To be clear, understand that Clint Eastwood's upcoming new movie, "Invictus" about South Africa, Nelson Mandela and a scrapping soccer team is a mea culpa from Mr. Eastwood to Spike Lee, purely and simply.
If you'll remember, Clint made 2 WWII movies and gave African-Americans virtually no coverage in all the hours of both critically-acclaimed hours of film.
Spike came down on him hard--fairly, but hard--for leaving out their contributions.
And now this movie.
Oh, yeah.
I don't think it will be discussed anywhere else and if it is, it will be denied but it seems rather blatant.
Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/movies/06invictus.html?th&emc=th
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2098097/Clint-Eastwood-and-Spike-Lee-row-over-black-soldiers.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/07/2008-06-07_spike_lee_jabs_back_at_clint_eastwood.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/
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