Volume 36, Number 14 · September 28, 1989
The Pizza Is Burning!
By Murray Kempton
Do the Right Thing
a movie by Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
by Spike Lee, with Lisa Jones
Simon and Schuster/Fireside, 297 pp., $10.95
Do the Right Thing is the newest entry in the expanding catalog of films inspired by Italian-American family virtues. If it is less engaging than Moonstruck, it can be commended for the earnestness of its effort to convey the suffering and final defeat of a rational man by an irrational world.
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