Eastwoods' 2 movies will tell 2 sides of Iwo Jima

Eastwoods' 2 movies willtell 2 sides of Iwo Jima
NEW YORK -- In making a movie about U.S. Marines in the battle of Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood became concerned that he was telling only half of the story.
So he made another movie.
The two films -- "Flags," telling the story of six men who raised an American flag on Mount Suribachi, and the tentatively named "Lambs Before the Wind" on the Japanese side of the battle -- are scheduled for simultaneous release next fall.
Eastwood had difficulty articulating to Time magazine why he took on the ambitious projects.
"I don't know -- sometimes you just get a feeling about something. You have a premonition that you can get something decent out of it," he told the magazine in an interview in this week's issue. "You just have to trust your gut."
Nearly 7,000 American troops and more than 20,000 Japanese died in the battle from February to March 1945.
Mount Suribachi, a 550-foot dead volcano at the tiny, teardrop-shaped island's southern tip, was where five Marines and a Navy corpsman raised a U.S. flag Feb. 23, 1945. The flag-raising -- the second one that day on the mountain -- was captured in the famous photograph by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
Eastwood, 75, has won two best-director Oscars, for "Million Dollar Baby" and "Unforgiven."
Fats Domino goes hometo view the destruction
NEW ORLEANS -- Visiting his home for the first time since he was rescued from rising floodwaters in a boat, Fats Domino found his piano overturned among mud and debris and his house in ruins.
Despite the destruction, the 77-year-old legendary musician found a few bright spots during last week's tour, arranged by WWL-TV: a favorite shirt that survived unblemished and a bust that made it through the storm unbroken.
Those were the exceptions. His electric keyboard sat against a wall covered in dried mud, mildew and mold, and his white grand piano was overturned, broken and stained with the filth that flowed into the Lower Ninth Ward along with the floodwaters.
The water reached well over 8 feet, brushing the bottoms of chandeliers inside the home, WWL-TV reported.
Domino's fate was not publicly known for several days after the Hurricane Katrina-spawned floods hit the low-lying neighborhood. He was rescued in a boat along with other family members from an upper-floor balcony.
The side of the balcony was spray-painted with a premature farewell when it was feared Domino had not survived. "R.I.P. Fats. You will be missed."
Domino's house was a mansion of pink, yellow and lavender decorated with such touches as his "Cadillac couch," resembling the rear of a 1950s car. The room was left in shambles.
Madonna the strict one:She's the disciplinarian
NEW YORK -- Madonna says she's the disciplinarian with 9-year-old Lourdes and 5-year-old Rocco.
The former material girl told Newsweek that she doesn't let her children watch TV or look at magazines. She says milk and ice cream are also off-limits.
"When Daddy gets home, they get chocolate," Madonna said. "I'm the disciplinarian."
She's also strict about laundry duties: If Lourdes leaves dirty clothes on the floor, "we take all of her clothes and put them in a bag, and she has to earn all of her clothes back by being tidy," Madonna said. "She wears the same outfit every day to school until she learns her lesson."
Today's birthdays
Actress Marsha Hunt is 88. Actor Tom Poston is 84. Actress Beverly Garland is 79. Actress Julie Adams is 79. Daredevil Evel Knievel is 67. Country singer Earl Thomas Conley is 64. Singer Gary Puckett is 63. Actor Michael McKean is 58. Actress Margot Kidder is 57. Actor George Wendt is 57. Country singer Alan Jackson is 47. Animator Mike Judge is 43. Actor-comedian Norm Macdonald is 42. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is 37. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick ('N Sync) is 34. Rapper Eminem is 33. Actress Sharon Leal is 33. Singer Wyclef Jean is 33. Rock musician Sergio Andrade is 28.