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Why We Love and Hate Hollywood

Some of My Best Friends Are

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Blazing Saddles

Do the Right Thing comes out in 1989. The film turns on the intense race relations of 1980s New York. It culminates in a police killing and all the racism that is seething beneath the surface. For me, the issues in this film could not have been more relevant, more personal, more connected.

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