Movies
August, 1989
Spike Lee's daring, deeply personal Do the Right Thing (Universal) could be seen as a comedy aimed at bolstering black pride. It could also be viewed as an incitement to riot. Lee, jauntily sporting four hats as writer, producer, director and star, lets you have it both ways, because that's the way he wants his challenging third film--his best by a city mile--to be. Most of it happens in or around an Italian pizza parlor on a street corner in Brooklyn's volatile Bed-ford-Stuyvesant section. But...
