Spike Lee offered a lengthy interview to Britain’s Sunday Observer, and explained to the reporter that despite a Manhattan townhouse, Martha’s Vineyard home and kids in private school, he is not wealthy.
He told me he had always intended his kids to go, as he did, to state schools. “But my wife put the kibosh on [...]
Spike Lee tells King magazine that his recent war of words with Clint Eastwood likely cost him an Oscar nomination.
As you may recall, Spike dissed Clint for not having black actors in Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. Eastwood then said Lee should “shut his face.” That caused Spike [...]
Spike Lee is saying some controversial things about Barack Obama’s blackness.
The headline-making director is lashing out at critics who say the presidential hopeful is not “black enough.”
“First, I go by the ‘one-drop rule,’” he said in Denver, where he has come to see firsthand his man accept the Democratic nomination for President. “One drop [of [...]
Clint Eastwood says Spike Lee should “shut his face” about putting black actors into a movie about raising the flag at Iwo Jima.
In a new interview with the Guardian, Eastwood dismisses Lee’s complaint that he had failed to include a single black soldier in his films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo [...]
Spike Lee let it rip at Cannes yesterday, taking jabs at fellow directors Clint Eastwood and the Coen brothers.
Speaking about his World War II drama Miracle at St. Anna, Lee said that, unlike the Coens, he was respectful in the way he portrayed death.
Said Spike at a news conference: “I always treat life and [...]
