Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg have each won two Best Director Oscars. They are peers and, by all accounts, friends. But they couldn't be more different as filmmakers.
Eastwood was born in 1930. He was surly, rebellious and athletic. While preparing to get shipped out to the Korean War in the 1950s, he reportedly survived a plane crash of a Douglas AD bomber that crashed into the Pacific Ocean in Marin County, just north of his hometown San Francisco; he swam two miles back to shore and was subsequently discharged. He later found moderate fame as cowboy Rowdy Yates in the CBS television series "Rawhide" before flying off to Spain and teaming up with Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone to make the Spaghetti Western "Dollars Trilogy." In 1971, he became a double threat by directing and sta