Word: spikeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there was little conventional about Monday night's Democratic presidential debate. Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields announced to the crowd at Harlem's Apollo Theater that it was "the first-ever presidential debate in a predominantly African-American neighborhood." A mezzanine box of Bill Bradley supporters included filmmaker Spike Lee, Harvard philosopher Cornel West, rapper Usher and L.A. Lakers coach Phil Jackson. But while the setting and faces were untraditional, the results were familiar: The candidates appeared ideologically similar - and, as has been the case in recent encounters, emerging alpha male Al Gore seemed to bull...
...help boost enlistments, Defense Secretary Bill Cohen is asking celebrities to do military-recruiting ads. The Navy is airing Spike Lee-directed commercials, and James Brolin is narrating a video for the Marine Reserve...
...Green Mile and The Sixth Sense instead of the three real best pictures of the year--The Talented Mr. Ripley, Being John Malkovich and The End of the Affair (throw in Election or Toy Story 2 and I'd still be happy). To look edgy, they reluctantly toss in Spike Jonze for Best Director and omit Frank Darabont for The Green Mile even though the movie is nominated for Best Picture--but that just makes them look self-conscious and lame...
...white man in brown face. In Short Circuit, Fisher Stevens added the needed laughs by yukking it up as an Indian with an accent so heavy that even the Indians in the audience couldn't understand him. Over time, it only got worse. Imagine if Malcolm X in Spike Lee's epic was played by a white man--that's how I felt when Ben Kingsley was given the highly coveted role of Gandhi (even though I was four years old). Even more egregious was the dreadful manipulation of races in 1997's A Perfect Murder. The movie...
...says, "when it clicked how happy I was being on a set." Prince-Bythewood, who is half black, got help from Bill Cosby, the NAACP and Sundance's Robert Redford. Love and Basketball, a $15 million hoop-dreams drama with Omar Epps and Alfre Woodard, was produced by Spike Lee's company (her husband, Reggie Rock Bythewood, wrote Get on the Bus for Lee). Now, at 30, she plans a slave epic, but--here's a Hollywood novelty--from a black perspective. "If I'm not telling these stories," she asks, "who will...