Spike Pulls Plug on Dekalb HQ
It’s official: Spike Lee has moved his 40 Acres and a Mule production company out of its long-time headquarters at 124 Dekalb Avenue. A reader noticed movers coming and going last week and the drive-by this morning confirmed that the company’s big red flag had been taken down. A call to 40 Acres a few…
It’s official: Spike Lee has moved his 40 Acres and a Mule production company out of its long-time headquarters at 124 Dekalb Avenue. A reader noticed movers coming and going last week and the drive-by this morning confirmed that the company’s big red flag had been taken down. A call to 40 Acres a few minutes ago revealed that the company has consolidated its activities into one location. And, luckily, it’s not on the Upper East Side, where Lee decamped several years ago with his family. It’s just a block away at 76 South Elliott Place.
Spike’s Gone But 40 Acres and a Mule Lingers On [Brownstoner] GMAP
Um, 11:29, Michael Mann made The Insider. And the movie I believe you’re referring to is “The 25th Hour.” Clearly a huge fan. Anywayz….
Spike, I think, should make more documentaries. The Katrina doc he made for HBO was stunning. His narrative films (with a couple exceptions) have been sub par since DTRT.
I thought Spike Lee DID move to the Upper West Side. A brownstone. I don’t think it’s the Upper East Side.
To the guy who said:
“as a public figure who makes his rep and his living from his statements and actions, he has some responsibility, to his cause at least, to do as he says or explain to his audience why he decided to alter his actions.”
Spike Lee is an artist. A political one, sure, but as an artist he answers to nobody nor should he. Get over yourself. White artists are not required to pander politically to anybody, why should he? Why limit his creativity that way?
If it weren’t for the ridiculous pressures put on black artists by the black community, more of the successful black artists in film and music would probably choose to stay in Brooklyn instead of leave. But as we see from some of these comments if Spike had stayed he would have been confronted on the sidewalk on a daily basis by people making sure he’s “keepin’ it real”.
To: 12:24
No one’s forcing you to read these comments. And I’m pretty sure the rest of us could live if you did ignore this post.
12:24:
I only know what I read in the Times and New York Magazine, for which the spouse happily posed for photographs, showing off the family town house.
11:54, he owned 180 Washington Park. He sold it in 1999 for $800,000.
The house next door 181 Washington Park went for $3million last summer.
Nosey ass peopl! so what he moved uptown… who cares what his wife thinks.
I’m thinking TMZ is posting comments and you busy bodies are feeding them gossip.
Get off his schlong!
i always thought his move was an homage to Woody Allen.
12:14: No. But neither is Bill Cosby, and he lives nearby.
12:16: Huge. For those in the know, almost as big as the difference between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
“Really, what’s the difference?”
Guess you don’t spend too much time in either hood to notice the huge differences (above 72nd on the UWS, though).