I must thank our member Jayne Smart for bringing this newly posted interview to my attention. It’s a great piece featuring Clint and long-time host of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson. Always light-hearted, Clint had just appeared on the Academy Awards for 1973, and of course, that infamous opening monologue which Clint was pushed into presenting on Charlton Heston’s behalf. Heston was caught on the highway with a flat tire. Clint had to struggle through Heston’s speech with all of the Moses references, The Ten Commandments et al. Clint explains of the manic mayhem that was going on back stage. Reading from ‘idiot cards’, Carson reminds Clint about his desperate plea to ‘flip the card man, this aint my bag’ - which is all great fun. Clint was also there promoting his latest film for Universal, High Plains Drifter. The clip from the film has been edited out.
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