We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Tim Downie"
saying something like:

Called Clint, iirc.

How is it that your finger hit the L & the I and missed the U? ;-)

Perhaps it's an urban legend, but I recall mention many years ago of a
Hong Kong cinema poster in the late 60s featuring '**** Eastwood'.