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What is it about Clint Eastwood that still has women drooling over him at the tender age of 68?
Clint (Mr Macho) Eastwood is now as much director as actor and his new movie Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil opens here on April 17.
It is Eastwood's adaptation of John Berendt's bestselling book about a sensational murder trial in Savannah, Georgia. But it's had a lukewarm reception in America.
The film is Clint Eastwood's 20th film as a director. But for a man whose career has remained resolutely in the public eye, he's as enigmatic as ever.
For many fans he will always be The Man With No Name from his Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns or the tough cop from the Dirty Harry films.
His first film as director was Play Misty For Me in 1971, in which he was a DJ stalked by a psychotic fan.
Eastwood's marriages have attracted almost as much attention as his films. He has seven children by five different women - four out of wedlock.
His 13-year liaison with Sondra Locke turned sour in her much-publicised 1989 palimony suit, accusing him of cruelty. The lawsuit was settled out of court.
In 1996 she sued him for fraud, accusing him of a phoney movie deal that had sabotaged her career. Eastwood again settled the lawsuit.
Clint's current wife is 32-year-old Dina Ruiz, 36 years his junior, whom he married in 1996.
"I've ended up with someone I adore and I truly believe adores me," he says, after years of tangled relationships.
These days he's more at ease with himself, although he's never been without a woman in his life. Quite an irony for a man whose movie parts have always defined him as the quintessential loner.
As the American critic, Richard Jameson defined Eastwood's charisma: "No movie star of his magnitude has ever been so private at the centre of celebrity."
