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Two decades after it opened in a sweltering mid-summer, Spike Lee's masterpiece will still bring you out in a sweat Feel the heat a John Turturro and Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing.

It was surely hot in the summer of 1989 when filmmaker Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" hit theaters - right around the time that Alrich Lynch, then a teen lifeguard at a South Florida public pool, learned that doing the right thing was more than just a movie title.

It's the 20th anniversary of that thought provoking Spike Lee movie, "Do The Right Thing," and the Atlanta Film Festival prepares to pay tribute.

Caption: Spike Lee and Bill Lee, Father and Son attend the 20th Anniversary Screening of 'Do The Right Thing' at Directors Guild of America Theater New York City, USA .... LEE'S TEARS AT PARIS JACKSON'S 'KILLER' SPEECH Director SPIKE LEE lost his composure during MICHAEL JACKSON's Los Angeles memorial on Tuesday when the King of Pop's daughter ...

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Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America's window. At the climax of Spike Lee's 1989 drama "Do the Right Thing," the eternal battle between love and hate teeters on a razor's edge.

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the film Do the Right Thing . When we caught up with director Spike Lee at the movie's DVD-release party this week, we wondered if he missed anything about New York back then.

Long before Mike Holmes coined the phrase 'make it right', in a much different context, Spike Lee turned the phrase 'Do the right thing' into his very own catchphrase.

On Monday night at the Directors Guild of America theater in midtown Manhattan, Spike Lee , Samuel L. Jackson and other stars from "Do the Right Thing" gathered to celebrate the seminal film's 20th anniversary .

"White people still ask me why Mookie threw the can through the window," director Spike Lee says.

THIS WEEK marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most influential movies of all time - Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing." It's being commemorated with a special-edition DVD, featuring four hours of documentary material with contributions from the original cast and crew .

Spike Lee's 20-year-old masterpiece depicts the racial tensions in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, but the film has aged well.

Published: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:27 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:26 a.m. NEW YORK Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America's window.

DVD Release Date: June 30 Director/Writer: Spike Lee Cinematographer: Ernest Dickerson Starring: Lee, Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis Studio / Run Time: Universal, 120 mins.

When " Do the Right Thing " premiered in 1989, it touched off a wave of controversy and critical adulation, earning accolades at the Cannes Film Festival , an Oscar nominations and sparking a slew of predictions that it would foment violence, which turned out to be false.

Areissue of an incendiary drama, an actor's possible swan song and an acerbic HBO series come to DVD this week.

It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Twentieth Anniversary and DVD Release for 'Do the Right Thing' DGA Theatre. June 29, 2009.

NEW YORK, NY June 30, 2009 a 'Twenty years ago, director Spike Lee debuted his independent feature film "Do The Right Thing". The plot takes place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Styuvesant on the hottest day of the year, in 1989.

Rated R THE SCOOP: On the hottest day of summer in Brooklyn, a predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood erupts into chaos as long-simmering bigotry take over.