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One recent Wednesday was a "once-in-a-lifetime" day for Rider University students.

When NYU writer-in-residence James McBride introduced renowned director and Tisch alumnus and Spike Lee at an event yesterday afternoon, he confused a few minor bits of information, including the date Lee graduated from Tisch School of Arts.

Spike Lee's always been outspoken -- bashing fellow filmmakers for ignoring black contributions at Iwo Jima or for being too white to direct Malcolm X . Sometimes he has a point, sometimes he's just popping off.

"Song Yet Sung," by James McBride, right, a semi-fictional account of slavery in Eastern Maryland during the 1850s, is the second selection of One Maryland, One Book, a statewide reading program sponsored by the Maryland Center for the Book, part of the Maryland Humanities Council.

Cinema Tuesdays Reviews grew as an extension of the popular Cinema Tuesdays film series.

Author James McBride is scheduled to speak and read from his book Song Yet Sung on Oct.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Some might think "The Color of Water" is a unusual title for a book, especially when its subtitle is "A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother." But James McBride , the author of this memoir that became a two-year fixture on the New York Times bestseller list, is by no one's definition a usual man.

Award-winning director Spike Lee and a film crew spent Wednesday at the childhood home of Michael Jackson filming a documentary about the King of Pop.

The New York City medical examiner's office says DJ AM's death was accidental. It blames a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and cocaine.

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In fact, he says, he was on his way to Washington to research a book on the death of Abraham Lincoln when he impulsively decided to turn left on U.S. 50 instead of right.

I could hear it now. "What? ' Miracle at St. Anna ' isn't worse than ' She Hate Me .'" Um, yes it is.

Perry has rode the house-dress of his most popular character, Aunt Madea - a chain-smoking, gun-toting and cussing doppelganger of everybody's favorite auntie - to become a phenomenon.

Out of pain and destruction can come hope and celebration. That's the genesis of jazz trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard's new album, "Choices." Featuring spoken-word segments by educator/activist Dr.

Spike Lee is among the busiest men in show business, and you might not even know it.

A decade in the making, Quentin Tarantino's World War II fantasy "Inglourious Basterds" conclusively answers questions that have hounded the filmmaker in recent years.

Hollywood's two most indulged enfant terrible filmmakers have now made the worst two World War II movies of this millennium.

You've seen him as Enrico in Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna" and as Uncle Diego on TV's "My Name is Earl," but it's his trademark one-man show performance that writer and actor John Leguizamo is bringing to Actors Theatre of Louisville Friday and Saturday.

You've seen him as Enrico in Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna" and as Uncle Diego on TV's "My Name is Earl," but it's his trademark one-man show performance that writer and actor John Leguizamo is bringing to Actors Theatre of Louisville Friday and Saturday.

Share + Jul 25, 2009 1:57 pm US/Eastern CARACAS, Venezuela 1 of 1 Film director Spike Lee arrives at the U.K. premiere of his film "Miracle At St Anna" at Leicester Square in London, on Oct.