And the war of words between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood goes for one more round.
 
After the 78-year-old Hollywood legend lobed a Dirty Harry-esque one-liner at the pint-sized director – telling him to “shut his face” over criticisms that no African-Americans appeared in Eastwood’s drama “Flags of Our Fathers” – Lee has offered up a response.
 
“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation,” Lee told ABCNEWS.com. “The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ – come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”
 
“Flags of our Fathers” tells the story of three men – one of whom was Native American – who appeared in the famous photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. The film cuts between their experiences during the battle, how they ended up in the photo, and how they were treated as heroes stateside.
 
In the ABCNEWS.com interview, Lee also extended his complaints…