Dirty Harry star Clint Eastwood thinks Spike Lee should “shut his face.” Ouch. Burn! The two legendary film directors are squabbling over Spike’s claim that there are too few African-American actors in Clint’s award-winning films. The Mo’ Better Blues director made headlines when he publicly chided Clint on the slight during a Cannes Film Festival red carpet interview last month.

“That was his version. The Negro version did not exist,” said Lee. “He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those films…..Many veterans, African-Americans, who survived that war are upset at Clint Eastwood. In his vision of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist. Simple as that. I have a different version.”
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