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...organization on the campus because they're in uniform. What other group is walking around wearing the same colors and doing everything the same way? That's why they're powerful, even though they only make up, like, 10 percent of the student population," Spike Lee, director of School Daze, a movie partially about Black frats, told the Village Voice recently...
Once again, in unison, all three Democrats unveiled new antidrug commercials last week for New York. Jackson's is the most riveting. Directed by hip, pixieish Filmmaker Spike Lee (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze), the stark, grainy, black-and-white commercial creates a feeling of tension and intensity. A stern image of Jackson shifts from 140th Street in Harlem to a placid suburban street in Tarrytown to suggest that drugs are "killing our children" in both neighborhoods...
...become the scene of a netherworld nightmare, a place where reality seems as distorted as a fun-house mirror. Last Nov. 24 Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old black girl, got off a bus on Route 9 and disappeared. Four days later the onetime cheerleader was found in a daze, crawling into a garbage bag in the backyard of her family's former apartment complex. Her hair was crudely cropped, her body smeared with dog feces, her chest inscribed in charcoal with the letters KKK and the word NIGGER. At the hospital, a black policeman asked Brawley...
...brief point of information in connection with Melanie Williams review of Spike Lee's School Daze (March 9th): Ms. Williams' observation that Blacks have recently begun to change their eye color to "blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty" unwittingly plays into one of the subtlest games of misinformation that white racism has played on Blacks...
...that Lee lacks technical ability is imprecise and unfair. Remember, six million bucks is peanuts, especially for a musical. The musical numbers in Daze don't work because they don't seem to fit the film. Instead of using younger styles of music like rap or funk, Lee used mostly jazz, which creates an old-fashioned feel to numbers that should be boisterous. These show bad choice, and not lack of ability...