Spike Lee Shows His True Colors in Feud with Clint Eastwood
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.
Declare Your LOVE Day was June 8
In the picture on the right, Cartier CEO Frederic de Narp (is the 3rd from left) along with Sarah Jessica Parker, and Spike Lee, announce the first official “Declare Your LOVE Day” and Cartier’s nation-wide charity initiative. The fourth man in the one photo is Bruce Aust, from NASDAQ. Stars from the worlds of fashion, art, music and movies were at the Cartier Mansion on New York’s Fifth Avenue to launch a new charity initiative being mounted by the prestigious jewelry firm. June 8 was officially “Declare Your LOVE Day” in New York in honor of the new charity campaign featuring Cartier’s new LOVE collection and new LOVE charity bracelet. Every sale of the bracelet will benefit a good cause. Eight A-List Hollywood celebs are working with Cartier on this initiative. Rosario Dawson, Salma Hayek, Scarlett Johansson, Spike Lee, Edward Norton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael Stipe, and Liv Tyler have each selected a charity close to their hearts and bracelet color to represent their cause. $100 of each bracelet goes to the charity, and on June 8th, LOVE Day, 10% of the entire LOVE Collection went to the charities. Bracelet List: Rosario Dawson – Youth AIDS – Red Bracelet Sarah Jessica Parker, Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johansson, Janet Jackson, Spike Lee, Salma Hayek, and Ashley Judd, along with a very amorous Liv Tyler and Edward Norton, all took the time to pose for the cameras. 3 more pictures, and a video, in the gallery after the jump… Technorati Tags: Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, Frederic de Narp, Lindsay Lohan, Liv Tyler, Michael Stipe, Rosario Dawson, Salma Hayek, Sarah Jessica Parker, Scarlett Johansson, Spike Lee, Gossip, Celebrity Gossip, Declare Your LOVE Day, Bruce Aust, NASDAQ, Cartier, Cartier Mansion, Fifth Avenue, LOVE |
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