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Breaking Baz @Cannes: Spike Lee Croons Rodgers & Hammerstein On The Beach But Tunes Out As Talk Turns To Him Making A Movie Musical His Next Project
Spike Lee is eyeing a musical as his next movie project but refuses to sing about it, Baz Bamigboye writes after hitting the 'Highest 2 Lowest' party at Cannes.
The sound system at the Carlton Beach was blasting out James Brown’s “The Boss”while, incongruously, Spike Lee was engaged in a Rodgers and Hammerstein sing-along. Lee’s great movie Highest 2 Lowest opens with Matthew Libatique’s cameras taking in the Manhattan skyline as the city awakes. “The skyscrapers are the corn as high as an elephant’s eye,” says Lee, smiling as his longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown joins us on a couch.
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