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Thursday 3 December 2015
Spike Lee rips Rahm Emanuel on ‘Chi-Raq’ orange carpet
RACHELLE BLIDNER city’s election had passed.
Emanuel won a second
JOHN CARUCCI term earlier this year. The
shooting took place in
Associated Press 2014.
“It’s very tragic that infor-
NEW YORK (AP) — Kind mation was suppressed for
an election cycle,” Cusack
words were in short supply said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who
for Chicago Mayor Rahm walked the film’s orange
carpet before the pre-
Emanuel at the premiere miere, said the power of
the satire can send a mes-
of Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” sage to young people
about gun violence more
on Tuesday night. than Tuesday’s announce-
ment in Chicago.
Emanuel fired the city’s The movie’s kickoff segued
into the anti-gun violence
police superintendent march. Lee, Sharpton and
members of the film’s cast
Tuesday after tensions joined about 150 people
who marched from a
flared over the release of a midtown theater to Times
Square. Actor John Turtur-
graphic video that showed ro, who isn’t in the movie,
marched with them.
a black teenager, Laquan Activists wore orange
beanies with pompom
McDonald, being shot 16 tops. The color was cho-
sen from the vests hunters
times by a white police of- wear as a “don’t shoot me
sign,” said Cleo Pendleton,
ficer. Lee predicted at the whose 15-year-old daugh-
ter, Hadiya Pendleton, was
premiere, held before he killed in Chicago in 2013.
Lee even wore orange-
and cast members partici- framed glasses.
Actor Nick Cannon, who
pated in an anti-gun vio- portrays Chi-Raq in the
movie, said the march was
lence march, that “some being held “for the right
reasons.”
more heads are gonna “We’ve got to get out here John Cusack, left, and Spike Lee attend the premiere of “Chi-Raq” at the Ziegfeld Theatre on
and express our pain the
roll.” The police superin- right way,” he said. Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, a
tendent “is not going to be Catholic priest and social is the basis for Cusack’s urged the crowd to pledge
activist from Chicago who character in the movie, to end gun violence.q
the only one,” Lee said.
Lee’s satire is based on the
ancient Greek play “Ly-
sistrata” by Aristophanes.
This modern adaptation
is about the murder of a
child hit by a stray bullet in
Chicago’s South Side, and
the group of women that
organize a unique way of
dealing with the ongoing
violence; they hold back
sex. Chicago actor John
Cusack, who appears in
the film, said the shoot-
ings and killings in Chi-
cago each year are “un-
acceptable,” and cited
political motives. He said
the police officer involved
in shooting the 17-year-old
wasn’t charged or the su-
perintendent fired until the
Football leads NBC network
to first weekly win of season
DAVID BAUDER game between Chicago
AP Television Writer and Green Bay drew 27.8
NEW YORK (AP) — Thanks- million viewers, the biggest
giving week left NBC with, audience for a night game
well, a lot to be thankful on the holiday in the de-
for. cade NBC has been show-
Behind two sizzling football ing them.
games, the network won With Denver toppling pre-
the Nielsen company’s viously unbeaten New Eng-
weekly prime-time crown land on Sunday night, the
for the first time this televi- game was seen by more
sion season. NBC frequent- than 25 million people,
ly won during the summer, Nielsen said.
but the last time it won dur- Nielsen does not imme-
ing the traditional TV sea- diately have an estimate
son came on Super Bowl of how many people
week last winter, Nielsen watched the Macy’s
said. Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Thanksgiving night on NBC Thanksgiving.q
