Breezy (1973)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.
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As we now react, perhaps, to a half-forgotten movie of 1973, Clint Eastwood’s “Breezy,” which chronicles the alliance of a young hippie (Kay Lenz) and a wrinkled divorcé (William Holden).
Alana is auditioning for a film that sounds suspiciously like “Breezy,” the 1973 Clint Eastwood-directed romance in which Holden falls for a hippie chick a fraction of his age, and the boozebag star takes her out for a drunken dinner at Tail o’ the Cock that descends into madness upon the arrival of Tom Waits as his old Hollywood barfly buddy.
Many of the characters in Licorice Pizza have real-life counterparts: The cantankerous Lucy Doolittle is a stand-in for Lucille Ball, with whom Goetzman acted in the film Yours, Mine and Ours ; Jack Holden is William Holden, and the film Alana auditions for is Clint Eastwood’s Breezy , about a romance between a middle-aged divorcé and a younger woman; the motorcycle stunt is based on a similar legend featuring a drunken Evel Knievel.
(The movie she auditions for, a hippie-chick romance called Rainbow , riffs on Clint Eastwood’s Breezy .)
Granted, Eastwood has leaned in that direction from time to time in films ranging from the the little-seen May-December romance "Breezy," which he directed but that starred William Holden, and his country-western melodrama "Honky Tonk Man."
Some thirty years ago, smack in the middle of his tough-guy peak as Dirty Harry Callahan, Eastwood chose as his second directorial effort the little-seen May-December romance Breezy (in which he did not appear, though he could plausibly remake it today with himself in the William Holden role).