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Spike Lee

Spike Lee is one of the most prominent and influential media figures today. His films include the critically acclaimed School Daze; Academy Award nominee Do the Right Thing; Malcolm X; Clockers; and 25th Hour. Born in Atlanta, Spike attended Morehouse College and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned his master of fine arts degree in film production. Spike and his wife are the authors of Please, Baby, Please, their first picture book with Simon & Schuster. They live in New York City with their two children.

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Giant Steps to Change the World will be released on May 03, 2011 in eBook
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Giant Steps to Change the World is now available in eBook
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Giant Steps to Change the World will be released on January 04, 2011 in Hardcover
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Giant Steps to Change the World is now available in Hardcover
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Not Just the Levees Broke will be released on August 11, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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Not Just the Levees Broke is now available in Trade Paperback
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AOL Black Voices, June 14, 2013
...video cinematographer, the Newark, N.J., native went on to make his feature film debut in 1983 on Spike Lee's first film "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads." An alum of both Howard University and New York University, Dickerson collaborated with Lee...
Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2013
...addition to the Poncho Sanchez collaboration "Chano y Dizzy," he's remained a first-call film composer (with Spike Lee's "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise" and George Lucas' "Red Tails" among his latest), and in his spare time wrote an opera,...
Vida en el Valle, June 13, 2013
...because of his extensive orchestral experience that includes writing scores for more than 50 films, including most of Spike Lee's. The 51-year-old Blanchard agreed to undertake the biggest musical project of his career in part to honor his father who...
Lonely Planet, June 11, 2013
...Three words strung together that draw longing sighs from artists across the globe. Whether you’re a rookie Spike Lee, a 21st-century Warhol, or a greenhorn Garfunkel, feed your creativity at these inspiring New York City hangouts. Museum of the...
Final Call, June 11, 2013
...and J.A. Rogers; Writers James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Julius Lester and Alice Walker; and Entertainers Michael Jackson, Spike Lee, Ice Cube, Arsenio Hall, Muhammad Ali, Public Enemy, Oprah Winfrey—this is just a few!  Look at the “great company”...
Indiewire, June 11, 2013
...him again. Virgo, whose own previous films are partly remembered for their "high-octane" style, with comparisons to early Spike Lee works (Do the Right Thing, notably), says he definitely understands the "energy" in the novel he is adapting, and knows...
Broadway World, June 11, 2013
...feature films American Violet starring Oscar-nominee Alfre Woodard, All Things Fall Apart featuring 50 Cent, the latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn Red Hook Summer and the acclaimed theatrical romantic comedy Russ Parr's 35 & Ticking....
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 8, 2013
...won the award as a 21-year-old in 1978 for his student documentary, joining other past winners such as Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis and Trey Parker. Saget's film was called Through Adam's Eyes, which was about his then seven-year-old nephew who had...
Register Hardware, June 8, 2013
...on it – in this case, "X". Maybe that sign is a merely a reference to a certain Spike Lee movie, but our money is on Apple's now-secondary operating system, OS X, which will certainly be discussed not only from the keynote stage, but also during many...
The Register, June 8, 2013
...on it – in this case, "X". Maybe that sign is a merely a reference to a certain Spike Lee movie, but our money is on Apple's now-secondary operating system, OS X, which will certainly be discussed not only from the keynote stage, but also during many...
Register Hardware, June 8, 2013
...on it – in this case, "X". Maybe that sign is a merely a reference to a certain Spike Lee movie, but our money is on Apple's now-secondary operating system, OS X, which will certainly be discussed not only from the keynote stage, but also during many...
World News Network, June 8, 2013
...the second largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the Brooklyn Museum. Two films of Spike Lee, She's Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing were shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[citation needed] The Brooklyn Museum, opened...
The Georgian Times, June 8, 2013
...and very loyal audience, but is generally much underrated.  Directors like Jim Jarmusch, Alejandro González Iñárritu, WimWenders, Spike Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci, IstvánSzabó and other outstanding names have done their fair share of shorts. I’m...
World News Network, June 8, 2013
...the second largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the Brooklyn Museum. Two films of Spike Lee, She's Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing were shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[citation needed] The Brooklyn Museum, opened...