USA: GOLF - CLINT EASTWOOD, DENNIS HOPPER, SAMUEL JACKSON AND OTHER CELEBRITIES TAKE PART IN THE AFI GOLF CLASSIC TOURNAMENT

Record ID: 392285

  • Title: USA: GOLF - CLINT EASTWOOD, DENNIS HOPPER, SAMUEL JACKSON AND OTHER CELEBRITIES TAKE PART IN THE AFI GOLF CLASSIC TOURNAMENT
  • Date: 29th October 2001
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 29, 2001) (REUTERS) PAN FROM BANNER ADVERTISING THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE (AFI) GOLF TOURNAMENT TO ARRIVALS AT THE RIVIERA GOLF CLUB SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPORTER SAYING, "You excited about your game today?" CLINT EASTWOOD, "Well, I'm never too excited, but I'm okay. I'm here." REPORTER SAYING, "What brought you out
  • Embargoed: 13th November 2001 12:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General,Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA15LM6IWBVVXYG9F8A8CCPVREJ
  • Story Text: Members of Hollywood's elite vied for a hole-in-one
    at the American Film Institute's Annual Golf Classic Monday at
    the exclusive Riviera Golf Club in Los Angeles.



    Some of Hollywood's top duffers including Clint
    Eastwood, Andy Garcia, Greg Kinnear, Dennis Hopper, James
    Woods and Joe Pesci were among those who teed off in support
    of film preservation. While most mumbled pieties about their
    support of the day's charity, Greg Kinnear appeared more
    realistic. "All these actors show up and they try to act real
    passive about it," said Kinnear, before mimicking his
    colleagues by saying; "'I'm just here to have a good time and
    support the AFI,' but they're wildly competitive, is what I've
    learned over the years. So you have to bring, as Shaquille
    O'Neal would say, your 'A' game."
    Most celebrities seemed to leave their "A" game at home
    in favor of a leisurely afternoon. "My strategy is to have
    fun," said Samuel L. Jackson. "That's all you come to these
    things to do, to have fun and enjoy the people you're playing
    with and maybe win, who knows."
    When asked if he was excited about his game, the ever
    laconic Eastwood didn't veer from his cool reputation, saying
    "I'm never too excited but I'm okay, I'm here."
    That seemed to sum up the day, as no hole-in-ones were
    had and few birdies were in sight, the game resembled golf.


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