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NEW YORK Clint Eastwood may be the most laid back guy in movies.

At 84, the legendary actor and director continues to distinguish himself by making it all look easy, taking the no muss/no fuss approach to filmmaking and finishing projects on time and on budget.

Known as an action hero and a director of (mostly) drama, Eastwood's latest movie, Jersey Boys, looks like a change in direction. It's an energetic biopic of the famed Four Seasons singing group and it's based on the hit Broadway musical. I asked where I could find that in Hollywood, he drawls, "would somebody give you a script on something else when they have a script that's already a hit."

Intrigued by the story, Eastwood went out and saw the stage production in New York, San Francisco and Las Vegas. What he saw convinced him to go forward with the movie.

"I've done movies on country, jazz and the pop music of the '50s and '60s. I just immerse myself in it," says Eastwood. "I love music. I love doing films that are about musicians or singers."

As for the rock and roll that dominated the 1960s, "I was never a fan of the music of that particular era," says Eastwood. "'Cause I came along before all that.

"But I did like the Four Seasons a lot. Their music was energetic and great fun and superior for that time."

Jersey Boys is set mostly in the 1960s, and it concerns the complicated imitation van cleef zipper necklace history of the guys in the singing group led by Frankie Valli's trademark falsetto voice. (The other members were Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi and Bob Gaudio; the Four Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.)

The guys grew up in hardscrabble New Jersey, where some of the group members did time and local mobsters took a personal interest in their success.

It's the ultimate rags to riches story, with plenty of heartbreak along the way.

Eastwood says he could relate to the characters and even witnessed some of the bias against Italian Americans that existed at the time the Four Seasons were coming up.

"I went to a school that was about half Italian Americans. It was an interesting era in Oakland, California," says Eastwood of his home town, "so I thought I understood about the community."

In an aside, Eastwood adds that he went to look van cleef onyx necklace knock off around New Jersey for himself while making the film, "And I saw that Tommy DeVito has a street named after him." Must be some cultural thing, jokes Eastwood, "Because there's no street named after me in Oakland."

That's about the only accolade he hasn't won. With four Academy Awards under his belt and some 250 other prizes and nominations, including an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in film producing, Eastwood is one of the most respected members of the industry.

He has what he calls a little 'Hitchcock moment' in Jersey Boys. The singers are in a hotel room watching television, and what flashes across the small screen is an episode of Rawhide, starring the young Clint Eastwood.

Indeed, he was building his career as the Four Seasons were building theirs.

"It was about the right era. the same time, around 1959 60, my first break after years of doing bit parts and unappealing roles," says Eastwood of the TV hit, Rawhide.

"It was a chance to gain a lot of experience and spend five or six years working with various directors before working with Sergio and Siegel and all those guys."

'Sergio and Siegel' Sergio Leone and Don Siegel is shorthand for Eastwood's early career, covering as it does Leone's so called Spaghetti Westerns that made Eastwood famous (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad The Ugly), as well as the films with director Siegel (Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules For Sister Sara, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry and Escape From Alcatraz) that replica van cleef and arpels sweet alhambra necklace made Eastwood even more famous.

He's not resting on his laurels. Other men his age might be playing shuffleboard, but Eastwood is currently shooting American Sniper, the biopic of legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. The films stars Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller.

"You just go, 'Okay, this is as good as it's going to get for me.' If you could just get it on every production if I could get a family together like this one has been, it's just very, very lucky."

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