Clint Eastwood Tells Spike Lee to 'Shut His Face'

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Eastwood still pissed at Spike Lee
Published 6/6/2008 at OH NO!!
... it. Instead he was making something else." Eastwood's next project, The Human Factor, will be about Nelson Mandela's attempts to foster national unity in post-apartheid South Africa. Asked if he would remain historically accurate with depictions of the former president, he said: "I'm not going to make Nelson Mandela a white guy." In fact Morgan Freeman stars as Mandela in the Human Factor, of which Matt Damon also just joined. Source

EASTWOOD TELLS SPIKE LEE TO EAT A DICK
Published 6/6/2008 at FilmDrunk.com
... before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx. "What are you going to do, you gonna tell a fuckin' story about that?" he growls. "Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game. I'm playing it the way I read it historically, and that's the way it is. When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like Bird, I use 90% black people." ..."A guy like him should shut his face." [Guardian via RopeofSilicon] I'm taking Eastwood's side on this one.  I ...

Eastwood defends historical accuracy
Published 6/6/2008 at Filmstalker
... through Rope of Silicon goes on with Eastwood speaking of Spike Lee and his comments and saying: "A guy like him should shut his face." Okay, let's not make a big deal of that, and I hope Spike Lee doesn't either, it's probably one of those made in anger comments. Let's concentrate on the real issue. Eastwood goes on to defend what he's done by talking about his other films, and actually he makes a lot of sense. He starts off talking about his latest film The Changeling: "What are you going to do, you going to tell a [swear word removed - Richard] story about that?...Make it ...

Lee, Eastwood Go at It Over Black Actors
Published 6/6/2008 by andrew at Mollygood
Aging, stubborn director fight! In the black corner, we have the Afrocentric Spike Lee, upset because Clint Eastwood’s last two WWII films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, had a dearth of black actors. In the white corner, Eastwood, who says Lee is, and always has been, an insatiable crybaby. Here are the punches: Lee: “There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one [in the films].” ...

Spike Lee Vs. Clint Eastwood
Published 6/6/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
... It appears that Spike Lee has been talking smack about Clint Eastwood. Not a man to take guff from anyone, Clint has responded with instructions for Lee to shut his face! We get the following news piece thanks to our good friends over at ropeofsilicone: ...