[UPDATE, 8/22/06: For the latest, up-to-date commentary on Spike Lee’s film — which I was in — please visit my homepage or my Katrina category.]
The first half of Spike Lee’s documentary on Hurricane Katrina debuted tonight in New Orleans. It airs on HBO next Monday and Tuesday.
Lee interviewed me for over an hour, but I have no idea if I’m in the film or not. As I wrote previously, “to be honest, if I were going to tell the story that he’s trying to tell in four hours, I don’t know that I’d include me.” That said, if I am in the film, I suspect that I’d be in either “Act I” or “Act II” — i.e. the two parts that debuted tonight — judging from the summary in this article:
Act I covers the storm’s arrival; Act II chronicles the failure of the emergency response; Act III follows an abandoned community coming to grips with all that it lost, and Act IV addresses the halting, haphazard effort to begin again.
If anybody is perchance stopping by this blog after watching the film at the New Orleans Arena tonight, please comment and let us know a) what you thought of it, and b) whether I’m in it! Not necessarily in that order of importance, I might add. :)
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Categories: Hurricane Katrina
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August 16th, 2006 at 7:32:30 pm
I Hope Hope Hope you in the movie!
Tonight show here you come!
August 16th, 2006 at 7:35:28 pm
Ick, Leno? I’d rather be on Letterman or the Daily Show. ;)
August 16th, 2006 at 8:14:50 pm
well I guess when you famous and all you can be picky!
That’s Hot :)
August 17th, 2006 at 7:06:16 am
Brendan,
Why didn’t you ask him if you were being referenced in the film?????????????
August 17th, 2006 at 8:37:11 am
because no one ever knows until the final cut is done approved, scored, sound edited and on the air what exactly the final product is going to be…
August 17th, 2006 at 1:17:07 pm
Cool. I plan to watch it. I am looking for reviews by people who saw the premiere. Spike Lee is my favorite director so I am sure I will enjoy it.
August 21st, 2006 at 11:22:57 pm
It was the hardest 2 hours of TV I have ever watched. But it was totally honest and well made.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:04:19 pm
What up