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Lee Blasts Eastwood of Ignoring Black WWII GIs

                   
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May 20, 2008
        
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Spike Lee launched a bitter attack on Clint Eastwood, 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... [read full story]                    

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Karin Badt: Miracle at St. Anna: A Preview of Spike Lee's Upcoming Film

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May 23, 2008
        

Spike Lee presented an eight minute clip of his upcoming movie Miracle at St. Anna yesterday, to a handful of Italian journalists in a huge near-empty theater. "Your editor Barry Brown told me a lot about this movie," I said, finding Spike comfortably slouched in his seat under his black baseball...

                   

Eastwood rejects Lee's criticism of his WW2 films

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May 23, 2008
        

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Veteran actor and director Clint Eastwood rejected criticism from fellow U.S. director Spike Lee that his films "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" failed to recognize the role of African-American soldiers. In an interview with Germany's Focus magazine,...

Spike Lee and Jordan...Back Together

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May 23, 2008
        

Spike Lee is is coming with another "joint". He is going to be shooting a full-length documentary on icon, Michael Jordan. The film, financed by the NBA and Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule film production company will cover Jordan's last two seasons in the game as a Washington Wizard. Jordan gained...

Bruce Lee criticized Eastwood

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Iwo Jima in Black and White

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May 23, 2008
        

veterans, African-Americans, who survived that war are upset at Clint Eastwood. I have a different version,” Lee said.As the Associated Press reports, Mr. Lee will be offering his own “vision” later this year, releasing a film on African-American soldiers who fought in Italy during World War II....

                   

(Spike)Lee: Eastwood Omitted Black Troops in WWII Films

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May 23, 2008
        

CANNES, France (AP) - Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II. Lee - whose next film is this fall's "Miracle at St. Anna," the story of an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy...

                   

Karin Badt: Miracle at St. Anna: A Preview of Spike Lee's Upcoming Film

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May 22, 2008
        

Spike Lee presented an eight minute clip of his upcoming movie Miracle at St. Anna yesterday, to a handful of Italian journalists in a huge near-empty theater. "Your editor Barry Brown told me a lot about this movie," I said, finding Spike comfortably slouched in his seat under his black baseball...

                   

Spike Lee courts controversy by criticizing Clint Eastwood and the Coen brothers

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May 22, 2008
        

Perhaps Spike Lee has decided that a good offense makes for a better defense if he is snubbed by the Academy Awards again this year. How else to explain his slam of a trio of Oscar-winning directors — Clint Eastwood and the Coen brothers - who could well be competing again this year. As per...

                   

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Beef Alert! Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood?

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May 22, 2008
        

Look who’s beefing now. Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood for the lack of African American soldiers in his two recent World War II films ( “Flags of our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima”) “He did two films about Iwo Jima back to back and there was not one black soldier in both of those [...]

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