Word: spikeness
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...Interestingly, many of their biggest opportunities were provided by other filmmakers of color. Berry's first big break was getting a small but showy part in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever." Early in her career, I interviewed Berry and she told me for her part in the miniseries "Queen" producers initially refused to meet with her - she had to pay for a plane ride to Los Angeles and pick up her own hotel bill in order to get a screen test. For "The Flintstones" Berry had to fight to get filmmakers to cast her and thus integrate Bedrock...
...Writers Guild nomination). Since then, "Sweet Smell" has become a retro-classic. Its wonderfully ornate cynicism is cited in "Mad Max," "Diner," "Rain Man" and "Boogie Nights" and on "The Simpsons"; this week's A&E special "New York at the Movies" had Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee and Peter Bogdanovich reciting passages of dialogue from memory...
...December Wetlaufer asked her boss Walter Kiechel, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publishing, to spike her article. She worried that the "close" relationship that had blossomed between her and the corporate legend might lead some to challenge her objectivity. Kiechel hastily reassigned the piece to two other staff members, whose Q&A with Welch ran in the February issue of HBR, a monthly covering business-management issues...
Most great comics are to some extent manic-depressive, but Spike was an extreme case, swinging between certifiable despair and a spate of creativity that threatened to sweep him away. He once said he would sacrifice everything for mental peace. Had he done so we would have been the poorer...
...friendship with Spike was to walk on eggshells. He once sent me a furious letter because I had called him a genius. Van Gogh, he maintained, was a genius. He, Spike, was not! He was wrong. The best definition of genius was given me by a philosopher: "A genius is one who, however slightly, alters our perception of reality." The father of the Goons fits that bill alright. Modern comedy owes an enormous debt to that fierce, inventive mania...