Clint Eastwood's rambling, off-color interview with an empty chair Thursday night in prime time at the Republican National Convention joins Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight's chair toss, Jennifer Beals' soaking wet chair dance in "Flashdance" and George Strait's 1985 chart topper "The Chair." If online chatter is any indication, the legendary actor's peculiar endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney almost certainly overshadowed the convention's main event - Romney's acceptance speech - in water cooler talk Friday morning. Smithsonian magazine blogger Colin Schultz unearthed a contemporary account of vice-presidential candidate Burton Wheeler using an empty chair as a prop to grill an absent President Calvin Coolidge. [...] CNN talk show host Piers Morgan confronted an empty chair when U.S. Rep. Todd Akin canceled an appearance on his show. Eastwood's speech seemed to startle and unsettle Romeny's top aides, several of whom made a point of distancing themselves from the decision to put him on-stage without a polished script. Finger-pointing quickly ensued, suggesting real displeasure and even confusion over the handling of Eastwood's performance, which was kept secret until the last minute and offered an off-key message on the night that Romney accepted the Republican nomination.
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