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	Do the Right Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Do the Right Thing is a 1989 motion picture produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee and released by Universal Pictures.
		Do the Right Thing also marks the feature film debuts of both Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez.
		A Criterion Collection DVD of Do the Right Thing has been released: it is no. 97 in the Criterion series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing (1946 words)

	DO THE RIGHT THING - THE CRITERION COLLECTION DVD
		Cinematically, and outside the context of the (sadly) brief debate it inspired, Do the Right Thing is Spike Lee's masterpiece.
		Uncertainties about whether the "right thing" was done, and by whom, may linger, but only a more thorough examination of its final 20 minutes than was initially granted can absolve the film of its undeserved reputation and, perhaps, explain why the riots that were feared never materialized.
		The folks at The Criterion Collection have done the right thing and transported the bulk of their magnificent 1995 laserdisc edition of the film, along with a few enhancements, to DVD in a superb 2-disc set.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/dotherightthing.htm (1762 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Do the Right Thing
		Perez in Do the Right Thing Rosa Maria Perez (born September 6, 1964 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York) is an Oscar-nominated American actress, dancer, and choreographer based in New York City.
		A Bad Thing, written with capital letters for added emphasis (and with the words similarly emphasised when spoken) is something which has negative consequences for the subject under discussion.
		The Right Thing is that which is compellingly the correct or appropriate thing to use, do, say, etc. The term is often capitalized, always emphasized in speech as though capitalized.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Do-the-Right-Thing (4587 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Do the Right Thing - Criterion Collection
		Do the Right Thing, however, is such a powerful and meaningful film that it is possible to revisit it now, more than a decade later, and look at it with fresh eyes.
		Do the Right Thing is an intense visual film, with careful use of colors, lighting, and camera angles.
		Do the Right Thing is one of the finest films of the last quarter century and deserves a place in any selective film collection.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=1670 (1216 words)

	DVD review of Do The Right Thing: Special Edition - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Spike Lee’s "Do The Right Thing" is one of the most controversial films in cinematic history.
		"Do The Right Thing" is a landmark film not only for the message it delivers, but also for an incredibly talented cast and wonderful direction by Lee.
		"Do The Right Thing" may have not won the awards to show how great a film it is, but it is important and will never be forgotten.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/dotherightthingspecialedition/6326/707 (1853 words)

	The Right Thing
		I recently received an e-mail query from a reader that places me squarely in the position of knowing what the ethical thing is for her to do to resolve her issue, while also knowing that doing the right thing could land her in a heap of trouble.
		She's right in assuming that it would be difficult for her bosses not to register her concerns as sour grapes, but that in itself doesn't outweigh her duty as an employee to defend her employer's interests.
		The right thing for my reader's friend to do is to trust her own instincts and let the matter lie.
	jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com (12718 words)

	'Do the Right Thing'
		There actually is a kitchen in "Right Thing" -- the one at Sal's Famous Pizzeria on Stuyvesant Avenue, where paisan Danny Aiello and sons John Turturro and Richard Edson have fed the locals for years but still skimp on the cheese.
		With "Right Thing," the maker of "She's Gotta Have It" and "School Daze" has made a quantum leap into the ranks of America's most serious-minded moviemakers.
		You'd be doing the right thing to bring your posterior on down to catch it.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/dotherightthingrhowe_a0b222.htm (435 words)

	Do the Right Thing
		Do the Right Thing is a masterpiece -- certainly one of the most invigorating and moving experiences I've ever had at the movies.
		And Do the Right Thing -- Lee's purposefully ambiguous exploration of escalating racial tensions on one Bedford-Stuyvesant block on the hottest day of the summer -- picks up where School Daze left off: with the very same rousing words.
		Do the Right Thing, Lee's third feature, is by far his most complex and accomplished to date, a movie teeming with life, ablaze with sunny colors (mainly brilliant reds, oranges and yellows), pulsating with music, and charged with unresolved tensions and contradictions that gradually accumulate in the sweltering air.
	www.cinepad.com /reviews/doright.htm (1048 words)

	Amazon.ca: Do the Right Thing (Widescreen): DVD: Danny Aiello,Ossie Davis,Ruby Dee,Rick Aiello,Paul Benjamin,Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Do the Right Thing is a joyful, tumultuous masterpiece--maybe the best film ever made about race in America, revealing racial prejudices and stereotypes in all their guises and demonstrating how a deadly riot can erupt out of a series of small misunderstandings.
		DO THE RIGHT THING was taboo for how it portrayed peoples of different races, yet for film's time, the state of Harlem and its residents was portrayed with frank and genuine realness that simply can't be denied.
		The title Do The Right Thing encourages each viewer to ask him/herself exactly what the right thing is. The character of Mookie was not there to show that his actions were the "right thing" only how one young man reacted in a given situation.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XQMV (3223 words)

	Do the Right Thing
		Do the Right Thing was variously hailed as the most insightful view of race relations ever to hit U.S. screens or condemned as dangerous agitprop, but its timeliness—and ability to strike nerves—was never in question.
		Like all the characters in the film, they have differing interpretations of how to do the right thing, but the circumstances that arise from their inability to address these differences—which only culminate in the killing of Nunn and the riot—have made further dialogue impossible, for the time being.
		Do the Right Thing - CinePad - Take a look at the credits from this film, which is quite possibly the finest of the Spike Lee joints.
	course1.winona.edu /pjohnson/h140/thing.htm (1858 words)

	Movie Review - Do the Right Thing - Hollywood Bitchslap
		"Do the Right Thing" was made in 1989, the period directly before Spike Lee discovered that dialogue is much more effective when characters deliver it to EACH OTHER, instead of directly at the camera; as such, it plays like "Carnal Knowledge" juiced up with racism and other thought provoking subject matter.
		But...You know, of all the things that piss me off when I'm watching a movie, the one thing I truly detest is when a filmmaker hops on the ole soapbox and starts preaching.
		"Do the Right Thing" is a good film that falls just short of being great; it has most of the ingredients but falters in its final moments.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=1106&reviewer=123&printer=1 (582 words)

	Do the Right Thing
		Doing the right thing calls us to wisely choose the course of our lives, our profession, our spouse, our hobbies, our friends, and our leisure pursuits.
		The Golden Rule of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you and the injunction to love your neighbor as yourself, both point toward the need to develop a heartful wisdom in how we live.
		The hard and exacting discipline of always doing the thing we know to be right, despite the sometimes acute desire to take the easy way out, to shirk our duty, demands that we be awake and ready to heed our higher nature.
	www.innerfrontier.org /Practices/DoTheRightThing.htm (741 words)

	Sermon - Do The Right Thing!
		"Do the right thing!" is what an elderly African-American man tells the Spike Lee character as tension builds in the inner city, during the hottest day of summer.
		In the movie, the right thing is never clear to the characters - or the audience - as the drama moves to the seemingly-inevitable, destructive climax.
		If doing the right thing were always, or even usually, clear and straightforward, ethics would be a cinch.
	www.uucava.org /sermons/RightThing2.htm (2022 words)

	Do the Right Thing (1989)
		Do the Right Thing, his best film thus far, is a perfect example of his searching nature, and Criterion has done an illuminating job of presenting this complex masterpiece and its creator.
		Do the Right Thing grabs one's attention from the very beginning, with Rosie Perez's ferocious dancing over the opening credits.
		From the running commentary of the three guys on the corner (one of whom is the brilliant late comedian Robin Harris) to the arguments between Tina (Rosie Perez) and Mookie (Spike Lee), the script manages to perfectly capture the life of a city block and speak presciently about race relations in the late 20th century.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=284&PID=10088847&Tab=reviews&CID=18#tabs (981 words)

	Do The Right Thing
		The meaning of "right" is one of those wonderfully emotionally charged things that is biased by "belief," teaching, and experience.
		Right: tending to promote or aid the survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction.
		Right is not a difficult, nebulous thing that has no handle, it is understandable in light of the societies norms and expectations.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DoTheRightThing (952 words)

	The DVD Journal: Do the Right Thing: The Criterion Collection
		At first, Do the Right Thing seems essentially plotless — a fast-paced Slacker filmed at Dutch angles — with all these myriad characters wandering the neighborhood and sitting on stoops and crossing one another's paths and arguing and often as not being extremely funny in the process.
		Do the Right Thing is deeply ingrained in the currency of my film-geek friendships, with lines and nicknames quoted to this day; as you can imagine, to this writer's eyes, the Criterion two-disc edition is like holy writ.
		There's also a 60-minute documentary, "The Making of Do the Right Thing," that is, as Lee puts it in his video intro, "not one of those regular bullshit EPK things," God bless him.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/d/dotherightthing.shtml (1388 words)

	Do the Right Thing Charlotte-Mecklenburg
		Do The Right Thing, Inc. is a non-profit corporation dedicated to recognizing and rewarding youth excelling in a worthwhile endeavor.
		Four times a year, children from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area, on the basis of their exemplary behavior and attitude, are nominated by firefighters, police officers, teachers, and the public.
		Each quarter, ten nominees are chosen to receive a Do the Right Thing award.
	www.dotherightthing-char.org (388 words)

	Bush says US 'did the right thing in Iraq' - The Boston Globe
		But with the signs of Democratic presidential candidates staked into the ground across the city, the president swept in and captured the attention of the local media, which offered minute-by-minute coverage of his vigorous retort to the criticisms Democrats had hurled at his administration in the days leading up to Tuesday's primary.
		The president is scheduled to stay on the heels of his Democratic opponents next week, when he is expected to visit Missouri, which held its primary on the same day that voters went to the polls in South Carolina.
		Instead, the late senator Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist who staunchly opposed civil rights and was hugely popular in the state, led an exodus of whites from the Democratic Party in 1964, when passage of the Civil Rights Act prompted him to become a Republican.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/06/bush_says_us_did_the_right_thing_in_iraq (894 words)

	Do the Right Thing - Cancel Inauguration Parties - Blog Maverick
		It would be hard for other politicians to not follow your lead. You could ask them to do the right thing and give up something they can do without, so that there are dollars available for those who really need them.
		I feel obligated to do what I feel is the right thing, and I try to do it for that reason.
		However much I agree with you on that, and I do, it is utterly disgusting that you would use such an occurence as the deaths of more than 120,000 people to advance your call for more fiscal restraint.
	www.blogmaverick.com /2004/12/31/do-the-right-thing-cancel-inauguration-parties (2714 words)

	Do the Right Thing
		Sometimes doing the right thing may be more difficult or expensive than doing the wrong thing, but it IS the right thing.
		Very seldom do they ask themselves (or even care) what they are going to do with it when they get home or after the "newness" wears off and there starts to be some problems.
		Dumping the pet over someone else's fence, in the country, or on the side of the road is never the right thing.
	www.adoptpet.org /TheseDontChange/do_the_right_thing.htm (1117 words)

	Apollo Movie Guide's Review of Do the Right Thing
		Do the Right Thing's militant tone is established from the moment the opening credits roll, as Rosie Perez gyrates to the sounds of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." Never less than fascinating, Do the Right Thing has the greatness necessary to embrace its contradictions.
		Do the Right Thing climaxes with a riot, where in a defining moment Mookie takes action.
		But does he "do the right thing?" How you respond to the film may boil down to how you answer that question.
	www.apolloguide.com /mov_fullrev.asp?CID=599 (396 words)

	Do The Right Thing \| St. Louis KMOV-TV Channel 4
		These 10 "Do The Right Thing" Award winners are selected from the hundreds of children who are nominated each month by area parents, teachers, neighbors and friends.
		Since the inception of the "Do The Right Thing" program in the Fall of 1995, the program has attracted more than 25,000 nominations and has recognized all nominated students with a "Do The Right Thing" Award for their positive behaviors.
		Do The Right Thing of Greater St. Louis, Inc. is a non-profit organization operating throughout the KMOV viewing area.
	www.kmov.com /community/dtrt.html (697 words)

	Do the Right Thing DVD
		Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING is an electrifying motion picture that remains one of the 1980s' most powerful films.
		DO THE RIGHT THING was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999.
		Do The Right Thing is a Spike Lee Joint about the day in the life of a man in his street corners.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1235841/a/Do+the+Right+Thing.htm (1248 words)

	KtB - Do the Right Thing, Dammit
		I laughed, recognizing all the things between the lines of his remarks.
		I mean, to teach it from a perspective for which war is not understood as a normal mode of life.
		Give it a couple of decades, however, and you are part of a community, trying to do the right thing, often with consequences for other people.
	www.killingthebuddha.com /dogma/right_thing_dammit.htm (2390 words)

	Do the Right Thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But in retrospect--and despite director Spike Lee's rhetoric--Do the Right Thing may not be as profound as previously thought.
		But the entire neighborhood is featured as the film intercuts between various exchanges, many of them tinged with racial overtones: while Buggin Out (Giancarlo Esposito) challenges a white tenement owner when he feels slighted, down the street three men debate the right of a Korean to own a variety store in "their" neighborhood.
		The Passion of the Christ, Do the Right Thing relies too heavily on the personal baggage audiences are supposedly bringing to the film.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies9/DotheRightThing.htm (775 words)

	The New York Times Syndicate: The Right Thing: Sound Off
		Unfortunately I do not recall all of the specifics of the case and whether the person was involved in a civil or criminal action.
		However, I do recall one of the issues was wehther a man had been person had been drinking.
		Right now it amounts to paying higher prices (which can amount to $5-$10 a shopping trip) if you want your privacy.
	marketing.nytsyn.com /nytsyn/editorial/rightthing.html (2665 words)

	ethiopundit: Do the Right Thing
		Basic rights such as private ownership of property can ensure that citizens have a government in their service and not the reverse.
		these things are not easy to do but even a miss in any regard is better than going in entirely the wrong direction.
		In an other context we will consider why the proven concepts that have made so many societies prosperous and democratic (and others worldwide well on their way to being so) are often suspect in the societies where they are most desperately needed.
	ethiopundit.blogspot.com /2004/12/do-right-thing.html (1469 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Do the Right Thing Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A single block, in a single New York neighborhood, on a broiling summer day, is the allegorical setting for Do The Right Thing.
		Instantly, Do The Right Thing was a cause celebre, more breathlessly (and fearfully) awaited than any American film of its time.
		Do The Right Thing stands with Salt of the Earth, Our Daily Bread, and Fury as a wrenching film of social justice.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fnf05n3.html (756 words)

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