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THIS summer, August brings cooler weather, but the race/leadership problem has not gone away. In a summer when Spike Lee urges audiences to "Do the Right Thing," no one is seriously asking what happens when Black leaders do the wrong thing...
Life, alas, is not a football game. It does not provide a goal line we can cross with cheers ringing in our ears, an end zone where we can spike the ball and do a victory dance. What it provides, in dizzying abundance, is one damned thing after another. This vividly expressed thought comes to us courtesy of Parenthood's Jason Robards, who plays Frank, the grandpaterfamilias of a clan he has considerable reason to wish he had not extended quite so extensively back when he was young and frisky...
...SPIKE Lee's Do the Right Thing is a disturbing movie...
...Right Thing is a financial success, Lee will be playing in another league. Future movies will bring bigger budgets, probably accompanied by pressure for more control from the big studios anxious to protect their investments. Independence may be harder to retain. "Then the fights will come," says the director. Spike Lee is ready...
...Spike Lee, whose films intentionally raise social and political questions, has made this summer's most controversial movie, Do the Right Thing, about race relations in a hot New York City neighborhood. His movies don't just aim to please; they expose stereotypes and vent his anger...