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After months of controversy and more media coverage than any event this fall, with the possible exception of the presidential election, Malcolm X, Spike Lee's 3-hr. 21-min. epic about the martyred black leader, has finally arrived on the big screen. For Lee and for millions of African Americans, Malcolm X has always been more than just a movie. It is, in fact, a cause. In the 27 years since his assassination, Malcolm has become a revered icon in the black community. Young blacks in particular, idolize his philosophy of pride and defiance...
...surprise about Malcolm X is how ordinary it is. The film is a lavish, linear, way-too-long (3 hr. 21 min.) storybook of Malcolm's career, the movie equivalent of an authorized biography, a cautious primer for black pride. It is Lee's biggest film, and the least Spikey. At one point in producer Marvin Worth's 26-year hajj to get this movie made, and before he was persuaded that an African American should direct the movie, Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story) wanted to do it. If Jewison had, the product would be about the same. Only...
...carefully stage-managed that her earnest voice-over ("The President's greeting was warm, his desk clear") sounded like parody. ABC's Peter Jennings aired a prime-time special last week on Perot, but the rehash of familiar material was merely a warm-up to the lively 1-hr. 40-min. "town meeting" that followed...
They didn't make any money to speak of. But on the side, Smith invented a process for extracting oil from tar sand and sold it to Amoco for $1 million. American Electric Power, one of the more enlightened utilities, signed on to build a 125-ton-per-hr. Otisca coal-cleaning plant in Beverly, Ohio. AEP, which serves seven Midwestern states, and by itself produces 3% of the nation's electricity, budgeted $6 million for the project. "We went from a bare field to a fully operational plant within 20 months," recalls Smith proudly. The product of the venture...
...That afternoon he flew home president of a company with a net worth of more than $7 million. "That," he recalls, "was a nice trip to New York." With the money, they bought an old cement factory in Jamesville, N.Y., and converted it into a 15-ton-per-hr. production facility...