Spike talks about his new movie, Red Hook Summer and the change in gentrification in Brooklyn.
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How dare u post this before me ;)
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Spike! Can we reproduce this in other cities…. I’m thinking Chicago should be next. Can you come thru? At least for the inauguration?
-noonething :)
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Title: Off the Wall
Artist: Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
J.Period & Spike Lee Present… Man or the Music (40 Acres Edition) CD Mix
Happy Birthday Mike!!!
Watching spike lee’s first part of his new doc on new orleans, I lost a little bit more of that thing we call hope, and gain more fear, and a little more distrust.
This is true of me as i grow older, i feel i must be more watchful of the powers that be and i have a urge to fight more, or find ways to put into action what my mind tells me is forgotten.
It’s true that ignorance is bliss, because i felt more hopeful the more i believed and the less i knew. It’s not something i know i can get back, or trick myself into regaining, cause like neo i will always feel like something is wrong.
I know you enjoyed the book, but did the Clint Eastwood schism play a part in your decision?
Well, that happened after the film was already made. I was just incredulous that he could do two films about Iwo Jima and not have a Black Marine say a line. I was able to interview some guys, and one of the guys, who just recently died, was Thomas McFadden, who was there. He said there were plenty of Black folks there on those islands. Thomas McFadden told me this story that there were two pictures of the planting of the flag at Iwo Jima. He was at the first, and there was a whole bunch of Black people watching them take the picture. And, because it was lava, the stick wouldn’t hold. He had a supply dump, and they said look to see if you could find something, so he found a pipe from his supply dump, stuck the pipe in the lava, and that’s what they stuck the flag in. So, at the time the picture was taken, there were a lot of Black folks watching the picture being taken!
Spike Lee being asked about Miracle at St. Anna in a Wax Poetic interview
by Mark Randolph
