Angelina Jolie paid her respects to Clint Eastwood at the Hollywood Film Festival’s Gala Ceremony in Beverly Hills last evening. The pair just worked on The Changeling together. Angelina said of Clint:

"There are some people in this business that are icons, and we often wonder if, when we meet them, they’ll live up to what we imagine them to be. And Clint Eastwood in person is even better. Clint is what every great director should be. He is a great leader. And I certainly would follow him anywhere."

All true.

Upon receiving the Director of the Year award from Angelina, Clint said nice things about Angelina:

"Working with someone like Angelina Jolie is a great privilege, because you get to look on that gorgeous beauty every day. And she’s a great talent."

Angelina is better than viagra. If Angelina wasn’t with Brad Pitt right now, she’d probably be stealing Clint from his wife. Angelina has a way of picking things up that aren’t hers when she makes movies.

Clint Eastwood commented on Angelina Jolie Saturday at the Changeling premiere in New York City. Clint said:

"I’ve always admired her talent. She’s somewhat hampered sometimes by having this gorgeous face, the most gorgeous face on the planet. She’s on covers and all that stuff."

Clint’s wife probably here’s that everyday, so she’s not worried. It’s not like Angelina would try to steal someone’s husband.

Clint Eastwood told People in an interview at The Changeling premiere:

"I was at a function, and a bunch of political types were there. And John McCain was there. He came up to say hello, I said, ’Look, don’t even ask it. I will not be your vice president. I have to be on the top of the ticket.’ "

Eastwood was mayor of Carmel, California from 1986 to 1988. He’d probably make a great President too.

Angelina Jolie has a new film called Changeling set to be released October 31. The film is directed by Clint Eastwood, and stars John Malkovich. The film is based on a true story. The is storyline is:

A mother’s prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn’t take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.

Scary.

Spike Lee has been whining that Clint Eastwood’s Iwo Jima movie Flags of Our Fathers, did not have African-Americans in the films, implying Eastwood was somehow racist. Lee said:

"That was his version. The negro version did not exist."

Eastwood pointed out the historical fact, that blacks were segregated during World War II, and did not play a role in raising the United States flag. Eastwood said:

"He [Lee] was complaining when I did Bird [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that’s why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else." As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, "but they didn’t raise the flag. The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go, ’This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate."

Lee shouldn’t be demanding African-Americans in Eastwood’s next picture, either. Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, 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."

Eastwood pauses, deliberately – once it would have provided him with the beat in which to spit out his cheroot before flinging back his poncho – and offers a last word of advice to the most influential black director in American movies. "A guy like him should shut his face."

Barack Obama is the democratic party’s nominee for President, which means Lee can no longer play the race card without exposing his own racist prejudice against whites.