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...your life became a film, who would play you? What type of film would it be? DRG: Maybe how the Jewish son of a scrap-iron dealer becomes lead-farmer in America and then goes on to end up in the movie industry association. I don’t know who would play me, but George Clooney wouldn’t be bad, if we could get him to do that...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Cornfields to the Field of Dreams | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...What’s your favorite PG-13 moment in a G-film? DRG: There aren’t any. All G-rated films are G-rated. There aren’t any PG-13 moments in a G-rated film...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Cornfields to the Field of Dreams | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...finds himself defending the historical accuracy of his own World War II movie, Miracle at St. Anna, and this time he is up against real-life fighters who may be even tougher than Dirty Harry. Surviving members of Italy's underground anti-Nazi resistance movement are angry over the film, a fictionalized account of the travails of the 92nd Infantry Division - the black GIs known as Buffalo Soldiers - as they helped liberate Italy. The film includes a portrayal of the Nazis' infamous 1944 slaughter of some 560 Italian civilians in the Tuscan town of Sant'Anna di Stazzema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee vs. the Italian Resistance | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...director refused. "This is very delicate," he says. "When a famous director makes a major movie about a chapter in history, people will believe that his version is the truth." Cipollini led a group distributing flyers of protest at Wednesday's screening in Viareggio, near the setting of the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee vs. the Italian Resistance | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...said he wanted to make this film, based on a novel by James McBride, to give long-overdue attention to the role of African-American soldiers in World War II. While at work on it, Lee took a swipe at Eastwood over the absence of black soldiers in his historical epics Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. The Californian director fired back: "A guy like that should shut his face," to which Lee replied, "The man is not my father, and we're not on a plantation either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee vs. the Italian Resistance | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

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