ABSTRACT
In an article in Esquire in July 1985 (111), it was reported that Eastwood “owns an informal option” on a screenplay called “Sacrilege,” worked up by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw. These two people had previously been responsible for the best-selling book Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach, which despite its subtitle can only be described as a somewhat eccentric guide to some of the outer reaches of the world of physical and emotional self-help. Eastwood had figured in the book, under the pseudonym “Mr. Smith,” as a devotee of this health program, and Jeffrey Ryder, in his book Clint Eastwood, gives an idea of the array of vitamins and drugs that the program encouraged Eastwood to take and that he used daily to increase his physical well-being: choline, selenium, Deanol, Hydergine, DMSO, L-arginine, L-dopa, plain old vitamin C, pyrollidone carboxylic acid, canthaxanthin, RNA, and a “nutrient mix of fifteen or so assorted vitamins and minerals” (12-13).
