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	about spike lee, film directors, movie directors
		Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta Georgia.
		Lee went on to produce the jazz biopic Mo' Better Blues (1990), which is often considered heavy handed, but still good, and did not seem to be as controversial as his previous efforts, but showed his talent for directing and acting, and was the first of many Spike Lee films to feature Denzel Washington.
		Lee's next film was the self-titled biography of Malcolm X (1992), which had Denzel Washington portraying the civil rights leader.
	www.celebsa-z.com /bios/spike_lee.htm (710 words)

	Spike Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lee and his younger siblings were fortunate in having an opportunity to attend the school where their mother taught for free.
		Lee was not always driven to be a filmmaker; when he was younger he wanted to become a professional athlete.
		Lee's first project in graduate school seemed to have caused a lot of trouble for him, almost to the point of being kicked out of school.
	www.wc.pdx.edu /spikelee/index.html (853 words)

	Spike Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2003 Lee sued the Spike TV television network claiming that they were capitalizing on his fame by using his name for their network.
		Spike Lee is a huge fan of the New York Knicks and often had confrontations with the Knicks' nemesis, Indiana Pacers' Reggie Miller.
		Spike is also one of the biggest supporters of world soccer giants Inter Milan, in 2005 he became the 40,000th ticket holder of the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy - the second year in a row that Spike Lee has owned an Inter Milan season ticket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spike_Lee (2073 words)

	Astrology at the Movies: Spike Lee
		Spike Lee was born on the cusp of Pisces and Aries.
		Lee is either a Pisces or an Aries, not a little of both.
		For example, Lee could be a Pisces and still have an angry, aggressive edge, because he has Mars, the planet of sex, assertion and aggression, square (a tense 90 degree angle) Pluto, the planet of power, intensity and transformation.
	www.jeffreykishner.com /movies/2006/04/spike-lee.html (1014 words)

	Spike Lee
		Shelton Jackson Lee aka Spike Lee was born on 20 March 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia.
		Spike Lee's interest in film started at Morehouse College in Atlanta from which he graduated in 1979 with a B.A. in mass communications (as did Pamm Jackson, the associate producer of She's Gotta Have It).
		Spike Lee wrote, directed and starred in She's Gotta Have It (1988), which was shot on a budget of just $175,000, yet grossed $8 million.
	www.biogs.com /famous/leespike.html (504 words)

	Spike Lee Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Spike Lee made a name for himself in 1986 with the hit independent film She's Gotta Have It, a frank comedy about the many lovers of an independent Brooklyn woman.
		The film established Lee's as a rising young fl filmmaker, a rarity at the time, and his skills and independence, along with his outspoken African-American perspective and feisty public persona, kept him in the public eye throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
		Lee often appears in his own films, and his She's Gotta Have It character Mars Blackmon, a sports-loving New York nebbish, was resurrected in well-known Nike commercials of the 1990s.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/spikelee.html (340 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Style: Style Showcase
		Lee derides many of today's fl films as "coonish, clownish type work." He says his failure to win an Oscar this year in the documentary category for "4 Little Girls" was predictable, given that the competition -- and ultimate winner -- was a film about the Holocaust.
		While Lee is proud of the authenticity of the basketball sequences, he says the central message of the movie is "redemption, forgiveness and, on a broader scale, relations between parents and their children.
		Lee says he believes there is a double standard for offensive language in the entertainment industry, citing the pressure that Michael Jackson faced in 1995 to rerecord two passages in a song about intolerance.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/features/lee.htm (2048 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Spike Lee
		Spike Lee: Well, I just had a feeling that I had to do something in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
		Lee: The reason I love sports so much is because I was introduced to them at an early age by my father, at old Madison Square Garden, going to hoop tripleheaders, in the daytime, and night.
		Lee: Last week, Filip Bondy in the Daily News, in evaluating how the current Yankees stack up against the Yankee teams of the past, wrote that as far as baseball was concerned, anything before 1947 doesn't count.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/questions/spikelee.html (2127 words)

	America needs Spike Lee's message
		Filmmaker Spike Lee has a knack for getting in your face, for making you see realities you might not notice or may be inclined to duck.
		Spike called Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld "a gangster" and then focused his lens on the recent disclosure of photos showing acts of brutality and humiliation visited on Iraqi detainees by American soldiers.
		Spike excoriated violence celebrated by rappers such as 50 Cent, whose album "Get Rich Or Die Tryin" sends out the not-so- tacit message that it is OK to shoot, kill or do bad things so long as it leads to money, fancy cars and women.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /jamieson/172648_robert10.html (1110 words)

	BBC - Films -article article - Spike Lee Profile
		Born Shelton Lee in Atlanta in 1957 and raised in Brooklyn, his canon of films has established him as one of the modern era's most provocative and controversial movie makers.
		Lee's magnum opus came in the shape of a biopic about fl activist Malcolm X. Featuring a spectacular Oscar-nominated central performance by Denzel Washington, this three-hour epic earned plaudits and criticism for its portrayal of the slain leader.
		Married since 1993 to Tanya Lynette Lewis, with two children, Lee's latest film is "Bamboozled", another satire on the lack of fl talent in the television industry.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/11/24/spike_lee_article.shtml (370 words)

	Spike Lee St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Over time, Spike Lee managed to become one of the most highly visible celebrities in America through his entrepreneurial ventures, his controversial statements in the media, and his daring artistic achievements in film.
		In fact, Lee became known in the media for his open criticism of fl celebrities whom he felt had neglected their racial communities.
		Lee finally won the rights in the early 1990s to undertake his most ambitious project: a film biography of the great Muslim civil rights leader Malcolm X,; starring Denzel Washington.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200707 (1065 words)

	eFilmCritic - The Spike Lee Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Spike Lee has directed 21 films, produced or executive-produced 19, has writer credit on 11, and is the author of numerous books aimed at "the demystification of filmmaking" which allow us access to the Spike Lee journey.
		Lee began by stating that his motivation for making Summer of Sam was the same as for any of his films; to tell the story that he likes.
		I asked Lee whether he thought some of the audience was disappointed that the film was not an intimate portrait of The Son of Sam.
	efilmcritic.com /hbs.cgi?feature=141 (1881 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Hilden: Spike Lee v. Spike TV
		Spike Lee is a renowned filmmaker whose body of work includes the landmark features "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X," as well as the acclaimed civil rights documentary "4 Little Girls." His is a household name.
		A lesser celebrity than Lee, and, indeed, an ordinary person may also sue to vindicate his or her "right of publicity." After all, the right of publicity is ultimately a variant on state law rights of privacy; it has nothing to do with celebrity.
		Since Lee has decided so strongly to stand behind his own name and image throughout his career, he shouldn't now be faulted for standing up for the integrity of that name and image in court.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /hilden/20030609.html (1887 words)

	AWOL Magazine: The Bait, the Switch, and the Sell-out:The Spike Lee Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Through his high profile, vociferous nature, Lee continued to place himself at the center of public controversy, and continued to, suprisingly, thrive as a major hollywood player, and all the while maintain his street credibility.
		Nowhere in Lee’s ads is it pointed out that 57% of those who enroll in the GI Bill receive no educational benefits at all, and additionally 23% get only half of their benfits.
		Lee makes no mention of the fact that people of color are twice as likely to receive dishonorable discharges than white people in the armed forces.
	awol.objector.org /articles/spikelee.html (1083 words)

	The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog: Spike Lee
		Spike Lee's four-hour Katrina doc "When the Levees Broke" has shown up on YouTube in 26 parts.
		Sheigh looks into Spike Lee's videogame commentary in "Inside Man" and talks to Lee's long-time composer Terence Blanchard about the score and his use of a Bollywood song to open and close the movie.
		I did Spike cover stories for Mother Jones and EW, hung out with him in Cannes when he was robbed of the Palme d'Or for "Do the Right Thing," and wrote a later column on 25th Hour for New York Magazine.
	reporter.blogs.com /risky/spike_lee/index.html (1392 words)

	Spike Lee News
		Spike Lee has reportedly signed a deal to make a film charting the life of 'Godfather of Soul' James Brown, who died earlier this week.
		Spike Lee, in his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing, managed to examine the whole of fl thought on the race question.
		Malcolm X director Spike Lee is set to take on another hot-button political issue when he brings the drama of the 1992 Los Angeles riots to the big screen.
	www.topix.net /who/spike-lee (743 words)

	Spike Lee's 'Requiem' for New Orleans - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Lee's devastating film, LeBlanc is a frequent, and frequently hilarious, presence, a fuming Greek chorus of one who still can't believe that, for nearly a week, her country left her and her neighbors for dead.
		Lee is older and wiser than the man who made "Do the Right Thing," and the result is arguably the most essential work of his 20-year career.
		Lee's voice is rarely heard; he lets Terence Blanchard's thundering brass score, dizzy with grief, do the speaking for him.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14322933/site/newsweek (931 words)

	Deroy Murdock on Spike Lee & Spike TV on National Review Online
		His vanity is almost as stunning as the fact that Judge Tolub agreed with Lee and issued a preliminary injunction, thus pressing the pause button on Viacom's plans to unveil its project on June 16.
		Spike Lee's civil action is an Oscar-worthy example of the litigation culture that is consuming America like a $500-per-hour tumor.
		Lee would have a case if TNN re-christened itself "The Spike Lee Channel." That surely would involve trading on the 46-year-old director's name with neither permission nor compensation.
	www.nationalreview.com /murdock/murdock062603.asp (1009 words)

	Spike Lee / Independent Filmmaker - In Motion Magazine
		The following talk was given by Spike Lee at the Imagination Conference in San Francsico, June 8, 1996.
		Spike Lee told of his early years as an independent filmaker and some of the efforts to release the movie Malcolm X. He then showed some of the commercials he directed for Nike and Levi's as well as an extended version of music video he did for Michael Jackson.
		For a brief biography of Spike Lee and a complete listing of his work in film, videos, commercials and books - click here.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /slee.html (2681 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Spike Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lee felt that the refusal to grant him the waiver was a definite case of racism.
		Lee problems began early on with a group called the United Front to Preserve the Memory of Malcolm X and the Cultural Revolution.
		Lee seems to be misquoted often, and finds it a nuisance to explain things he did not say.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/lee_s.htm (3137 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Spike Lee \| PBS
		The son of the jazz composer Bill Lee, he was reared in a middle-class Brooklyn neighbourhood.
		Lee's feature film debut was She's Gotta Have It (1986), a prismatic character study about the love life of a contemporary fl woman.
		Many of Lee's films can be classified as family affairs; his father, Bill, contributed music to She's Gotta Have It and Mo' Better Blues, among others; his sister, Joie, played major roles in several productions; and his brother David Charles Lee was the still photographer.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/spike_lee.html (468 words)

	BRAVOtv.com : Inside the Actors Studio : Guest : Spike Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957.
		Since then, Lee has been regarded as one of today's most influential filmmakers because of his outspoken and provocative portrayal of African-American life.
		Lee also is a member of the Advisory Board for The Independent Film Channel.
	www.bravotv.com /Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guests/Spike_Lee.shtml (385 words)

	Interrogating Spike Lee. - By Lee Siegel - Slate Magazine
		Lee: Look, you get into that position and you know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.
		Lee: There is that part of the moviegoing segment, but I'm still convinced that a larger segment wants to be stimulated.
		Lee: I'm telling you, it's my belief that people went to see that film because there was nothing else to see.
	www.slate.com /id/2131367 (1682 words)

	Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Spike Lee, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, made his stunning debut into the film world with She's Gotta Have It in 1986.
		Lee has always been a basketball fan, which you can see in some of his other films like Crooklyn, and this is his tribute.
		Lee's tribute to jazz that touches on the themes of friendship, loyalty, talent, and love.
	www.geocities.com /fidelio1st/film/Lee.html (868 words)

	Spike Lee @ Filmbug UK
		Spike Lee is one of Hollywood's most important and influential filmmakers.
		Lee is also well known for his Levi's Button Fly 501, AT&T and ESPN television commercials.
		Lee is also involved in documentaries and sport programs, having completed the Emmy- and Oscar-nominated documentary, 4 Little Girls, for HBO and receiving an Emmy award for his piece on John Thompson for HBO/Real Sports.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/980 (503 words)

	Floridian: Spike Lee back in theaters, hot seat
		Lee didn't argue when I suggested that She Hate Me could have used the Kill Bill technique, breaking the story into two separate and distinctly different films.
		Lee hasn't fallen into that trap, or else it wouldn't be as difficult to find studio support for the films he wants to make.
		Lee railed against that trend in popular entertainment in Bamboozled (2000), in which a TV executive (Damon Wayans) creates a minstrel-era variety show filled with African-American stereotypes that becomes a hit.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/07/23/Floridian/Spike_Lee_back_in_the.shtml (1400 words)

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