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Article: Quotes point to depth of Spike Lee masterpiece.(Time Out!)(Movie critic)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2007
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Byline: Dann Gire
First, a reader e-mail, then some film notes:
- Dear Dann: In your Oct. 4 story about Roger Ebert being honored at the Chicago International Film Festival, you referred to quotes from "Do the Right Thing." You didn't say what those quotes were and I wonder if you could send them to me. - Joanne Kapps
Dear Joanne: Ebert referred to two quotes that Spike Lee placed at the end of his 1989 racial drama masterpiece "Do the Right Thing," which Ebert first saw at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Ebert said the quotes were so powerful, he cried.
The first came from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who said: "Violence as a ...