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Lee, Spike; Wiley, Ralph; X, Malcolm Autobiography of Malcolm X. Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir
New York, New York, U.S.A. Crown Pub 1997 060960029X / 9780609600290 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Very Good
Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.00. Tight spine - Bright pages. 328 pages. Illustrated with photos. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Best Seat in the House, Spike Lee's evocative and compelling basketball memoir, interweaves several journeys over a course of thirty years. The first is professional basketball's metamorphosis from a fringe sport whose championship games would air tape-delayed at 11:30 p.m., after the local news had already given the scores, to become the big-money sports spectacular it is today, filled with outrageously inflated salaries and egos. The other journey is that of Shelton Jackson Lee himself, who has gone from a skinny kid playing ball on the streets of Brooklyn, sneaking into Madison Square Garden to watch his beloved Knicks, to Morehouse College and NYU film school, to being a world-renowned film director and hoops fan. The book charts Spike's artistic journey from his first college film (Super 8), called Last Hustle in Brooklyn, and his gradual move down from the raucous, nosebleed blue seats just below the Garden's rafters, closer and closer to the on-court action until, in the year Malcolm X was released, Spike landed the coveted courtside seats he has today - the best seats in the house. From there, his blue-seat emotions, transplanted to within arm's reach of the action, have led to numerous confrontations with refs and opposing players - some of them public, like the notorious Reggie Miller incident - but most never before discussed. Along the way Spike takes readers on entertaining and provocative detours, including a one-on-one with that other film-directing, Brooklyn-born, Garden-inhabiting hoops fan, Woody Allen; reviews of sports movies (Spike has seen them all, and the results aren't pretty); an unusually candid and revelatory interview with Michael Jordan; and a stark assessment of the role of African-American athletes both in the big business of sports and in the broader culture.
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Lee, Spike; Wiley, Ralph; X, Malcolm Autobiography of Malcolm X. By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of Malcolm X
Hyperion Books 1992 1562829130 / 9781562829131 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine
Like-new condition - Appears unread. NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 314 pages. Illustrated with photos. Lee, as energetic a marketer as he is a director, regularly releases companion books to his films, and fans of the upcoming epic about Malcolm X will welcome this book, which contains the film script as well as reflections by Lee and other participants in the film. Though Wiley ( Why Black People Tend to Shout ) collaborates with Lee, the book is loosely edited--the selections, reading like transcribed interviews, show how quotable Lee is: ``This was the picture I was born to make,'' he declares, for example. Lee addresses issues ranging from Malcolm X's influence on him to his part in the controversy over Norman Jewison, who was originally to direct the film, to the evolution of the script, which was first written by James Baldwin. Lee reports on interviews with Malcolm's intimates, including his ``very sometimey'' widow, Betty Shabazz, and the imposing Minister Louis Farrakhan, who discusses Malcolm X's split with Nation of Islam. Lee also tells how he raised funds from black athletes and entertainers to complete the film when it went over the budget. Among other contributors are co-producer Monty Ross and star Denzel Washington.
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