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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: orangewhip on March 22, 2010, 08:45:28 PM
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Searching the forum for "spike lee" doesn't help.
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Just bumping this. C'mon, surely someone knows the episode!
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a quick scan of Omar's recaps turns up nothing. anybody? I'd love to hunt this one down.
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In the meantime, there's no shortage of stories of Spike being a jerk to other people.
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the one were the bodyguard tells him to "sit down whitey" and it turns out it was the dog named whitey
and there is huge gift basket in room after because it cracked the other guy up so much?
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the one were the bodyguard tells him to "sit down whitey" and it turns out it was the dog named whitey
and there is huge gift basket in room after because it cracked the other guy up so much?
LOLing... so hard.... oh man. Great one, TE.
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the one were the bodyguard tells him to "sit down whitey" and it turns out it was the dog named whitey
and there is huge gift basket in room after because it cracked the other guy up so much?
wait, I thought that was the David Brenner/Bruce Boxleitner/Leroy Niemann story
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Wasn't that on the OLD old Bob Newhart show? Not the one with Larry and Darryl and Darryl, the one with Major Healey.
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the one were the bodyguard tells him to "sit down whitey" and it turns out it was the dog named whitey
and there is huge gift basket in room after because it cracked the other guy up so much?
LOLing... so hard.... oh man. Great one, TE.
no, no Tom really did a version of that story
can't remember who the celebrity was.
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He got along great with Whitey Herzog, or so the story goes.
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the one were the bodyguard tells him to "sit down whitey" and it turns out it was the dog named whitey
and there is huge gift basket in room after because it cracked the other guy up so much?
LOLing... so hard.... oh man. Great one, TE.
no, no Tom really did a version of that story
can't remember who the celebrity was.
Tom got his story wrong. The celebrity was Eddie Murphy, the dog was named Lady and Tom was a woman. Then he wrote it up for the Bob Newhart Show.
http://www.snopes.com/racial/mistaken/hitfloor.asp (http://www.snopes.com/racial/mistaken/hitfloor.asp)
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The only thing keeping Spike Lee from my hate pit is Bamboozled.
That was an alright flick.
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Asshole or not, some of Spike Lee's movies are great. Bamboozled is the only one you like? Do the Right Thing is one of my favorite movies ever.
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I've tried watching some of his other movies, but as a white guy, it's really just too alienating. Shallow? Maybe, but I can live with that.
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Do The Right Thing kind of leaves all the opinions as to who is right and wrong up to the viewer. Sal and his sons aren't necessarily meant to be seen as bad guys. The movie is about racial tension coming to a boil on a hot hot summer day. Mookie is hardly an ideal protagonist and I don't think he was meant to be seen as a hero. Some theorize that Mookie throwing the garbage can through the window directed the angry crowd's violence toward the building rather than Sal himself. I don't think Lee intended the film to be as "black & white" (no pun intended) as a lot of people think it is. The contrasting MLK/Malcolm X quotes at the end are pretty good evidence of this. But that's just my opinion.
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I think "Do the Right Thing" is unimpeachable, and there's a few other flicks of his that I enjoyed a lot. But he's got a lot of crap in his filmography. Granted, the same can be said of many directors.
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ok I remember as a kid, my mom told me this same story, except it was her friend ending up in an elevator with Lionel Ritchie in Century City. This was in the 80s. Lionel's "command" was "Down, Lady". Afterward, Lionel "sent the woman a hand written apology, and an autographed picture of himself."
OK, whatever. This happened long ago. But no, she keeps retelling me this story! As recently as five months ago. "Remember when my friend was in the elevator with Lionel Ritchie?"
Sounds like mom's getting a call this weekend.
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ok I remember as a kid, my mom told me this same story, except it was her friend ending up in an elevator with Lionel Ritchie in Century City. This was in the 80s. Lionel's "command" was "Down, Lady". Afterward, Lionel "sent the woman a hand written apology, and an autographed picture of himself."
OK, whatever. This happened long ago. But no, she keeps retelling me this story! As recently as five months ago. "Remember when my friend was in the elevator with Lionel Ritchie?"
Sounds like mom's getting a call this weekend.
don't you dare take that away from her
it's such a fun story.
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I think I remember my mother telling me a version of this story too actually, only instead of Lionel Ritchie it was Werner Herzog, and instead of saying "Down, Lady" he turned to my mother and said "Do fish have dreams?" Then the next day he sent her a handwritten note and a crate of dancing chickens.