Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH his new movie "School Daze," Spike Lee has struck at the most controversial issues facing the Black community and has managed to produce an accurate picture of Blacks on college campuses...
...Spike Lee, a Black director/screenwriter, made his first feature film for just $125,000. She's Gotta Have It is a classic Hollywood Cinderella story. Besides the critical kudos, Lee's film earned $8 million. That's 6400 percent profit...
Other strong finishes for the Crimson came in the 100 breaststroke, 100 butterfly and 400 individual medley. Spike Lutz and Joey Zumpano touched third and fourth in the breaststroke, while Co-Captain Bill Bird gained sixth in the 100 fly. Despite an illness, Jeff Peltier was good for fourth...
...SPIKE Lee made one the best movies of 1986, She's Gotta Have It, on a shoestring budget of $125,000 and built a following based on that movie's breezy, brilliant invention and irreverence. The movie allowed Lee to get a major studio, Columbia, to back him on his second feature to the tune of $7,000,000. But with School Daze, Lee may have disappointed a large segment of his newfound fans...
...have no doubt that Spike Lee is one of the most promising moviemakers of the last five years. School Daze is a mess, a complex failure which nevertheless demonstrates that the unusual promise of the director of She's Gotta Have It is still there...