Colin Covert: Lost in translation–Clint Eastwood’s Italian and Quincy Jone’s style

Posted on February 25th, 2007 – 10:11 PM
By Sara Glassman

0225_clint.jpgIs Eastwood translating Morricone’s acceptance speech in Italian on the fly, or getting the English version off a teleprompter? Either way, it’s moving to see them side by side four decades after they burst onto the world cinema scene in Sergio Leone’s great Westerns. Quincy Jones is up in the skybox, applauding. I think he’s wearing one of the robes from “Curse of the Golden Flower.” Stay away from large-scale prints, Q.

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