Though Clint Eastwood landed a Best Picture Oscar for Unforgiven, the actor/director, who for years was credited with keeping the Western genre alive, didn't start directing Westerns. No, his first film was the Fatal Attraction precursor Play Misty for Me. The 1971 suspense film has Eastwood playing a hyper-cool radio DJ, a playboy who likes to shag lots of lady friends. One of his shags, played with psycho spunk by Jessica Walter, soon gets the wrong idea, thinking they're meant to be together forever. She constantly calls up during his show, whispering, "Play Misty for me," into the phone.

There is some suspense here, but the film is great just for those '70s touches: the heavy use of zoom, the wacked fashions of the day and Walter, the standout, delivering a performance that somehow makes her far more sympathetic than the of-dubious-moral-character Eastwood.

And now we know where Rufus Wainwright got his fashion sense. The dramatic bone structure, the '70s threads, the shaggy hair and sideburns--man, Eastwood and Wainwright are dead ringers in this movie. No kidding--see for yourself.

Speaking of '70s scares, the special edition of Jaws is out this week, with making-of interviews included with the original film, which scared the pants off me as a kid. That fish is always worth an additional screening.

--Matthew Hays