Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie’s Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line By Will Leitch, vulture.com Return­ing to Brook­lyn—a very dif­fer­ent Brook­lyn—with Red Hook Sum­mer, the out­spo­ken film­mak­er talks with Will Leitch about the timid­i­ty of Hol­ly­wood, reality-TV min­strel­sy, and what it’s like to have inspired the pres­i­dent… I cannot imagine what it must be like for you to walk around Cobble Hill now and see wheat-germ places and Pilates. Spike Lee: “That does not bother me. What bothers me is that these kids do not know the street games we grew up with. Stoop ball, stickball, cocolevio, crack the top, down the sewer, Johnny on the pony, red light green light one-two-three. These are New York City street games.”

Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie’s Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line
By Will Leitch, vulture.com

Return­ing to Brook­lyn—a very dif­fer­ent Brook­lyn—with Red Hook Sum­mer, the out­spo­ken film­mak­er talks with Will Leitch about the timid­i­ty of Hol­ly­wood, reality-TV min­strel­sy, and what it’s like to have inspired the pres­i­dent…

I cannot imagine what it must be like for you to walk around Cobble Hill now and see wheat-germ places and Pilates.

Spike Lee: “That does not bother me. What bothers me is that these kids do not know the street games we grew up with. Stoop ball, stickball, cocolevio, crack the top, down the sewer, Johnny on the pony, red light green light one-two-three. These are New York City street games.”

Jul. 9 2012
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