Spike Lee answered questions in a sometimes fiesty exchange with reporters at the Landmark Room at the Fox Theater in Atlanta on July 11. Lee was on hand for the the Atlanta Film Festival’s celebration of the 20th anniversary of Do the Right Thing, which was shown at the Fox as part of the Coca-Cola Film Festival.
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(Photo and text by Joeff Davis)
1) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2) Atlanta Film Festival celebrates the 20th anniversary of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing at the Fox Theatre.
3) Calu leads top-notch burlesquepades at Smith’s Olde Bar.
4) Talbot Tagora and Abe Vigoda play 529.
5) R. Land presents Zaat at Plaza Theatre.
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In 2007, Atlanta Councilman C.T. Martin unsuccessfully proposed a much-debated law against saggy britches. Now he offers a resolution praising Morehouse College for setting a good example.
C.T. Martin
“The debate garnered international attention and discussion among youth and adults and has led to several states, municipalities and educational institutions to encourage their youth to dress appropriately.”
— C.T. Martin, from his current resolution
“I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants.”
— President-elect Barack Obama, in an MTV interview
“The use of profanity and the wearing of exposed underwear are not a part of the image of Morehouse College, its students, nor its distinguished alumni, which include actor Samuel Jackson and director Spike Lee…”
— C.T. Martin, from his current resolution
“I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!”
— Samuel L. Jackson, from Snakes on a Plane, 2006
