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State Dinners And Their Odd Social Pairings (PHOTOS)

LIFE.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Salma Hayek, State Dinner, John Travolta, Ronald Reagan, Princess Diana, Slidepoll, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Spike Lee, State Dinner History, Manmohan Singh, Obama's First State Dinner, State Dinner Odd, State Dinner Photos, White House State Dinner Photo, Who Danced With Princess Diana in a Whitehouse State Dinner, White House State Dinner, Did Salma Hayek Date Harry Reid, Guest List State Dinner, Style News

Text and photos from LIFE.com, where you can check out more odd social pairings at state dinners. The state dinner dates back to 1874, when Ulysses G...

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Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell Turn Out For Knicks Game (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.23.2009 | Sports

Read More: Brooke SHields, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Slideshow, Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan, New York Knicks, Rosie Perez, Nba, Sports News

Despite the team's poor record, the stars are still coming out to see the New York Knicks. Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Brooke Shields, Tracy Morgan a...

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Time For Justice To Do The Right Thing

Bill de Blasio | Posted 10.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Politics, Race, Civil Rights, Keith Bardwell, Jungle Fever, Spike Lee, Barack-Obama, Justice-Department-Civil-Rights-Division, Interracial Marriage, Justice Department, Public Advocate, New York News
Bill de Blasio

Whether it's an interracial couple in Louisiana denied a marriage, or that blacks and Hispanics are 90% of the people frisked by NYC police, no place is immune to our history of racial struggle.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Spike Lee-Sponsored Michael Jackson Birthday Party Expecting Big Crowd In Prospect Park

AP | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Michael Jackson, Free Party, Michael Jackson Day, New York, Spike Lee, Fort Greene, Al Sharpton, Brooklyn, Spike Lee Michael Jackson, Dj Spinna, Prospect Park, Marty Markowitz, New York News

NEW YORK — Director Spike Lee's Brooklyn public celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday has been moved amid predictions of a big crowd. The f...

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Mighty Movie Podcast Exclusive: Spike Lee & Stew on Passing Strange: The Movie

Dan Persons | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Amsterdam, South Central LA, Live Performance, Broadway, Theater, Broadway Musicals, Digital Film, Spike Lee, Musicals, Interview, Exclusive, Germany, Public Theater, Berkeley, Sundance 2009, Stew, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

I got a chance to sit down with Spike Lee and singer/songwriter Stew to discuss the New York musical hit, Passing Strange.

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Spike Lee Plans Brooklyn Block Party For Michael Jackson's Birthday

Posted 09.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Michael Jackson Block Party, Spike Lee Block Party, Spike Lee, Michael Jackson Brooklyn, Michael Jackson Spike Lee, New York News

Spike Lee is planning a Brooklyn block party in honor of Michael Jackson's birthday. On August 29th, what would have been Jackson's 51st birthday, Le...

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HuffPost Review: Passing Strange

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Spike Lee, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Passing Strange Movie Review, Stew, Broadway, Broadway Show, Passing Strange, Broadway Plays, Performance, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

His odyssey takes him to Amsterdam, drugs, sex and the other joys of a rock'n'roll youth in the early 1970s. In the process, he discovers a whole philosophy of life, love and art.

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Obama 2012

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

Read More: 14th Amendment, Spike Lee, Bryant Park, Mark Penn, 2012 Election, Terrence Yang, Racism, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Zero Mostel, Tavis Smiley, 13th Amendment, Colin Powell, Do the Right Thing, Reconstruction, Heidi Klum, Melting Pot, Cipriani's, Robert Johnson, Hip-Hop, Seal, Deb Slott, W.E.B. Dubois, Segregation, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Criminal Industrial Complex, Sonia Sotomayor, Sidney Poiter, Virginia Davies, Shelby Steele, The Dance Flick, Pink Elephant, Booker T. Washington, Home News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.

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DVDs: "Mad Men Season 2" Gets Darker

Michael Giltz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, TV Shows, Cartoons, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Garrison Keillor, Friday Night Lights, Spike Lee, Movies, Dvds, Norman Lear, Mia Farrow, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

With the new season just around the corner in mid-August, it's a good time to catch up with Mad Men. It is one show that definitely rewards careful rewatching.

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Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater

Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

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Lauri Lyons

The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.

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Al Sharpton Busts A Move At Michael Jackson Memorial (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Al Sharpton Dancing, Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, Slideshow, Al Sharpton Michael Jackson, Entertainment News

Al Sharpton busted some serious moves at the Apollo Tuesday night during a memorial for Michael Jackson. In addition to dancing with director Spike Le...

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Kobe Doin' Work Sends the Right Message

Danny Groner | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Leadership, San Antonio Spurs, Kobe-Doin-Work, Youth, Espn, Kobe-Bryant, Spike Lee, Basketball, Teamwork, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, Documentary, Kobe Doin' Work, Critics, Nba, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

Kobe Doin' Work, Spike Lee's new original ESPN documentary, provides an up-close look at what Kobe Bryant thinks about and considers during an NBA game.

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TriBeCa Interview: Spike Lee Doin' Work

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Hbo, Bamboozled, Hbo-Real-Sports, Kobe Bryant, Do the Right Thing, Five for Five, Do-the-Right-Thing, LA Lakers, Best Seat in the House With Ralph Wiley, She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee, Mo' Better Blues, Kobe Doin' Work, 4 Little Girls, Passing Strange, Crooklyn, Malcom X, Media News
Matthew-Lee Erlbach

The goal in fiction and documentary making is to tell the story. I never try to lose sight of that.

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How Recent Documentary Films May Have Paved the Way to Embrace the Figure of Barack Obama

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dalton Trumbo, Fta, Ellen Spiro, Theater of War, Zana Briski, Trauma, War, Francine Parker, Susan Sontag, Phil Donahue, Jane Fonda, Fog of War, Spike Lee, Documentaries, Bertolt Brecht, Invasion of Iraq, Body of War, Politics, Ross Kauffman, Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11, Tomas Young, Vietnam War, Lila Lipscomb, Errol Morris, The Congressional Black Caucus, Heddy Honigmann, John Walter, Presidential Elections, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.

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What the Media Really Killed

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Post, Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, Racism, Chimp, Obama, Media, Press, Cartoon, Monkeys, New York Daily News, Media News
Ashley Rindsberg

Did the New York Post simply screw up, fail to take into account possible perceptions, and then get clubbed by a few shrewd competitors who saw a good opportunity? We'll never know.

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Fashion Alert: Cruelty is so Last Season!

Anne Sullivan | Posted 02.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Clothing, Animal Cruelty, Magic Johnson, Peta, Diddy, Demi Moore, Spike Lee, Clothes, Sheepskin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Animals, Outerwear, Coats, Wool, Fur, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Silverman, Laura Bush, Jenna Bush, Steven Spielberg, Jessica Alba, Kate Capshaw, Fur Industry, Fashion, Barbara Bush, Men's Fashion, Michelle Obama, Do the Right Thing, Bush, Martha Stewart, P. Diddy, Lynne Cheney, Beyonce, Winter Fashion, New York, New York City, Women's Fashion, Obama Inauguration Aretha Franklin, Jill Biden, Jackets, Jay-Z, Cruelty to Animals, Bush Twins, Rosie Perez Obama, Tonya Lewis, Style News
Anne Sullivan

Lynne Cheney had a big fur collar on the coat she wore to the inauguration. Figures, with a husband who shoots at living creatures as a hobby (and I don't just mean ducks).

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What The Inauguration Means To Me

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Carole Robertson, Indiana University School of Medicine, Goodman, Underground Railroad, Depauw University, Barack Obama Inauguration, Lorraine Wilson Patterson, Rosa Parks, Addie Mae Collins, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, African Americans, Barack Obamas Mother, Lorraine Patterson, Keith Woodard Scholarship Fund, Robert D Patterson, Mountain Top Speech, Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglas, Chaney, Promised Land, Barack Obama, University of Louisville, George Rawls, We Shall Overcome, Abraham Lincoln, Spike Lee, National Association of Black Journalist, Schwerner, So You Want to Be a Doctor, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Benjamin Carson, Harriet Tubman, Four Little Girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Living News
Robert D. Patterson

The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.

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Obama Inauguration Celebrities: Who, What And Where

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Shakira, Sheryl Crow, Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Will.I.Am, Spike Lee, Inaugurations, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — If you thought the Golden Globes was a party, just wait until you see Barack Obama's inauguration. Next week, Washington will look a ...

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Spike Lee: "I'm Not Rich Rich"

The Observer via Page Six | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment

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UPDATE: Apparently The Observer buys old New Yorker interviews, as this Spike Lee first appeared in last September's issue, and is now re-appearing f...

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Clint Eastwood On "Gran Torino," Getting Old And The Spike Lee Feud

AP | ALICIA QUARLES | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Gran Torino, Film, Spike Lee Clint Eastwood, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — As one of Hollywood's most honored figures, Clint Eastwood can be selective about his on-screen company _ and for "Gran Torino," he d...

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Spike Lee To Make Sundance Debut With A Musical

LA Times | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Spike Lee, Sundance Film Festival, Passing Strange, Entertainment News

More than 20 years after making his first splash with "She's Gotta Have It," Spike Lee is finally going to make it to Sundance. His belated debut -- i...

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Jim Brown on Barack Obama, Racism, Muhammad Ali, Hugh Hefner, Football, and Acting

Graham Bensinger | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Richard Pryor, Hugh Hefner, Jim Brown, Martin Luther King, Football, Jesse Jackson, Nfl, Barack Obama, Oliver Stone, Muhammad Ali, Politics, Acting, Spike Lee, Malcolm X, Racism, Touchdown, Raquel Welch, Nbc, Frank Sinatra, Bill Russell, Video, Jim Brown Obama, Politics News
Graham Bensinger

The day after the presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown. Brown discussed a wide range of topics, including what electing the first African American president means to him.

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Best Movies By Farr: Obama's Glorious Leap, and Key Films About The African-American Experience

John Farr | Posted 12.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Denzel Washington, Paul Winfield, Slavery, Cicely Tyson, Spike Lee, African-Americans, African-American Films, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Sidney Poitier, Entertainment News
John Farr

Prior to the 1960s, race portrayals in movies were mostly confined to servants and railroad porters. Only with the advent of the Civil Rights movement did the film industry dare address the authentic black experience.

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Celebrities On Election Night (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Slideshow, President Obama, Harvey Weinstein, Celebrities Talk Politics, Jessica Alba, Star Jones, Spike Lee, Ethan Hawke, James Franco, Barack Obama, Entertainment News

Bold-faced names gathered on election night at parties around the country. In Chicago Oprah joined in the celebration in Grant Park. Viewing parties i...

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