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  1. "Do the Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition" on DVDRead the original story

    Tuesday Jul 7 | Nuvo.net

    ... the eye while insuring that the final act has the powerful emotional impact Lee desired. And what a cast: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, John Turturro, Rosie Perez, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, Samuel Jackson -- whew! What a ...

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  2. 'Do the Right Thing' celebrates 20th yearRead the original story

    Friday Jul 3 | The Honolulu Advertiser

    ... deleted and extended scenes, including a longer take of the final, rancorous exchange between Mookie and Sal (Danny Aiello). It's all good stuff. But on the whole, it doesn't quite match the quality of the numerous featurettes found on the second ...

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  3. UrbanEye Video: 'Do the Right Thing'

    Thursday Jul 2 | International Herald Tribune

    ... and critical adulation, earning accolades at the Cannes Film Festival , an Oscar nominations (for its star, Danny Aiello) and sparking a slew of predictions that it would foment violence, which turned out to be false. It also cemented Spike Lee 's ...

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  4. Lee, Jackson, and Perez at 'Do the Right Thing' AnniversaryRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Jul 1 | New York Magazine

    ... that can in to save my ass. You didn't want me to get beat.' He denies it. You ask him. He'll go crazy." - Danny Aiello - Joie Lee - Malcolm Lee What do you remember about Spike as a young director? "When I first met him, I thought he was 16 or 17 ...

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  5. Fox festival brings back classicsRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Jun 18 | Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    ... Morehouse grad Spike Lee . Some of the other actors from the film are also expected to attend. The film stars Danny Aiello , the late Ossie Davis , the legendary Ruby Dee and Atlanta's own Bill Nunn . The summer favorite is getting a bit of a late ...

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  6. New to DVD: Getting it rightRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Jul 2 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    ... who is quick to remind him of all the way he's falling down in his responsibilities. Mookie works for Sal (Danny Aiello), the crusty, but essentially decent owner of Sal's Famous Pizzeria, one of the few establishments still operating in the ...

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  7. New on DVD: "Do the Right Thing (20th Anniversary Edition)"

    Thursday Jul 2 | BurlingtonFreePress.com

    Rated R WHO: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Richard Edson, John Savage, Bill Nunn 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.

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  8. New on DVD: 'Do The Right Thing'

    Wednesday Jul 1 | USA Today

    ... thought to be racially inflammatory, the movie is, in fact, remarkably evenhanded. Lee clearly establishes that Danny Aiello 's Sal is a decent if short-fused small businessman who's spent 25 years busting his behind, but it's equally obvious that ...

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  9. Do the Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition

    Wednesday Jul 1 | Paste Magazine

    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.

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  10. Do the Right Thing

    Tuesday Jun 30 | Ultimate AV

    ... York. As the thermometer rises, so do tempers in the racially charged atmosphere. Local Italian pizza man Sal (Danny Aiello), proprietor of Sal's Famous, runs the restaurant with his two sons and employs Mookie (Spike Lee) as their delivery boy. ...

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  11. Spike Lee's gem Do the Right Thing' tops latest Blu-ray releases

    Tuesday Jun 30 | Clover Herald

    ... wave. Most of them do that by just sitting around and talking. Meanwhile, Mookie (Lee) delivers pizza for Sal (Danny Aiello), an Italian American, who has been running his corner restaurant in the same place for 25 years. Sal's racist son Pino (John ...

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  12. What 'Do The Right Thing' Means 20 Years LaterRead the original story

    Wednesday Jun 24 | National Public Radio

    Enlarge Spike Lee (left, with Danny Aiello as Sal) both directs and stars in Do The Right Thing. Lee's character, Mookie, works at Sal's Famous Pizzeria in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Universal 'Fight The Power' The famous ...

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  13. What You're Doing Tonight, 6/30Read the original story

    Tuesday Jun 30 | WNBC New York Channel 4

    ... about race clashes on the stoops of Brooklyn one sweaty 1980s summer, was Spike Lee 's breakthrough but it was Danny Aiello as the conflicted pizza slinger who gave the story its heart. He signs copies of the film's DVD at Barnes & Noble Lincoln ...

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  14. Hoboken fixture Danny Aiello is part of film history as Spike's...

    Monday Jun 29 | Millville News

    Oscar nominated actor Danny Aiello -- for his role in "Do the Right Thing" -- speaks about Hoboken and the city's International Film Festival in 2007 Hoboken fixture Danny Aiello is part of film history as Spike's Lee's "Do the Right Thing" marks its 20th anniversary today.

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  15. "Do the Right Thing" marks its...Read the original story w/Photo

    Monday Jun 29 | Kearny Journal

    Danny Aiello , owner of the Hoboken restaurant Tutti Pasta on Washington Street, is part of an extraordinary cast in the 1989 movie "Do the Right Thing," directed by Spike Lee .

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  16. Still right after 20 years

    Saturday Jun 27 | Denton Record-Chronicle

    ... Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. He stays mostly at Sal's, a pizzeria owned by an Italian-American (Danny Aiello) in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Tensions rise and tempers flare in this penetrating yet highly ...

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  17. DVD Review: "Do The Right Thing"Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday Jun 26 | News 14 Charlotte

    ... and pizza. It's also a tense time capsule of pre-gentrification, pre-Giuliani New York, with a never-better Danny Aiello as Sal, the proud owner of a pizzeria that's become a neighborhood institution as well as a lightning rod due to the exclusively ...

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  18. Do a New Thing: 20 Year's After Spike Lee's Groundbreaking Film on...Read the original story

    Thursday Jun 25 | Sojourners

    ... the spoilers that follow the original 1989 trailer below. Lee plays Mookie, a pizza delivery man for Sal (Danny Aiello), an Italian-American whose restaurant has been on the same corner since old days (i.e., before the neighborhood became mostly ...

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  19. 20 Years Since Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing'

    Wednesday Jun 24 | NPR

    Spike Lee (left, with Danny Aiello as Sal) both directs and stars in Do The Right Thing. Lee's character, Mookie, works at Sal's Famous Pizzeria in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Universal 'Fight The Power' The famous hip-hop song ...

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  20. Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing' has 20th anniversary

    Wednesday Jun 24 | Newsday.com

    ... riots after people saw it. Oh right. Didn't happen. Don't believe the hype. Spike Lee and the movie's cast -- Danny Aiello, Joie Lee , and Rosie Perez -- as well as Common, DMC, Branford Marsalis, Gloria Reuben and others will be on hand at the DGA ...

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