Clint Eastwood wants Spike Lee to shut up after Spike complained to a Cannes Film Festival panel of the lack of black soldiers in Eastwood’s recent World War II movies.

Eastwood rejected the ludicrous complaints and basically said that Lee needs to stop whining to the panel like a spoiled brat. He explained it so Spike can hopefully get it through his head:

“Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima,” both from 2006, explaining that the black troops that did take part in the 1945 battle were assigned to munitions units and had no part in the flag-raising moment that is the focus of “Flags.”

Then he laid the smack down:

“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.” Referring to Lee, he added: “A guy like him should shut his face.”

Eastwood made it clear that it will not compromise the facts in his movies historically. So stop whining and go make a movie Spikey.

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What you see is a Gameboy that survived a barracks bombing during the Gulf War. Proof that short of a shotgun blast to the head screen, gameboys will live to play another day. It currently resides at the Nintendo World Store in NYC.

That is quality. A DS would not have survived such carnage. Still, I can’t help but wonder if the gamepack is permanently fused to the gameboy forever.

[Geekologie]