The legendary Clint Eastwood, who has a fistful of Oscars and a Kennedy Center Honor, will be given the Smithsonian Bicentennial Medal in Washington on Feb. 1.
Clint Eastwood (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
The actor and director will be honored at the opening of the Warner Bros. Theater at the National Museum of American History. The event is invitation-only, not making a lot of fans day.
Eastwood and Barry Meyer, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. will do the ribbon cutting. Warner Bros. paid for the renovation of the former auditorium with a $5 million gift.
The theater will be a showcase for American film with mostly free programs, beginning Feb. 4 with a Humphrey Bogart tribute. It will feature an Eastwood series from June 22-24.
Here’s 170 quotes from Eastwood, some part of the lexicon and others smutty.
