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UGA: An Independent Look
10 Years in Retrospect
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The Red and Black • Thursday, May 10, 1990 • 5
A&E
Yo — do the right thing: go see Spike Lee do his thing
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Spike Lee: Hey, you've gotta hear him. After all, these are
your school daze. So just do it tonight at the Coliseum.
By JOHN DONNELLY
Contributing Writer
Before you go hear Spike Lee
speak Thursday night at the Col
iseum, it might help to take Borne
cultural baggage with you.
An unusual phenomenon, Lee is
a filmmaker who, thanks to
shrewd marketing as well as unde
niable talent, has become a house
hold name since his career began
only four years ago.
Since then Lee has written, di
rected and co-starred in three fea
ture films, published books about
the making of each film, directed
and appeared in television com
mercials and is currently doing a
lecture tour of college campuses.
As a graduate film student at
NYU, Lee made “Joe’s Bed-Stuy:
We Cut Heads,” a 60-minute
drama about a Brooklyn neighbor
hood barber caught up in a crime
ring/numbers racket. While “Joe’s
Bed-Stuy” won an Academy award
for best student film, in no way did
it indicate the talent that would
later evolve.
After graduation, Lee raised
$178,000 to make the 1986 film,
“She’s Gotta Have It,” a comedy
about a young New Yorker juggling
three very different boyfriends.
Shot in black and white without
big names, the film played mostly
in major-city art houses. Critics
flipped. A certain hipness that at
tracted a decent audience, decent
enough to make $8 million and get
a Hollywood studio to finance Lee’s
next project.
His second feature, “School
Daze," satirized small-minded stu
dents at a private black college.
While this film didn’t go over very
well, Lee proved he could handle a
big, professional production.
He took on a bigger one with last
year’s “Do The Right Thing," and
caused quite a commotion Media
attention focused on the film’s ra
cial violence and ambiguous
ending, which refuses to take a def
inite position on violence as a solu
tion. However, the beauty of “Do
The Right Thing’ is not in the mes
sage, but in its basic cinematic el
ements. The acting, the script (as
dramatic-comedy, not statement),
the music and the sets all create a
rich, dynamic style.
It's safe to say that Lee is the
most important mainstream
filmmaker right now. The progres
sion from “Joe's Bed-Stuy” snows
his gift is in surrounding himself
with a talented crew rather than
personal artistry, not taking any
thing away from his acting, <u-
recting or scriptwriting.
Lee doesn’t seem content, how
ever, with making entertaining
movies. The artist in him and, per
haps, the ego, wants to make the
viewer “wake up’ to complex racial
issues as well as to the cinema’s
powerful ability to shape attitudes.
This is where Lee has become a ce
lebrity of pop star status and also
where he becomes problematic.
He seems to embrace a radical
philosophy, but his films are slick
and commercial. In “Do the Right
Thing,” he shows an ugly truth
when his character, Mookie, re
fuses responsibility for his son.
This is undermined by a highly ex-
ressive love scene that is seen ear-
•r.
Lee wants to expose the myths of
filmmaking, yet he sells shoes on
T.V.
The sole fact that his films are
from an African-American perspec
tive and are successful has no
doubt done something to “uplift the
race.” Now he’s touring college
campuses not only as a celebrity-
artist but also as a spokesman for
the black community.
Curiously enigmatic and sur
rounded by controversy, one
thing’s for sure: Spike Lee takes
this latter role very seriously.
Voice of Howard is loud and clear
By C0LEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
The renowned artist Reverend
Howard Finster charmed a ca
pacity crowd with his ofF-the-wall
tales and eccentric personality
Monday at a lecture in the Visual
Arts building sponsored by the Ce
ramic Student Association.
Currently residing in Summer
ville, Ga., Finster was once a stu
dent here at the University and
said he comes back to Athens every
four years to meet all of the up and
coming new artists. His colorful
paintings feature complex, intri
cate detailing and exaggerated por
traits of people and animals.
One of Finster’s more inter
esting works is a Cadillac he re
ceived from Wake Forest
University in North Carolina. The
car is painted white and covered
with numerous drawings of vivid
faces crowded together.
“I had to stop driving that thing
around because I was scared some
body would have an accident
looking at it. I went to the lum
beryard and near about everybody
came out to stare at it and all I
wanted was a piece of plywood,”
Finster said.
Another remarkable piece is a
wooden sculpture over six feet tall
covered with “35,000 quarter inch
squares of mirror” hand-cut by
Finster himself.
Finster combined a slide show of
some of his works with a generous
helping of his brand of down-home
truths. Finster made comments on
a variety of subjects including love,
atomic bombs and world peace.
“I believe marriage is L-O-V-E
and if you really love each other
you won’t fight at the breakfast
table over how your gravy ain’t
done right," Finster said.
He was also very outspoken
about the fact that he claims to re
ceive “visions from the Lord” about
his art and his “mission.”
Finster said that his duty is to
“carry the weight of the world” and
to bring his “solution for world
peace" to light. One of Finster’s
paintings features a large broken
egg as its centerpiece. He said this
symbolizes “the early existence of
the atomic bomb” and that nuclear
weapons “should be left alone until
we know how to handle them.”
‘They’re like eggs — when
they’re broken open all the king’s
horses and all the king’s men won’t
be able to put them back together
again. If you don’t believe me — go
home and break an egg,” he said.
The Paradise Garden is another
labor Finster said he undertook in
order to better serve God. Slides
showed the garden as a menagerie
of colored glass, wire, buildings,
plants and sculpture that combine
into something resembling an or
ganized and well-planned junk
Hallelujah: The Rev. Howard
Finster makes a point
yard. Finster said he is a "lifetime
collector” and that he has incorpo
rated many years worth of assorted
odds and ends into his garden.
‘The garden is for the people.
Folks send me things to mold into
the walls in the garden. One boy
sent me his tonsils so I put them
right in,” Finster said.
Finster said the message he
wants to convey to the people of the
world through his works and
speeches is to stay on the right reli
gious path and to love each other.
“My intention is to keep the
world from being so mean so that
the Lord will save our planet,”
Finster said.
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Thursday, May 10, 1990
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