‘I’m honoring these people’: Spike Lee’s Creative Sources at the Brooklyn Museum

The New York film-maker once boasted he ‘could fill the Brooklyn Museum’. With this exhibition, he nearly hasSpike Lee is telling me the story of how he had to convince Frank Sinatra to let him use his music for Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever. Apparently, Ol’ Blue Eyes was upset about one of the film-maker’s earlier movies, Do the Right Thing. In an unforgettable scene, a ruckus breaks out in Sal’s Pizzeria, the neighborhood restaurant where the film’s pro