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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With Bamboozled, Lee takes a look at one of film and television's rarest breeds-the black television executive. His satire is based on the current lack of diversity in Hollywood, where 75 percent of television writers are white. And in most cases, the minority writers at networks are all...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: About Face: An Interview with Spike Lee | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

What keeps Just Looking merely predictable rather than boring are its characters. First-time film director Jason Alexander (yes, George from "Seinfeld") clearly loves his actors and the characters they portray. Every character, from Lenny to the old Italian assistant at the grocery store, is vivid and sharply delineated and...

Author: By Rebecca Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alexander's Debut Can't Rise Above Mediocre | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

Ryan is the only story that is miraculous because we needed a Jewish kid from New York. We were in New York with a very low budget and we were looking at Jewish and Italian kids, anybody that had an ethnic look. But we couldn't find a kid that...

Author: By Rebecca Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alexander the Great: From 'Seinfeld' Star to Big-Time Director | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

Marshall Karp: Actually it was during the writer's strike of 1988, when we couldn't write for money. So I could write for love and passion. I hadn't really written a feature that I would show to anybody. I'd written a lot of television. The idea comes...

Author: By Rebecca Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alexander the Great: From 'Seinfeld' Star to Big-Time Director | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

JA: No, because I don't know anything about film directing. So I actually come at it exactly the same way I come at acting. I'm just doing it for a hundred people instead of one. The only thing I keep learning is where to put the camera. And...

Author: By Rebecca Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alexander the Great: From 'Seinfeld' Star to Big-Time Director | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

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