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Clint Eastwood may be 82 years old, but he dreams of making films for two more decades. In a wide-ranging conversation about the art of film directing, Eastwood expressed admiration for the 104-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira. “It would be great to be 105 and still making films,” Eastwood said. Chuckling, he called such a hope “the ultimate optimism.” Eastwood last directed 2011’s J. Edgar, a biopic of the FBI head J. Edgar Hoover. After acting in last year’s baseball drama Trouble With the Curve, he has several films in development. The Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven director joined fellow filmmaker Darren Aronofsky for a staged talk at the Tribeca Film Festival after a screening of Richard Schickel’s documentary Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story. Eastwood regaled the Tribeca Performing Arts Center crowd with the accrued, pragmatic wisdom from his late career as an acclaimed filmmaker.

Before they kick off their “50 and Counting” tour, the Rolling Stones are playing a warm-up date at a small Los Angeles club. The band will perform at the Echoplex before a sold-out crowd that will be minuscule compared to the thousands who are set to see them launch their tour May 3 at the Staples Center. Tickets were sold for $20 each - a fraction of what tickets to the tour will cost. Hundreds of fans lined up outside the El Rey Theatre for a chance at the tickets. They were dispensed through a confusing lottery system that led to much of the crowd departing even though show tickets were made available to lottery ticket holders. Rumors of the spontaneous show spread across social networks this week after the band teased the appearance on their Twitter accounts. The dance-pop band New Build, which was originally scheduled to play the Echoplex, was first to leak details about the show. “Our gig got shifted b/c the Rolling Stones are playing Echoplex,” the band posted on Twitter.