Tag: School Daze
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Samuel L. Jackson Details Spike Lee Feud Over ‘Malcolm X’ Casting
Samuel L. Jackson is detailing his 1992 falling out with Spike Lee that took more 20 years to rebuild.Jackson, in a wide-ranging interview with Vulture, shared that the creative split from Lee was due to a “Malcolm X” salary dispute which ultimately led Jackson to turn down the role of Baines in the historical epic.…
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Spike Lee’s ‘School Daze’ Put Black College Life in Mainstream Movies
It’s been 35 years since Spike Lee’s sophomore feature film, School Daze, brought cinema’s first exploration into the lives of students at a historically Black college and tackled subjects that weren’t widely discussed, not just in college films, but in American cinema as a whole. In School Daze, issues such as colorism, hair bias, divisions…
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Spike Lee to Direct Roger Guenveur Smith’s ‘Frederick Douglass Now’ (Exclusive)
Spike Lee is set to direct Frederick Douglass Now, his third movie adaptation of a one-man stage show by Roger Guenveur Smith, after A Huey P. Newton Story and Rodney King.The new film is set up at Buffalo 8, which produced “Rodney King” with Luna Ray Media. Netflix acquired “Rodney King” last year. “Frederick Douglass…