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...precocious child, young John learned to read during the long weekends he spent at the library with his mother as she studied for a medical- technology degree. Quickly graduating from picture books to adult books, he whipped through The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi while still in elementary school...
...deciding vote approving Beys' deal was called in yesterday afternoon, according to Vice Chair Malcolm A. Heinicke...
Certainly it was a financial event. Lee, who had never spent more than $14 million on a film, demanded $40 million in order to portray four distinct periods in Malcolm's life and to go on location for such crucial sequences as his pilgrimage to Mecca. When the studio refused, Lee trimmed his budget to $33 million. Sorry, said the studio, but $20 million was as high as it was willing to go. Lee made up some of the difference by selling the foreign rights for $8.5 million, then went ahead with shooting based on his $33 million projection...
Still, Lee is so determined not to make compromises that he has taken the unusual step of investing a sizable amount of his reported $3 million salary in the project. Malcolm X once famously said blacks would achieve their rights "by any means necessary." Lee clearly feels the same way about his movie...
SHOW BUSINESS Spike Lee battles to do the right thing by Malcolm...