Spike Lee targets Katrina for new film

[2pac Shakur]

Lee compared the New Orleans situation with the 1974 film “Chinatown,” which starts as a simple detective story set in 1933 Los Angeles but evolves into an intricate tale of high-level corruption and greed.

“People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn’t hanky-panky in the flooding,” Lee said of the impoverished New Orleans neighborhood that was hit especially hard by the flood.

“And what I thought about automatically was ‘Chinatown,’ the great film by Roman Polanski. The whole subplot of the whole thing is about water in Southern California and how it was not delivered to the people who needed it.”

Lee’s documentary will be produced by Time Warner’s HBO cable channel and he plans to have it ready for the one-year anniversary of Katrina.

Making 18 films in more than two decades, Lee has been a heat-seeking missile aimed at hot issues like police brutality, racism, black nationalism and interracial sex.

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I can't wait.

[SamTheEagle]

Interracial sex? What was the gist of that one?

Wasn't aware it was all that much of a hot issue anymore. Maybe it is among you old folk, I dunno.

[DW Simpson]

Bungle Fever