Word: spikeness
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...both the Jeffreys (who are a mother-daughter pair in real life) bring emotional depth to their comic performances. The only actor who doesn't quite come through is Ganatra. She's clearly a good writer and a promising director. But she should take a few lessons from director/actor Spike Lee: when he appeared in "Malcolm X," he had the good sense not to cast himself as Malcolm X. Ganatra would have been more effective in a supporting role...
...SPIKE LEE'S BACK AND COURTING CONTROVERSY AGAIN WITH BAMBOOZLED, A BITING LOOK AT RACE IN AMERICAN MEDIA
...ascends in megavolts, moving beyond satire into irresistible entertainment. And suddenly a weird thought creases the moviegoer's skull: TV could use a comedy-variety show with a self-lacerating edge; and Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show--the defiantly offensive TV parody that is at the heart of Spike Lee's Bamboozled--might just be the one. This show could...
...white actors in blackface. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Bugs Bunny defaced themselves in minstrel cork. Egregious stereotyping can still be heard, most mornings, on Don Imus' and Howard Stern's radio shows--aural blackface. Somebody had to shout, "Enough," and, whaddaya know, it was Spike...
...hard because traders have been focusing on just one aspect of it: vaporized earnings as euros are converted to dollars. But there's a second shoe that might drop. Oil is sky high, and because oil is priced in dollars, the toll has risen way faster in Europe. The spike could trigger a dramatic slowdown that spills across the pond as U.S. earnings erode...