| The Name's The Same | ||
| Clint Eastwood Sharing a name with a star often doesn't make Clint East- wood's day. When he was a kid, says the sheet-metal worker from Belton, Mo., "people thought, 'You must be a tough guy.' I ended up getting my butt whipped a lot." Now he gets a "Yeah, sure" when he orders things over the phone and a steady trickle of 2 a.m. calls from the not entirely sober. "On a daily basis," says the non- famous Eastwood, 32, "some- body makes a comment." He isn't bitter though. East- wood, who was named after a great-uncle, says there has been good along with the bad and ugly. He met his wife, Christine, 29, a nurse, after she had noticed his name on a soft- ball sign-up sheet and wanted |
to see what he looked like. "Then he showed up," she says, "little Clint Eastwood." Big Clint got invited to the other Eastwood's wedding in '87, but they never heard back. "He probably thought it was a |
joke," Eastwood says. The cou- ple now have three kids and a good marriage, no doubt in part because Eastwood is nothing like his namesake's screen per- sona: "I tell my wife I love her every day." |
| [Photo] With a name like mine, he says, "people don't forget you." |