Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: "Shut Your Face" - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 06-06-2008, 09:51 PM

Remember last month at Cannes when Spike Lee — promoting his African-American WWII movie Miracle at St. Anna — made some characteristically aggressive remarks about the dearth of black characters in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers? Well, the man who once played Dirty Harry has a few choice words for Lee.

"A guy like him should shut his face," Eastwood told the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper — apparently thinking that calling Lee a "dummy head" might sound childish. Despite his obvious anger, Eastwood gave a straightforward response to why there weren't more black roles in his film: "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." Eastwood also claimed that Lee had once griped about Eastwood directing Bird, the biopic about African-American jazzman Charlie Parker, a story Lee thought should be told by a black director.

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-en...pike/800041046

Ireneparalegal · 06-06-2008, 09:54 PM

Good ol' Clint!!!!! You go boy!

I am sick of Spike and his one-sided views.

Talk abt using the race card.

Mr. Television · 06-06-2008, 11:29 PM

I couldn't have said it better myself Clint...

catlover79 · 06-06-2008, 11:57 PM

I can just picture Clint saying that to Spike. That, and "go ahead, punk, make my day."

70s show watcher · 06-07-2008, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Good ol' Clint!!!!! You go boy!

I am sick of Spike and his one-sided views.

Talk abt using the race card.

right on ive never liked spike lee

comedyfreak · 06-07-2008, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by 70s show watcher

right on ive never liked spike lee

Me either.

TJL · 06-07-2008, 09:25 AM

Don't mess with Dirty Harry, Spike.

*ClassicPinUp* · 06-07-2008, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

I can just picture Clint saying that to Spike. That, and "go ahead, punk, make my day."

Good for Clint! He tells it like it is! I admire that

Janice · 06-07-2008, 01:33 PM

I think Spike Lee needs an adjustment to his tinfoil hat. It's cutting off the circulation to his brain.

catlover79 · 06-07-2008, 08:47 PM

No one can deliver a putdown like Clint Eastwood. He's got to be almost 80 by now and I can't think of ANYONE who would challenge him.

Mr. Television · 06-07-2008, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by catlover79

No one can deliver a putdown like Clint Eastwood. He's got to be almost 80 by now and I can't think of ANYONE who would challenge him.

He's in better shape than I am right now.

catlover79 · 06-07-2008, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Clint Eastwood Fan

He's in better shape than I am right now.

Sterling Holobyte · 06-07-2008, 10:16 PM

I wish more powerful people in Hollywood would tell Spike Lee that.

jimpickens · 06-17-2008, 06:43 PM

Spike Lee is nothing more than a glorified race baiter.

06-06-2008, 09:51 PM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: "Shut Your Face" Remember last month at Cannes when Spike Lee — promoting his African-American WWII movie Miracle at St. Anna — made some characteristically aggressive remarks about the dearth of black characters in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers? Well, the man who once played Dirty Harry has a few choice words for Lee. "A guy like him should shut his face," Eastwood told the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper — apparently thinking that calling Lee a "dummy head" might sound childish. Despite his obvious anger, Eastwood gave a straightforward response to why there weren't more black roles in his film: "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." Eastwood also claimed that Lee had once griped about Eastwood directing Bird, the biopic about African-American jazzman Charlie Parker, a story Lee thought should be told by a black director. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-en...pike/800041046
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06-06-2008, 11:29 PM	#3
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06-06-2008, 11:57 PM	#4
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06-07-2008, 09:25 AM	#7
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06-07-2008, 01:33 PM	#9
Janice Retired Admin - Hollywood Swingin' Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 03, 2001 Location: Beantown Posts: 36,388	I think Spike Lee needs an adjustment to his tinfoil hat. It's cutting off the circulation to his brain.

06-07-2008, 08:47 PM	#10
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,382	No one can deliver a putdown like Clint Eastwood. He's got to be almost 80 by now and I can't think of ANYONE who would challenge him.

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06-17-2008, 06:43 PM	#14
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