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Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated film director, producer, writer, and actor, whose movies often examine controversial social and political issues. Brooklyn is the backdrop for many of his films, which he labels as żA Spike Lee Joint.ż Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Moż Better Blues, Jungle Fever are some of his better-known films.
Shelton Jackson Lee, better known as Spike Lee, is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated film director, producer, writer, and actor, whose movies often examine controversial social and political issues. Brooklyn is the backdrop for many of his films, which he labels as żA Spike Lee Joint.ż Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Moż Better Blues, Jungle Fever are some of his better-known films.
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'City of Thieves' by David Benioff
City of Thieves
A Novel
David Benioff
Viking: 260 pp., $24.95
DAVID BENIOFF'S second novel (after "The 25th Hour," which Spike Lee directed for the screen) features a snappy plot, a buoyant friendship, a quirky courtship, an assortment of menacing bad...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Armed Forces, Richard Price, Defense, Theft
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'The James Brown Reader,' edited by Nelson George and Alan Leeds
The James Brown Reader
50 Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul
Edited by Nelson George and Alan Leeds
Plume: 318 pp., $17 paper
WHAT would the late James Brown make of Barack Obama? Most definitely, Brown would say he was down with the message...Tags: Music Industry, Johnny Carson, Bill Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, Popular Music
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Has Barack Obama put the Jeremiah Wright controversy behind him?
Barack Obama and friends would like to believe that a little steam is beginning to come out of the furor surrounding the explosive views of the candidate's onetime pastor and spiritual advisor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
Appearing on NBC's "Today"...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Northwestern University, Jeremiah Wright, Malcolm X
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Star Jones Files for Divorce
Associated PressThree years after tying the knot in a spectacular, over-the-top affair that caused some backlash, Star Jones has decided to end her marriage to banker Al Reynolds. The 46-year-old TV personality quietly filed divorce papers March 26 in New York Supreme...Tags: Marriage, Hillary Clinton, Family
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Court postpones Oprah Winfrey school abuse trial
A court on Monday postponed the trial of a former dormitory matron accused of abusing pupils at a school set up by Oprah Winfrey for disadvantaged girls.
Magistrate Thelma Simpson agreed to a request made by Tiny Virginia Makopo's lawyer, who said he...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Tina Turner, Prosecution, Trials, Court Administration
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Robert Redford, ESPN Team on Jackie Robinson Biopic
Zap2It.comESPN Films will team up with Robert Redford's production company on an upcoming biopic about baseball pioneers Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. The Robinson-Rickey project, which has been in development for some time with a variety of directors, will...Tags: Robert Redford, ESPN, Major League Baseball, Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson
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Excerpts from Charlton Heston's letters
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCHARLTON HESTON, who died Saturday at age 84, was an avid newspaper reader, eager to share his opinions. In addition to writing dozens of letters to the paper over four decades, the "Ben-Hur" star often would telephone Los Angeles Times editors with his...Tags: Elia Kazan, Forestry and Timber, Charlton Heston, Jonathan Pryce, Democracy
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Hollywood's James Ellroy enigma
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterApril 6, 2008 One day in the mid-'90s, the lanky and sometimes manic James Ellroy walked into the brownstone New York office of his publisher, Otto Penzler -- the two were going to a fight that night -- and broke the news: He had just sold the film...Tags: Elmore Leonard, Mass Media, Ethics, Scarlett Johansson, Cinema Industry
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Saving the Knicks will be a tough task
ON THE NBAThe Creature That Ate the NBA . . . At this point in New York Knicks history, all that remains is for Stephen King to write the book in which Madison Square Garden comes to life, swallows the fans (starting with Spike Lee), marches 20 blocks to 645 Fifth...Tags: Mass Media, Madison Square Garden, Government, Isiah Thomas, National Government
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News and Notes from Press Tour
Zap2It.comEvery July, the producers and stars of all the new fall TV series, and the network executives who greenlit them, descend on a hotel in Southern California to tell a roomful of ornery critics that this is gonna be their year. Sometimes, they're even right....Tags: Gene Simmons, Malibu, Prosecution, Culture, Celebrity
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