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Spike Lee's 'Red Hook Summer' gets the hook

When Spike Lee threw a small fit last night during his Q&A after the premiere of Red Hook Summer, is it because he was angry at Hollywood — or because he sensed that the audience didn't really like his movie, and he was Spike Lee's return to rough-and-ready independent filmmaking is not the invigorating creative [...]

Red Hook Summer

Explaining his controversial statement made during a Q and A session at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Lee says, 'I'm not here to condemn Hollywood, even if it may sound like that.' By LEIGH HORNBECK, Staff writer State Troopers Jeremy Merlendahl, left, and Chris Baldner, from the Rhinebeck barracks, inspect the car involved in an [...]