Word: spike
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...created the market for black-movie rage: Spike Lee. This acerbic auteur is probably best known as Michael Jordan's best pal Mars Blackmon, the hyperverbalizing Nike footwear flack on TV. But with scathing screeds like Do the Right Thing (1989) and the current Jungle Fever, Lee, 34, has carved a niche for fierce minority movies -- a niche that can be enlarged by other directors who are even younger, more choleric, closer to the action if not to the edge. Call them the Spikettes...
...movies and prickly attitude make Hollywood squirm, but the town recognizes his value. "Spike put this trend in vogue," says Mark Canton, executive vice president at Warner Bros. "His talent opened the door for others." Van Peebles testifies, "If it weren't for Spike, I wouldn't be here." Lee is happy to have the brotherhood's company: "There are some people out there who were just meant to make films. That's the sense...
...surprise of the year, however, has been the announcement that filmmaker Spike Lee will come to teach a course in the spring semester on film. "He wanted to have a visible appointment while he was building up the scholarly components of the department," Johnson says...
WEAR THE RIGHT THING. Spike Lee's next opus, a film-bio of Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, hasn't even been filmed yet, but these emblematic caps are getting hot reviews already...
Travel may have picked up since the guns stopped firing five weeks ago, but Saddam Hussein's war is still claiming victims. Chicago-based Midway Airlines, its strength sapped over the winter by the war-induced spike in fuel prices and slump in travel, flew into the shelter of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, joining recent arrivals Continental Airlines and Pan Am (with TWA circling overhead). Midway's jets continue to fly, thanks in part to a $40 million loan from Continental Bank, which will be first to be repaid if the airline fails in its attempt to reorganize...