Spike Lee
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 10: Filmmaker Spike Lee speaks after receiving his 'Made In NY Award' at the 8th Annual 'Made In NY Awards' at Gracie Mansion on June 10, 2013 in New York City.
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Why the hell would I be worried about a Spike Lee or anybody else? They all can go straight to hell.
adds flavor to have that undercurrent there, I think most Knicks fans have moved on, maybe not Spike Lee, but most everyone else in New York. I think they now respect Reggie Miller and what he did.
You got to make it hard all the time.More quotes »
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Mike Tyson's Spike Lee-directed show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth," comes to LI's NYCB Theatre at Westbury Sunday
two hours, with only his life story to propel him.So how'd he do? Much better than you might think.At the start of the Spike Lee-directed show, Tyson came on stage to intro music from Jay-Z and, more surprisingly, Nat King Cole . The latter, in "Nature Boy," Read more »
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Public Enemy enters Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Usher set to honor Quincy Jones , who received the Rock Hall's Ahmet Ertegun Award with Lou Adler . Harry Belafonte and Spike Lee were to induct Public Enemy.An edited version of the Rock Hall ceremony will air on HBO on May 18.Public Enemy leader Chuck D Read more »
Around the web
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE
Hot town, summer in the city. As anyone who’s seen Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing will recall, all it takes is a little fire, and a city will turn into a frying pan. So it is in the London of 1976: “For ten days now the heat has passed 90ºF. There has be 25 m ago from Kirkus Book Reviews Read more »
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The Bed-Stuy Home From Spike Lee's 'Crooklyn' Just Sold For $1.7M
— The 1994 Spike Lee film "Crooklyn" is the tale of a 1970s Brooklyn family. Fast forward to 2013, and 7 Arlington Place is no longer the symbol of modesty it once was: the brownstone recently sold for $1.7 million, in what the house's realtor said could signal 6/17/13 from The Business Insider Read more »
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Sold Stuff: Bed-Stuy's Crooklyn House Sells for $400,000 Over Ask
broker Jerry Minsky put the brownstone at 7 Arlington Place on the market in April, he priced the famed houseit's where Spike Lee filmed Crooklynat $1.3 million because it needed significant work. He told DNAinfo he anticipated a tough sell. Well, he could 6/17/13 from Curbed NY Read more »
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“Crooklyn” crib deal closes for $1.7 million
deal for a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn home that was featured in Spike Lee’s movie “Crooklyn” has closed for $1.7 million, DNAinfo reported. The three-family townhouse, located at 7 Arlington Place between Macon and Halsey streets, was reportedly in contract 6/17/13 from The Real Deal: New York Read more »
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Chiwetel Ejiofor: 'In theatre the fear lurks all the time'
quick to laugh, but he also carries a watchful air, a real openness to the moment. Directors – from Woody Allen to Spike Lee to Stephen Poliakoff – see this in him too. From his breakthrough role in Stephen Frears's 2002 film Dirty Pretty Things in which Ejiofor from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
