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Spike Lee directs this sizzling satire on race and racism within the modern media world. Starring Damon Wayons (Major Payne, TV's In Living Color) and Jada Pinkett-Smith (Set It Off, Scream 2, The Nutty Professor).
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Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" should go down in history as one of the most important films about race vs. social status and the misconceptions and stereotypes that surround them, as well as being a magnificent movie about popular culture and the almighty dollar.
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Amazon.com: Bamboozled (New Line Platinum Series): Damon Wayans,
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Bamboozled - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Talking about his new film Bamboozled, which satirizes racist media through a hugely popular TV minstrel show, Spike Lee is as enthusiastic as I've seen him. ... It just can't be her brains, it has to be something else." We felt it was important to have somebody who's as attractive as Jada give those views.
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Spike Lee's Bamboozled elicits a number of responses -- none of them mild. ... [IMPORTANT NOTE: The views and opinions expressed on this list are solely those of the authors and/or publications, and do not necessarily represent or reflect the official political positions of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).
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Often the media impression of his career makes it seem as though each new Spike Lee release can be used as an ersatz barometer for the state of American race relations. But just as his films do not flinch from controversy, neither does Lee, which brings us to his latest feature, Bamboozled.
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