Spike Lee on Race and the Idiot Box
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled takes its title from the late Malcolm X’s exhortation to his followers: “You’ve been hoodwinked. You’ve been had. You’ve been took. You’ve been led astray, led amok. You’ve been bamboozled.” Mr. Lee also credits Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg’s A Face in the Crowd (1957), and Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Network Read More
