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Michael Jackson's birthday is now a Spike Lee joint. The celebrated filmmaker plans to commemorate what would have been the King of Pop's 51st birthday on Aug. 29 by hosting a massive block party in Brooklyn, The Root reports. Lee told the site he has been a Jackson fan since the beginning and was deeply affected by MJ's death. He said he grew up watching Jackson 5 morning cartoons and wanting an afro as "perfectly round" as Michael's. The two artists later collaborated on a music video for "They Don't Care About Us." Now Lee said he wanted to do...

Here is video of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly telling of a conversation he had with Movie Producer Spike Lee in of all places -- a Men's Room at the New York Knicks game. O'Reilly says he was "at the urinal" and in comes Spike Lee who takes his place "two down." O'Reilly then said Lee looked up and said to him, "So, have you found any weapons of mass destruction in here?" O'Reilly seemed greatly amused by it all. NOTE: This may fall into the "too much information" category. . . . . (Watch Video)

Filmmaker Spike Lee led the call for celebrities to join a boycott of the New York Post Friday during a raucous protest of a racially charged cartoon. Joined by his 11-year-old son, Lee told a crowd of about 300 people that he has bought the tabloid in the past - but no more. And he suggested athletes and entertainers shun the paper's writers because of Wednesday's cartoon, which compared President Obama with a crazed chimp by some interpretations. "This is not the end," Lee told the demonstrators, who marched in front of the Post's offices near Rockefeller Center shouting, "Shut...

I would love to see the NY Post go with this cartoon next. (I already sent it to them)

I guess this lets those evil Wall Street speculators off the hook . . . Spike Lee has declared that God himself ordained the financial crisis to happen when it did in order to propel Barack Obama to victory. The film director offered his odd analysis on today’s Morning Joe . . . but not before declaring that tomorrow’s inaguration will be “the most important day in the history of the United States of America.” JOE SCARBOROUGH: Let’s talk about tomorrow. What are you looking for? SPIKE LEE: I think it’s going to be one of — I think it’s...

Actually, that would be Chocolate City II. Spike Lee is heading to "Chocolate City" for the Inauguration of the post-racial president:

Here is video of Director Spike Lee on MSNBC's Morning Joe today, where he discussed the significance of Barack Obama's election as President. As usual for Lee, he was way over the top, and actually declared this the defining event of all human history! He said now, time itself would be marked as "BB" and "AB" - "Before Barack" and "After Barack." He makes the ultimate Messiah statement at the 4:14 mark of the video. . . . . (Watch Video)

LEE: What he's done is historic. This coalition which he's gotten: black, white, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, whatever. It's come together, and this has never been done before. And I think this thing is, predeortained or whatever you want to call it. I'm not gonna say that it's God. But this is not a mistake this is happening now. I don't think it's a mistake it's happening, that he's here when this country is at its lowest in many, many years......

B.C. and A.D? Get with it, old man. It's B.B./A.B. now. And George W. might have been "misunderestimated" as he engaged in "strategery." But that's so, like, yesterday. Barack Obama is "pre-deortained." By whom? Spike Lee stopped short of saying it is God's hand at work. But he was clearly speaking in quasi-religous terms as he discussed The One on today's Morning Joe. View video here. SPIKE LEE: I say, it's very simple. You have B.B.: Before Barack and A.B.: After Barack. And a bit later . . . LEE: What he's done is historic. This coalition which he's gotten:...

B.C. and A.D? Get with it, old man. It's B.B./A.B. now. And George W. might have been "misunderestimated" as he engaged in "strategery." But that's so, like, yesterday. Barack Obama is "pre-deortained." By whom? Spike Lee stopped short of saying it is God's hand at work. But he was clearly speaking in quasi-religous terms as he discussed The One on today's Morning Joe. View video here.

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 21) - Spike Lee has left his Hollywood talent agent of more than 15 years in the wake of the dismal box office performance of his latest movie. The combative filmmaker jumped to Endeavor from William Morris, three weeks after his World War Two movie "Miracle at St. Anna" opened to just $3.5 million (2.06 million pounds); the Disney release has grossed just $7.5 million to date. Before "Anna," Lee directed his largest-grossing film to date, the heist thriller "Inside Man," which drew $176 million worldwide in 2006. A sequel is one of several upcoming projects set...

From Times Online September 30, 2008 Italian war veterans denounce 'insulting' Spike Lee film Richard Owen, in Rome Italian partisan organisations are to stage protests tomorrow at the Italian premiere of Spike Lee's film Miracle at St. Anna, which they say is full of lies, and insults the memory of the Italian Resistance during the Second World War. The controversial film, already released in the United States, will be running in Italian cinemas from Friday. But it is being shown first at Viareggio on the Tuscan coast, close to the village of Sant' Anna di Stazzema in the Apennine hills...

Karma At The Weekend B.O. Posted by Dirty Harry on Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Spike Lee’s Miracle At St. Anna: There have been few films I wanted to see flop more than Spike Lee’s Miracle At St. Anna, and flop it has taking in a humiliating $3.2 million. I’ll see and review it in the coming days, but regardless of how good or bad it is, race-baiting to promote a film needs to forever be rewarded just like this. Tim Robbins’ The Lucky Ones: Kyle Smith: “The Friday night box office figures are in and it appears that the latest...

Toronto Miracle at St. Anna (Italy - U.S.) Spike Lee loses the battles and the war in “Miracle at St. Anna,” a clunky, poorly constructed drama designed to spotlight the little-remarked role of black American soldiers in World War II. Clocking in at 160 minutes, this is a sloppy stew in which the ingredients of battle action, murder mystery, little-kid sentiment and history lesson don’t mix well. Nor is it remotely clear who the audience is meant to be; the R rating pretty much rules out younger students, and extensive subtitles will deter action fans, who would be bored anyway....

Controversial Hollywood filmmaker Spike Lee is certain that the US presidential hopeful Barack Obama will change the face of African-American music if he wins the election. According to contactmusic.com, Lee is one of the many celebrities who is supporting the Democratic Party candidate Obama. Lee believes Obama will inspire a revival among artists. He said: "We gotta step it up. This is too important. We should use an event like Barack's presidency, which I feel is probably one of the most important moments in the history of this country, to galvanise us, to inspire us, and, yo, let's go! "I...

Spike Lee seems intent on inadvertently subverting Barack Obama's campaign. As we saw previously, Spike Lee suggested that rappers could be an important campaign asset for Obama. And now in an interview with an MSNBC reporter, Lee asserts that history can be divided into two epochs. Here is a transcript (emphasis mine): REPORTER: I'm joined now by Spike Lee who we found on the floor of the Democratic convention. First of all, it's such a key... SPIKE LEE: Amongst the Indiana delegates...REPORTER: And Florida too. Powerful delegations.LEE: (garbled) Florida and Indiana. That's all right.REPORTER: As someone who has been such...

And the leftists wonder why we snicker at all their Messianic language and imagery about Barry Soetero. They actually think that nobody on the Left talks about Obama in messianic terms. Then Spike Lee, during prime time convention coverage last night, comes up with this doozy: all of human history will, in the future, be divided between the BB and AB eras. Before Barack and After Barack. I kid you not.

Film producer Spike Lee believes Barack Obama has a secret weapon that will be a big asset to his campaign: rappers. Yes, in Spike Lee's opinion hip-hop music will be a key element in getting Obama elected. Lee expounded upon the importance of hip-hoppers in this election in the New York Times The Caucus: Mr. Lee, who has often uses hip-hop music and casts hip-hop stars in his films, said that rappers should, well, feel free to mince their too-hot words at such a crucial time in American politics. Of course, allowing hip-hoppers to play a part in a political...

I’m a hustler baby, I’m a hustlerI just want you to know, wanna let you knowIt ain’t where I been, it ain’t where I beenBut where I’m ’bout to go, top of the world!—Jay Z The race hustlers can almost taste it now—Obama at the top of the world. And now Spike Lee, Maxine Waters, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al. are joined by a new hustler-wannabe—Howard Dean. Yes, the Dean of scream. Yaaaaaaaaaaah! Whether he made a Freudian slip or not last week, Dean reminded me of the pathetic, race-confused “Raji” as played by Vince Vaughn in the...

Laura slaps down an idiot racist on the factor. This is a direct link to the video but they have a commercial at the beginning. Link

Still bitter from his spanking at the hands of Clint Eastwood (background here), conspiracy nut and race-monger Spike Lee is clinging to Barack Obama for revenge. He told a film festival crowd this week that he has gathered 1,000 hours of footage of his Obamessiah on the campaign trail and will produce a documentary about the candidate. The dour director instantly cheered up. Via SilverDocs, Lee gloats: Discussing his Hurricane Katrina epic When the Levees Broke, Lee referenced the current flooding in the midwest and said, “The infrastructure of this country is crumbling, and money’s going elsewhere.” He paused, then...

<p>Eastwood has no time for Lee's gripes. "He was complaining when I did Bird [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that's why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else." As for Flags of Our Fathers, he says, yes, there was a small detachment of black troops on Iwo Jima as a part of a munitions company, "but they didn't raise the flag. The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people'd go, 'This guy's lost his mind.' I mean, it's not accurate." Lee shouldn't be demanding African-Americans in Eastwood's next picture, either. Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx. "What are you going to do, you gonna tell a fuckin' story about that?" he growls. "Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I'm not in that game. I'm playing it the way I read it historically, and that's the way it is. When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like Bird, I use 90% black people."</p>

Director Spike Lee has waded into the controversy surrounding Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor whose provocative statements have proved a thorn in the side of Democrat frontrunner Barack Obama. Lee advises the preacher to do the right thing and keep quiet. "The more he opens his mouth, the more damage he does," he told the Guardian. For good measure, Lee hinted at a political conspiracy behind Wright's recent, contentious attempts to justify his remarks. "It looks like he's being paid to keep talking," he said. "Jeremiah Wight needs to be quiet," Lee said yesterday. "If he loves Obama he needs...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Spike Lee told a crowd at the University of Dayton to "do the right thing" in this year's presidential election. "We are living in some very exciting times," Lee said Monday. "And the months leading up to the election in November will determine which way this country is going to go; forward or backward. It's up to you to do the right thing." He said he supports Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. Dressed in a sweater, jeans and ball cap, Lee spoke of growing up in New York City, being a fairly average student at...

Last Updated: Thursday, 7 June 2007, 14:26 GMT 15:26 UK Lee film to honour black soldiers Lee recently received a Peabody award for excellence in electronic media Director Spike Lee is to make a film honouring the contribution of black US soldiers during World War II. Lee, who recently announced he would shoot a follow-up to his documentary about Hurricane Katrina, said their role has been overlooked by film. He told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that before films depicting the Vietnam war, black servicemen were "invisible". The picture will be based on James McBride's novel Miracle at St Anna and...

ATLANTA - Spike Lee always has been an avid sports fan. Growing up in New York, he eagerly flipped past the front pages each morning, searching out the elegant musings of Red Smith or another abrasive rant from Dick Young. But Lee wondered why a bunch of white guys were charged with shaping the viewpoints of people such as himself, an impressionable black kid eager for a balanced debate on such burning issues as: Who was the better player, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? Mantle was white, Mays black.

There is a virulent form of unpatriotism festering in America today. Like an algae bloom that deprives life of oxygen, it starves democracy of the air of reason. It now thrives on what we call the far Left, but like a dead zone off the coast, it moves with the tides. I am referring to the seditious dementia of conspiracy theories, the death of faith not in some mere administration or Congress but in America itself. Haven’t you heard? The U.S. government blew up the World Trade Center. Oh, sorry, that’s not right. The planes did knock down those buildings,...

The left and its media and Hollywood accomplices are using this Katrina anniversary once again to smear President Bush. The lies told by the Associated Press about the levees have been well documented (See “Oops, Bush Didn’t Lie, Sorry About That” on my website, in March, 2006), and as ‘Popular Mechanics’ pointed out, “In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest--and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm's landfall.

No one does righteous anger like Spike Lee. If there's one thing that marks the director's work, it's that sense that something is about to pop, no matter the topic. Then, all you can do is sit back and ponder the question of "How did it come to that?" That's why Lee was the perfect choice to create HBO's monumental documentary, "When the Levees Broke," which airs again tonight. Today marks the official anniversary of when those levees broke in New Orleans, creating a disaster never before seen in this country. In Lee's hands, "When the Levees Broke" doesn't seem...

For an outsider, Lee was able to at least partially grasp the uniqueness of New Orleans. However, his documentary was ultimately a very flawed piece of work. While Lee focused on the tragedy and the poor federal response, he neglected to mention all of the billions that have been allocated by Congress, and for months idling in the State Government treasury. Lee pointed plenty of fingers at the Army Corps of Engineers, but he totally neglected the responsibility of the Orleans Parish Levee Board for maintenance of the levees. While Lee blasted President Bush throughout the documentary, he exonerated the...

I'm watching Spike Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina with my mom. She's finally visiting since the storm hit a year ago. She lives in a FEMA trailer in the now gray-from-destruction yard in front of her broken home in the New Orleans neighborhood of Gentilly, next to the elementary school where she taught, which has remained closed. "When the Levees Broke" is hard to watch. It's hard to take. The anger. The sadness. All over again. What's it like to live in New Orleans now? "I'm sitting there thinking you know what?" a woman named Phyllis tells Lee. "If you...

Bush the villain of Katrina film Bob Dart August 21, 2006 Tears marked his 70-year-old cheeks as Arthur Brown, leaning on a walking stick, walked from the film that sought to tell his story. "I think it's a great movie," said Brown, on Spike Lee's documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. "I'm mad," he said. "We lost everything. I've worked all my life - minimum-wage jobs - and raised eight children. Now I've got nothing. My wife is 65. What little savings we had is gone. FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] hasn't been any help....

Tears marked his 70-year-old cheeks as Arthur Brown, leaning on a walking stick, walked from the film that sought to tell his story. "I think it's a great movie," said Brown, on Spike Lee's documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. "I'm mad," he said. "We lost everything. I've worked all my life - minimum-wage jobs - and raised eight children. Now I've got nothing. My wife is 65. What little savings we had is gone. FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] hasn't been any help. It's just not right." Brown was among thousands of survivors of...

NEW YORK — Several weeks after Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, HBO documentary executives were stumped. How to respond on film to something so monumental? "We were in a meeting one day and I said, `I guess we'll have to let Katrina go,'" said Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary and Family. "Then, literally within the hour, Spike called. It was like, `Eureka!'" Spike Lee was quickly signed to chronicle the storm and its aftermath in New Orleans. The first half of Lee's heartbreaking film, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," debuts Monday. The four-hour documentary marks...

Firebrand director Spike Lee has found an unlikely new target for his latest spray: the secretary of state. Says Lee: "I dislike Condoleezza Rice more than [President] Bush. The thing about it is that she's gotten a free ride from black people." Oh no, he didn't. "People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala., and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life," Lee tells the April issue of Stuff magazine.

From Indy Star website: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Filmmaker Spike Lee urged blacks not to support Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice if she seeks the Republican presidential nomination. Lee, director of "Malcolm X," "Jungle Fever" and "Do the Right Thing," spoke Wednesday on the Purdue University campus. He said everyone should register to vote -- and cast their ballots. And he urged blacks to look beyond race if Rice runs for president in 2008. During his speech, Lee told students they should use education to find their passion in life and then pursue it. He said that his family was...

2005 UNHINGED: THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES By Michelle Malkin   ·   December 26, 2005 09:03 AM Here are a few of the crackpot sights and ridiculous sounds that made 2005 a year to remember (many thanks to Ian Schwartz at The Political Teen for his indispensable video blogging): Video clips... 10. Spike Lee: Tinfoil hat-wearing levee expert 9. CNBC mugs Bernie Goldberg 8. Union thugs unhinged 7. Chris Matthews unhinged 6. MoveOn.org's homage to "American" troops 5. Liberal tolerance: "We have to exterminate white people." 4. Liberal math: George Washington = Terrorist 3. Philosopher-rapper Kanye West's telethon tirade: "George Bush doesn't...

Spike Lee is to produce and direct a documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for HBO, Variety reports. Provisionally entitled When the Levee Broke, early indications suggest it will continue Lee's tradition of polemical films addressing the US's fraught race relations. Lee has never been one to shy away from controversy, with films such as Do The Right Thing, about a race riot in Brooklyn; Jungle Fever, taking a contentious look at mixed-race love affairs, and his eponymous Malcolm X biopic. When the Levee Broke is currently waiting to go into production while Lee completes work on thriller The...

Filmmaker Spike Lee on Tuesday announced he is making a film for HBO about the post-Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans, and said he wouldn't be shocked if conspiracy theories of intentional government involvement in the flooding proved true. Lee's appearance on CNN, to promote his new co-authored memoir/biography, Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It, followed a report on the rumors circulating among evacuees that the government somehow engineered the flooding of the largely black and poor Ninth Ward section of New Orleans. CNN's report stressed that there is no evidence anyone caused the flooding on...

Spike Lee derides gangsta rap lyrics in T.O. speech Canadian Press TORONTO — Many black students today are failing in school on purpose because peer pressure via media images has convinced them that smart equals white and that it's cool to become pimps or "video ho's" says pre-eminent African-American filmmaker Spike Lee. And Lee told an audience comprised largely of Ontario university students that people can vote with their pocketbooks to convince artists, record companies and media conglomerates like Viacom that the images in today's music videos or lyrics in gangsta rap are unacceptable. "As African-Americans we let artists slide,"...

Oxford, OH -- Filmmaker Spike Lee told a crowd of college students that they should try to find a career that will make them happy, not necessarily one that will make them rich. "Hopefully, you'll be able to find a career path that you love and be able to make a living out of that," Lee told about 1,000 Miami University students Thursday.

Los Angeles- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, author of SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America, announced today the start of The 'Black' List Campaign, a campaign to expose Hollywood’s most anti-American black entertainers who are viciously criticizing the U.S. war on terror and lying to black Americans. Celebrities on the list include: Spike Lee, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Belafonte, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Will Smith among others. Rev. Peterson said, “I’m sickened by black entertainers who drive $350,000 Bentleys and still cry ‘racism.’ Americans of all colors pay to see their movies, and they have the nerve to...

Director Spike Lee sees his film "She Hate Me," (coming out next week) about corporate corruption as an indictment of the present Bush Administration. "If you are indicting big business, automatically, it's indicting George Bush," Lee says. "George Bush, he has more CEOs in his administration than any other president in the history of the United States of America." In the opening credits of his film, Lee put the president's photo on a three-dollar bill with an Enron logo. The often-controversial African American director of "Do the Right Thing" and "Summer of Sam" cast Woody Harrelson and Ellen Barkin in...

I just caught a clip of this on ESPN and couldn't help but notice the similarities between what Spike Lee said and that of what Rush said. Not only did he say Bird was the most overated player, he said that the "white media" would make you think that there were no great players before Larry Bird. I could tell that McKindry was uncomfortable with the story and it's going to be interesting to see how other's respond. Maybe we can get a comment from Isiah Thomas and Dennis Rodman who said that if Bird was a black man, he'd...

NEW YORK -- Film director Spike Lee criticized Janet Jackson's surprise breast-baring during the Super Bowl halftime show last weekend as a "new low" of attention-getting antics by entertainers. Meanwhile, Jackson issued another apology in a videotape released to the media. The pop star had apologized Monday night in a written statement. "I am really sorry if I offended anyone. That was truly not my intention," she said. "MTV, CBS, the NFL had no knowledge of this whatsoever, and unfortunately, the whole thing went wrong in the end." At the end of their duet Sunday, Justin Timberlake snatched off part...

Poor Spike Lee. The director/actor/ad creator/bombastic New York Knicks fan can’t get enough attention. He hasn’t had a hit at the box office, his ads for bankrupt Kmart went unnoticed, and his beloved Knicks are out of action until next season. No Page Six photos of Lee in his usual Madison Square Garden courtside conniptions. But Spike Lee craves publicity. So he found the next best way to get it. By suing Viacom over its new male-oriented Spike TV cable network (formerly TNN). In a clearly frivolous lawsuits, Lee is seeking an injunction against Viacom’s use of the name Spike...

Congratulations to Spike Lee who successfully completed Extortion 101 at Jackson ( Jesse that is ) University. Mr. Lee did not want his name soiled by something so base as what Spike TV is offering, until money was paid, and then he was not quite so worried about his 'good name'. It is disgusting, and disgraceful in today's racial pressure cooker, and slavery arguments that one of the African-American communities high profile representatives demonstrates to the world that blacks can still be bought and sold in America. Wasn't that what slavery was all about? Certainly an A+ grade must have...

NEW YORK (AP) - Filmmaker Spike Lee and Viacom have settled a lawsuit Lee filed to keep the media giant from calling its TNN cable television network "Spike TV." Lee had obtained a temporary injunction in June, preventing the name change, but on Monday state Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub lifted the order. The ruling means Viacom, which also owns CBS and MTV, can proceed immediately with plans to rebrand TNN as Spike TV, the "first television network for men." Viacom said it was renaming TNN "Spike TV" to attract more men to an audience already two-thirds male. Details on...

NEW YORK - Filmmaker Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is suing Viacom over its plans to rename the TNN cable network "Spike TV." Viacom's channel would appeal to American males aged 18 to 34. The media giant envisions a hairy-chested antidote to the Oxygen, Lifetime and WE channels geared to women. The accomplished motion picture director and his attorney - - none other than Johnnie "O.J." Cochran - - detect something far more nefarious: a plot by TNN and Viacom to capitalize on Lee's name. "It's clear when you say 'Spike,' everybody knows who you are talking about," Cochran told Manhattan...

Director Spike Lee has filed suit against Viacom over its plans to rename the TNN cable network Spike TV. In court documents filed Tuesday in New York, Lee asked for an injunction to prevent the name change from occurring. "I was extremely upset to see my name connected with a network when I had never given my consent to use my name," Lee said. Calling attention to the reasons Viacom officials presented for renaming the network ["It's unapologetically male; it's active; it's smart and contemporary with a personality that's aggressive and irreverent"], Lee said that those were all qualities "that...