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Write an essay on why you really want to be in a certain house and submit it to Fred Jewett by 8 a.m. on the day the lottery forms are due. If it is really good, you might get into Spike Lee's film class...
School Daze? Blacks complained that it demeaned black coeds. Do the Right Thing? Whites fumed that it promoted interracial violence. Jungle Fever? The director himself groused that racism deprived it of an award at the Cannes Film Festival. Feisty black filmmaker Spike Lee is no stranger to controversy. Each of the five movies he has made since 1986 about the African-American experience has stirred up some kind of fuss. But none of Lee's previous flaps compares to the troubles that have stalked his latest, most ambitious film, Malcolm...
...calls, insisting, "I'm the guy, I'm the guy." Worth finally relented, and Jewison bowed out. Warner Bros. agreed to finance the Baldwin script, as rewritten and directed by Lee, starring Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington. "I think they felt it would be more of an event with Spike," Worth says...
Outside Harvard, Black nationalism is on the rise: Nation of Islam membership is up, Spike Lee is making a movie about Malcolm X and rappers are coming out with videos like Public Enemy's "By the Time I Get to Arizona...
...never hear a lecture by Professor Spike Lee. But at least you can have the next best thing: for four dollars, you too can see the films for his course...