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Subject: Lee Van Cleef

Hi Steve,

Last Sunday I viewed the Sergio Leone film trilogy starring Clint Eastwood
and Lee Van Cleef on TNT.  Although I have seen these movies several times, I
continue to be struck by the pipe that Lee Van Cleef smoked in the second
movie "For a Few Dollars More."  It is  large, 3/4 bent, tan in color, and
appears to be a sandblast.  It seems to have an amber (or maybe bone) stem.
 What a pipe!

Have any readers seen a pipe like the one in the movie?  I'd like any
information (even anecdotal) regarding it.  Perhaps one of the large pipe
manufacturers put out a "Lee Van Cleef" model after the movie came out in
1966.  Maybe one of the custom pipe makers such as Alberto Bonfiglioli could
duplicate the pipe.

I wish I had taped the movies (they were shown in the letter-box format).  To
me, just the image of Van Cleef slowly and deliberately lighting that pipe,
makes the movie memorable.  He looks legit' smoking a pipe.  When I recently
saw the movie "Apollo XIII" I thought that a couple of the actors (smoking
brand new pipes!) looked a little phony.  Did anyone else think so?

James Lawson     aka   BriarPipes

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******"The aluminum linoleum has a minimum of lanolin with a modicum of
molybdenum."     Say this 3 times rapidly, with a pipe clenched in teeth.
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[Well, James, Mr. Van Cleef might not be the perfect role model for
pipe smokers, since he played the "heavy" in the spaghetti
Westerns. But he did indeed look like he knew what he was doing with
hs pipe... BTW, ever see "Gettysburg"? -S.]


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