Clint Eastwood: Spike Lee Should "Shut His Face"

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Eastwood says Spike Lee should 'shut his face'
Published 6/6/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
... Let the weekend begin. Here's Justin Timberlake teeing off at the Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge at Torrey Pines yesterday in San Diego. ... Today: Sarah Jessica Parker is on The View . ... Jack Black hypes his panda movie on Regis and Kelly . ... Elsewhere: Clint Eastwood says Spike Lee should " shut his face " about putting black actors into a movie about raising the flag at Iwo Jima. ... Bob Dylan says Barack Obama is " ...

SPIKE LEE VS. CLINT EASTWOOD
Published 6/7/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (DCMovieGirl) at D.C.GIRL@THEMOVIES
I was just forwarded a link to this. Lee is critical of Eastwood's (all of Hollywood, really) reluctance show the contributions 10% of the military forces made in World War II. And Eastwood's response?? "Shut your face." My respect just went from high down to none. ...And folks consider call Spike Lee the angry one. ...

ROUDN THREE: SPIKE SAYS, "The Man Is Not My Father!"
Published 6/7/2008 at OH NO!!
... "Not everything was John Wayne, baby..." "I never said he should show one of the other guys holding up the flag as black. I said that African-Americans played a significant part in Iwo Jima," he said. "For him to insinuate that I'm rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black ... no one said that. It's just that there's not one black in either film. And because I know my history, that's why I made that observation." source I don't know. I respect Eastwood, but I think Lee sort of has a point. ...

Spike Lee to Clint Eastwood: You're Not My Father! [Feuds]
Published 6/7/2008 by ian spiegelman at Gawker
... "I never said he should show one of the other guys holding up the flag as black. I said that African-Americans played a significant part in Iwo Jima," he said. "For him to insinuate that I'm rewriting history and have one of the four guys with the flag be black ... no one said that. It's just that there's not one black in either film. And because I know my history, that's why I made that observation." [HuffPo via ...

Reel News
Published 6/9/2008 at movies filter
...   --Spike Lee vs. Clint Eastwood: "We're not on a plantation."   --Jessica Alba finds birth an Honor.   --"Brokeback Mountain" is becoming a ...

Spike vs Clint
Published 6/9/2008 at Yahoo! Buzz Log
... In the dustup's aftermath, lookups on Clint jumped 89%, while Spike surged 178%. A slew of articles including one from the Huffington Post drew clicks, and the story's not over yet. The ...

The Latest in Theaters: Shia, Spike and Queen Raquela
Published 9/26/2008 by Kirby (noreply@blogger.com) at Movie Dearest
... : Spike Lee takes on World War II (and Clint Eastwood) with this historical look at a battalion of African American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. The cast includes Derek Luke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Turturro, Kerry Washington and John Leguizamo. ...

Weekend Movie Forecast: Choke, Miracle at St. Anna, New York Film Festival
Published 9/26/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
... You may recall Spike Lee's very public spat with Clint Eastwood about his failure to include a single black soldier in Flags of Our Fathers. Now Lee's Miracle at St. Anna is here to rectify the problem, which Lee says is typical of Hollywood's treatment of World War II. ...