eastwood at Warner Bros. He was returning from lunch at the Burbank campus’ cafeteria (take away, judging by the sandwich-sized bag he was carrying) with a couple of execs, an older chap I didn’t recognize, and one I did – Robert Duvall (who, like Eastwood, also has a production company on the lot). Naturally, I had to stop the men, shake Eastwood’s hand, congratulate both him and Duvall on their fine work, and – shamelessly enough – admit to my namesake that my parents had decided to go with ‘Clint’ after a viewing of “Dirty Harry” on the box. I believe he smirked. Amused, he was.

Til this day, I still think about the other things I could’ve said to the man – like, ‘Why did you do Pink Cadillac?’, ‘How was it being tied up by Sonia Braga in The Rookie – and did she take advantage of the situation?’, ‘Where’s Sandra Locke hiding?’, and, most importantly, ‘Thank you for being the one filmmaker who, year after year, delivers impeccable entertainment’.

Eastwood’s next project was announced today; it’s a biopic on J.Edgar Hoover, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Written by Dustin Lance Black (“Milk”), and produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, the flick will fix on Hoover’s concocting of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and how he later milked his powerful position to do some rather seedy things. Many biographies (and Oliver Stone’s “Nixon”) assert that Hoover was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser.

The pic, though originally set up at Universal, is now – not surprising, considering that’s who Eastwood makes his flicks for these days; for the most part, anyway – is with Warner Bros.