Young Hollywood Comes Out For 'Flags'

A who's who of young Hollywood slogged its way down the jam-packed red carpet. But all eyes were diverted to the two relatively old timers: director Clint Eastwood, 76, and producer Steven Spielberg, 59, who were talking up their World War II epic, "Flags of Our Fathers."

"I made it because he asked me to," Eastwood told AP Television, referring to Spielberg, "because he is hard to turn down."

Spielberg was more verbose. "I had originally bought the book because I felt that that photograph, that Joe Rosenthal still photograph, which was one of the most iconic images in all of American history next to some of the Lincoln portraits — that photograph really launched a ...