Monday, August 21, 2006

Spike Lee's Katrina Documentary


I really wish I had HBO so I could watch Spike Lee's Katrina documentary, "When the Levees Broke" on TV tonight and tomorrow night.

Here is an excerpt from a very positive review:

Among the familiar figures giving testimony: New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, personable and passionate even when he seems slightly out of his depth (and very funny when he describes taking a shower aboard Air Force One); entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte, who persuasively argues the federal government was slow to respond to New Orleans' plight because of the city's unimportant (i.e., mostly poor and black) citizenry; New Orleans-born musician Wynton Marsalis, who offers pithy history lessons about the city's racial and musical heritages; and actor Sean Penn, who volunteered for rescue missions in flooded neighborhoods, but concedes he waded through water up to his chest only after a local clergymen did so first.
(If any of you have HBO and want to tape it I will love you forever.....)

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