I’ve really been looking forward to the new Spike Lee Hurricane Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke“. But just to show you how clueless I can be sometimes, I didn’t even realize it wasn’t going to theaters… it’s showing on HBO. I’m guessing the 4 hour length had something to do with that.
Yahoo News gives us this:
Herbert Freeman recalls his mother’s death at New Orleans Convention Center and the moment he had to leave her body there as he and other evacuees were taken out of the city. “Before he got on a bus he had a piece of paper, wrote his name, his cell number and her name and placed the paper between her fingers, her body,” Lee said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“How could this happen, in the supposedly the wealthiest, mightiest country in the world? Really, that’s the question,” Lee said.
That is the question indeed. A country that has BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars to wage war in another country… but had to get its celebrities to hold telathons and fund raisers in order to help its own people. There is something wrong with that picture.
The film airs the first half Monday night, with the second part on Thrusday night.
