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“We had my birthday party in L.A. at this club called Funky Reggae. There was this girl dancing like mad on a speaker. I said, ‘Will you please get down before you break your neck and I get sued?’ She cursed me out. I never heard a voice like that. I said, ‘What’s your name?’ She said, ‘Rosie Perez.’ That’s where I got the idea that Mookie should have a Puerto Rican girlfriend.” - Spike Lee looks back on Do the Right Thing, the in-movie campaign against Ed Koch, and getting overlooked because of “Driving Miss Motherfucking Daisy.” In another segment, he relates Scorsese’s Oscar for The Departed to a “makeup call in basketball.” (New York Magazine)

— Related: The woefully missed Miss Perez will follow up an appearance in Pineapple Express by joining Geena Davis for the CBS drama Exit 19.

— Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) is developing the psychological thriller Riverview Towers for AMC - another series (after critical hit Mad Men) passed on by HBO. (HR)

— Why you should buy the There Will Be Blood single disc DVD and skip the double disc special edition. (via Row Three)

— Jeffrey Wells rounds up the speculation surrounding Steven Soderbergh and his Che Guevera double dips starring Benicio Del Toro - The Argentine, and Guerilla.

— The Weinstein Brothers need another controversy like they need two pairs of skinny jeans: Nikke Finke diagrams the lead-up to the Project Runway defection from Bravo to Lifetime.

— Flickr’d: Steve Zisso and company in The Lego Aquatic. (via Kottke)

tedzee | Permalink | April 8 2008 | Comments (View)