Spike Lee: Do The Right Thing
June 29, 1989 | Summertime, and the movies are easy. And that's as it should be, in the considered opinion of most Hollywood heavyweights. It's conventional wisdom, accepted as gospel: During…
Spike Lee Strikes Back at Critics
June 29, 1989 | For filmmaker Spike Lee, the best defense is an in-your-face counterattack. At the Cannes International Film Festival, where Jeannie Williams of USA Today was a conspicuously vocal…
Video Stars
July 26, 2000 | From the golden age of Hollywood studios to the twilight of the drive-in circuit, they were known as B-movies: Low-budget, high-concept genre flicks, shrewdly derivative of…
Patrick Swayze: Dancing On Top Of The World
August 19, 1987| Flashback: Spring 1983, Los Angeles. As the late afternoon sun casts lengthening shadows in the near-deserted coffee shop of the Westwood Marquis hotel, I'm talking with a very…