As a former film journalist, I enjoyed Catherine Shoard’s piece on the discredited Clint Eastwood “interview” and the craft of film journalism (The good, the bad and the ugly, 4 June) – and can only recommend readers to the interview scene in Notting Hill.
The truth really is stranger than even that fiction. My own career included, on the one hand, a genuine, solo, hour-long interview with Clint Eastwood for an Oscars supplement of this very paper in 1993, but, on the other, too many of the film festival roundtable interviews that Shoard describes.
