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...Amiri Baraka...
...insiders call it, won't be released until the Christmas season. But already Lee has fought off rival attempts to make the film, wrangled with the poet Amiri Baraka (once known as LeRoi Jones) and other black nationalists about how their hero should be portrayed on the screen, knocked heads with Warner Bros. over how much money and playing time are needed to tell Malcolm's story, and lost financial control of the project. "I knew this was going to be the toughest thing I ever did," he says, sitting wearily in his editing room. "The film is huge...
Before shooting began in New York City last September, Baraka publicly warned Lee "not to mess up Malcolm's life" and organized a protest rally. After Lee lashed back at Baraka, a truce was declared. But disagreements with Warner Bros. haven't been resolved as easily. The studio refused to kick in additional funds when Lee went $4 million over his $28 million budget, prompting the bond company that insured the completion of the film to assume financial control of the movie. That means Lee must get approval from the bond company for each dollar he spends. "They have financial...
...names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...
...challenge authority. To change the world. To announce itself: Power to the imagination! Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre declared the upheaval "the extension of the limits of the possible." At Columbia University, Mark Rudd, a scion of Corporate America, borrrowed an epigram from the street poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka): "Up against the wall, motherf*****, this is a stickup...