Open Thread: Do The Right Thing Edition
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later,…
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later, how much has changed and how much remains the same?
“ENY: my husband says the same thing. He’s like “Crooklyn” was pretty much my life growing up in BK. Why do I want to see it reflected in a movie?”
Yeah! At the time, I was like, “There are about 4-5 people like this on my block! I don’t need to go to a movie to experience this.” Again, that’s just me.
I’m more of an ass man.
On the pee topic. When my Goddaughter was out of diapers and for the most part completely potty trained one day out of nowhere she stops dead on the sidewalk starts crying “I have to go I have to go!!!” She’s panicky and so upset that she might wet herself. There were NO bathrooms around, we were walking from the subway and in a completely residential part. No shops. So yeah, I went between two cars with her. Poor thing was so embarrassed but what are you going to do? Let her pee in her pants?
I think it’s clear both Rosie Perez and Jamie Lee Curtis have great breasts. If it’s not, it should be.
Anyone notice something missing from the last two “ROTD” threads?
rf…about 6 of us PLUSAs had an impromptu get together at Mezcal restaurant on Atlantic Ave about 3 weeks ago on a Saturday. As we were sipping our margharitas, a man acrosss the street was taking a pee next to his car.
I’ll tell you one thing. My eyes pour over ever detail in that garden apartment they had!!
There are couple more thrown in but they are in Spanish and I can’t discern them. It’s almost as though Joe Cuba ‘raps’ a little over the song. But pretty much I’ll Never Go Back to Georgia are the only words.
There’s definitely something about dancing…bailar.
Re elimination communication: I agree that it’s totally bullshit (no pun intended) but c’mon, guys, you never took a leak between 2 parked cars or in a corner where 2 buildings meet? My guess is that the baby pee is a lot less stinky, plus it’s going down the sewer. Not a medium for Hep B transmission.
For slightly older kids, what are you going to do? It’s not like there are tons of public restrooms in NYC, and when they gotta go, they gotta go!
THL – ha – correction I meant English!!!!
ok am listening to it now – good one!