'A Guy Like Him Should Shut His Face'

'I know what you're thinking, punk. Why does Eastwood
have all the talent and I have none?'

Clint Eastwood lays a smackdown on mini-racist Spike Lee.

CLINT Eastwood has fired back at Spike Lee, who criticized the multiple Oscar winner for not employing any black actors in his two World War II movies, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima."

"A guy like him should shut his face," Eastwood told Britain's The Guardian. "Has he ever studied history?"

Last month - while Lee was at the Cannes Film Festival trying to drum up interest in "Miracle at St. Anna," his movie about four black GIs trapped behind enemy lines in 1944 - Lee whined, "His version: The Negro soldier did not exist . . . It's not like he could say he didn't know. It was a conscious decision not to have any black people."

Eastwood said he was well aware there was a small detachment of black soldiers on Iwo Jima, "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."

Hey, why have accuracy when you can live in a fantasy world like Lee?

The bad blood goes back to 1987, when Eastwood was directing "Bird" about jazz legend Charlie Parker. "[Lee] was complaining . . . 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."

Eastwood, who won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for both "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby," said Lee shouldn't expect to see any black faces in "The Changeling," either, since his upcoming film is set in Los Angeles in the '30s before the black influx to that city.

"What are you going to do . . . make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game," Eastwood growled.

Ouch.

Memo to Spike Lee: STFU

I know what you're thinking, punk.
Why does Eastwood have talent and I don't?

The little racist obviously is trying to promote one of his unwatchable movies, so he decides to take on a Hollywood icon.

Not a good career move. He needs to just dummy up and go back to making an idiot of himself at Knicks games.

Spike Lee launched a bitter attack on Clint Eastwood yesterday, condemning his failure to include a single African-American soldier in his films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.

The Oscar-nominated African-American director, one of the most influential figures in contemporary cinema, said that black soldiers were conspicuous by their absence from Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Hundreds took part in the battle for the Japanese island in 1945.

Lee said: “There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one [in the films]. That was his version: the negro soldier did not exist. I have a different version.”

He was speaking at a press conference in Cannes, where he gave the world premiere of an eight-minute trailer for his latest feature film, a war drama with which he hopes to set the record straight.

Clearly, this twerp is jealous of someone who's held in such high esteem, a man with talent he'll never recognize both in front of and behind the camera.