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20 unusual facts about Spike Lee


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The film has critics dubbing Neco Celik as the next Spike Lee.

Attack Me With Your Love

The music video for "Attack Me with Your Love" was set in New York City and included appearances by Debbi Morgan, Spike Lee, Savion Glover, Maurice Hines, and Laurence Fishburne.

Brian Atwater

Time Magazine nominated him as one of the 100 most influential people in 2005, along with the likes of Spike Lee and Ziyi Zhang.

Bull Connor

Spike Lee's documentary 4 Little Girls (about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama in 1963) includes footage of Connor and interviews with people describing police brutality under his watch.

Cynthia Hedge-Morrell

District 97 roughly covers the same area as District D. Hedge-Morrell and her spouse were among the participants in movie director Spike Lee's documentary When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is an upcoming independent romantic horror comedy directed by Spike Lee.

Gym shorts

The first time today's "baggy" or "bermuda" look was publicized was when Michael Jordan wore baggy shorts in the Nike commercial with Spike Lee in 1988.

Indiana Pacers

Miller also flashed the choke sign to the Knicks' number one fan, Spike Lee, while leading the Pacers to the come from behind victory.

Jazzmobile

He has appeared on Broadway as the pianist for the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, "Black and Blue" and recorded on Spike Lee's movie, "Mo' Better Blues."

Joseph Vogel

He has appeared in several documentaries, including Spike Lee's Bad 25 (film) and This Divided State.

Knicks–Pacers rivalry

They met in the playoffs 6 times from 1993-2000, fueling a rivalry epitomized by the enmity between Reggie Miller and prominent Knick fan Spike Lee.

Despite the animosity between the 2 teams, Miller was featured in a cameo in the 1998 film He Got Game, directed by Spike Lee.

Miller hit several long 3's during the quarter while engaging in an animated discussion with Spike Lee, who was seated courtside.

LIVE from the NYPL

Since 2005, guests such as Tina Brown, Spike Lee, Umberto Eco, Jay-Z, Salman Rushdie, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Werner Herzog, and many others have appeared in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building to talk about subjects such as literature, art, popular culture, philosophy, and music.

Mark Ledford

Ledford would also later contribute to the soundtracks for the Spike Lee films Mo' Better Blues and Do the Right Thing.

Ron Norsworthy

These early projects launched a decade in which Norsworthy designed award-winning films, videos, and commercials, working with well-known directors such as Hype Williams, Spike Lee, and Brett Ratner.

Vernon Maxwell

Letterman asked his guest, Spike Lee, if there was a similar player on the Rockets who brandished Reggie Miller's manner, to which Spike replied, "Mad Max".

William D. Foster

Films such as Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000), about a black television executive who decides to make a minstrel show and is appalled by its success, still convey the same stereotypes that Foster was trying to convey nearly one hundred years earlier.

Winceyco

The limited liability company was founded by Wincey Terry, a professional vocalist who has worked with industry notables like Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, Tina Turner, and Garrison Keilor.

CEO Wincey Terry's career in music as a vocalist has placed her in collaborative projects with celebrities like Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, Tina Turner, and Garrison Keilor.


1977 World Series

The 1977 New York Yankees is one of the key plot points, along with the Son of Sam and the New York City Blackout of 1977, in the movie Summer of Sam directed by (Yankees fan) Spike Lee.

Backporch Revolution

(1)This followed the extremely popular and visible "New Orleans: Proud To Swim Home" bumper sticker which was a conception of Dan Haugh, and seen in the Spike Lee documentary When the Levees Broke.

Barry Alexander Brown

As a film editor, he is best known for collaborations with film director Spike Lee, editing some of Lee's best known films including Do the Right Thing (1989), Malcolm X (1992), He Got Game (1998), 25th Hour (2002) and Inside Man (2006).

Dean Edwards

His work as a voice actor includes Scottie Pippen and Spike Lee in Celebrity Deathmatch, a robot in Robotomy, and Donkey in Scared Shrekless after Eddie Murphy refused to reprise his role (which Edwards is also known for, and impersonated Murphy while providing the voice of Donkey).

Dinerral Shavers

He appeared in the Spike Lee film When the Levees Broke discussing the devastation of his family home in the Lower 9th Ward.

Eddie Marrero

Eddie Marrero has appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and co-starred in the historic first ever mini-series for teens "Miracle's Boys" from director Spike Lee for Nickelodeon's The N. Other TV credits include NBC's Third Watch, and the Law & Order franchise.

Girl 6

We now look in on Judy's dissolved relationship with her kleptomaniac ex-husband (Isaiah Washington), as well as her relationship with her baseball-memorabilia obsessed best friend, Jimmy (Spike Lee).

Jack Travis

He designed Spike Lee's home and was the architectural consultant for Lee's film Jungle Fever.

Jon Schroder

In addition to writing and directing, Schroder worked in various crew positions on the televisions shows, The Sopranos, Law & Order, and Sex in the City as well as for the films Spider-man, Kissing Jessica Stein, and Spike Lee’s 3 A.M.

Lindy Hop

The Harlem Lindy Hop dance club and zoot suit culture forms a colourful backdrop in the early part of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.

National Black Arts Festival

People of all ages and races have gathered together to bask in the presence of: Maya Angelou, Charles Dutton, Wynton Marsalis, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Nancy Wilson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spike Lee, Ousmane Sembène, Pearl Cleage, Kenny Leon, Carrie Mae Weems, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Sanchez and literally thousands of other artists from the USA and around the world.

Nelson George

He first got involved in film when, in 1986, he helped to finance director Spike Lee's debut feature She's Gotta Have It.

Niesha Butler

She was also cast in the lead for Spike Lee's 'Love and Basketball', opposite Omar Epps, but not allowed to play the role because of collegiate sports rules.

Numbers game

The Spike Lee biographic film Malcolm X portrays some of the revolutionary black leader Malcolm X's early days in Harlem, where he worked as a numbers runner for a man named "West Indian Archie."

Nuttin' But Love

The first track on the album, "Friend & Respect", featured spoken intros by the likes of LL Cool J, Buju Banton, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Little Shawn, MC Lyte, Martin Lawrence, Pete Rock, Positive K, Q-Tip, Queen Latifah, Spike Lee and Treach.

Paolo Marinou-Blanco

After a directing internship in 2003 with Spike Lee on Sucker Free City , he began work on “Goodnight Irene”, his first feature film, shot in Portugal and Spain.

Skip Lievsay

Skip Lievsay is a New York-based supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television, Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors including the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.

Sue Evans

Other associations include touring or recording with Aretha Franklin, Sting, Spike Lee, James Brown, Billy Cobham, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Philip Glass, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Don Sebesky, Sadao Watanabe, Hubert Laws, Randy Brecker, David Sanborn and Terence Blanchard.