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When " Do the Right Thing " premiered in 1989, it touched off a wave of controversy and critical adulation, earning accolades at the Cannes Film Festival , an Oscar nominations and sparking a slew of predictions that it would foment violence, which turned out to be false.

It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Spike Lee at the "Do The Right Thing" 20th anniversary celebration in New York on Monday NEW YORK - It took the great Samuel L. Jackson reassuming his Senor Love Daddy moniker for just a moment on the red carpet to capture the vibe in the air for the 20th anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" on Monday night .

Rosie Perez, left, and Spike Lee, who also directed, star in "Do the Right Thing." 4 stars = Outstanding Ratings explained Two decades ago, director Spike Lee managed to capture lightning in a bottle with his third major studio release "Do the Right Thing." Always bigger on ideas than he is on subtlety, Lee refused to back down from an ...

Published: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:27 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:26 a.m. NEW YORK Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America's window.

As with holiday weeks in general, this is usually a drab time for DVD releases, given the competition from floats, backyard munitions and Bloody Marys.

Areissue of an incendiary drama, an actor's possible swan song and an acerbic HBO series come to DVD this week.

Director Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" leads the small list of new titles arriving on Blu-ray this week.

Twentieth Anniversary and DVD Release for 'Do the Right Thing' DGA Theatre. June 29, 2009.

Rated R THE SCOOP: On the hottest day of summer in Brooklyn, a predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood erupts into chaos as long-simmering bigotry take over.

Ossie Davis as Da Mayor and Spike Lee as Mookie in "Do the Right Thing." Do the Right Thing Roger Ebert / May 27, 2001 I have been given only a few filmgoing experiences in my life to equal the first time I saw ``Do the Right Thing.'' Most movies remain up there on the screen.

WITH Hollywood actress Angela Bassett gracing the cover of here! this week, it got us thinking about some of our best-loved black films.

On Monday night at the Directors Guild of America theater in midtown Manhattan, Spike Lee , Samuel L. Jackson and other stars from "Do the Right Thing" gathered to celebrate the seminal film's 20th anniversary .

Peter Howell F ight the power! Kapow! Spike Lee's masterful Do the Right Thing is constantly in your face, from its dancing pugilist opener to the one-two punch of Radio Raheem's "Love/Hate" brass knuckles to the torrent of abuse hurled by the film's hot-and-bothered races.

'Do the Right Thing" - the Spike Lee joint that kick-started some tough conversations about racism and prompted boomboxes across the country to blast "Fight the Power" - celebrates its 20th anniversary this week with new releases on DVD and Blu-ray, both of which feature digitally remastered versions of the film, perfectly polished for the new ...

PICK OF THE WEEK "Do the Right Thing" : Still Spike Lee's most essential film, "Do the Right Thing" turns 20 this year, and this birthday reissue - including a Blu-ray edition promising to do justice to Lee's vibrant colors - is a great opportunity to find out if its ambiguous, debate-stirring finale looks different with a black man in the White ...

U.S. actor Johnny Depp arrives for the European premiere of "Public Enemies" at a cinema in central London, Monday, June 29, 2009.

Samuel L. Jackson , Spike Lee , and more stars open up to ET in New York City about Michael Jackson .

Eric D. Snider , Jun 29, 2009 In the late Middle Ages, a common type of popular theater was the "morality play," a simple, relatively short drama intended to teach the audience good morals.

It's hard to believe that it's already been 20 years since the summer of '89 when Do the Right Thing made such a splash upon arriving in theaters.