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Spike Lee screens film that includes oil spill

Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:05 PM EDT
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Associated Press

FILE-This July 10, 2010 file photo shows director Spike Lee entering Cipriani's for the wedding of Carmelo Anthony and LaLa Vasquez, in New York. Lee has screened his new four-hour documentary on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him. The director showed "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise" at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego on Saturday July 31, 2010. It airs in August on HBO. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano,File)

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SAN DIEGO — Spike Lee screened some of his new HBO documentary that includes a look at the massive BP Gulf oil spill and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him.

The director showed about 90 minutes of "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise" at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego on Saturday. The film is a follow-up to "When the Levees Broke" about the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

It picks up with the New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl victory and chronicles the impact of the spill on people who have yet to fully recover from Katrina.

When asked if BP cooperated he said, "Nobody was speaking to me from BP." A call to the BP press office wasn't immediately returned.

He also called on President Barack Obama to "bring the hammer" on BP and make the company pay.

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jrone

Old spike shows up fast at a disaster doesn't he? Spike says they should "bring the hammer" huh? That should be his next disaster flick- "the mc hammer story- a requiem in one part"

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Reply#1 - Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:42 PM EDT
jrone

And why would anyone from bp talk to him? Under any circumstances? A has been movie director? What productive thing is he going to add to the situation? Know how to stop the leak spike? Know anything about deep water drilling?

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Reply#2 - Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:21 PM EDT
Head-Negro

A has been movie director?

I guess its better to be a has been,,, then a never been

it will air on HBO,, enjoy the documentary

    #2.1 - Sun Aug 1, 2010 12:10 AM EDT
    jrone

    No need to watch it. He will just rehash Katrina stuff. Fill in the word Oil spill for hurricane and bp for bush. That'll do it. So now need for anyone to watch spikes riveting little movie.

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    #2.2 - Sun Aug 1, 2010 12:18 AM EDT
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    JohnRussell

    What's the racial angle that attracted Spike? Everything he does has a racial angle.

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    Reply#3 - Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:59 PM EDT
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