Maybe This Time Spike Should Do The Right Thing

Spike Lee is so adamantly committed to exploring the African-American experience that he often is accused of being anti-white.

As he has said more than once, however, he just doesn’t give much thought to white America. Besides, when it comes to a certain segment of the population, he’s distinctly color-blind.

We know that because Lee has barred black movie critic Armond White from screenings of his newest film, “Get On the Bus.” Lee apparently doesn’t like the fact that White, who reviews for GQ magazine, hasn’t liked anything he has directed since “Do the Right Thing.”

“His decision is especially troublesome on this film,” says White, “since it’s supposed to be about black solidarity.”

Loose talk

America’s best-known ex-houseguest, Kato Kaelin, on his disappearing career (in People magazine): “Hollywood has been somewhat tough on me. “

One day he’ll be known as The Croaking Cowboy

Gene Autry turns 89 today.

She may never show up, but her intentions are good

Partners Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, Elle Macpherson and Naomi Campbell seldom eat at their New York Fashion Cafe, but Campbell promises to do so at the newly opened London spot. “There’s a corner spot that I can call my table,” she said.

He used a bottle of Cristal to wash down the grits

Robin Leach, of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” fame, recently made a stop in Akron, Ohio. After tasting his first local delicacy - a sauerkraut ball made of pork loin, ham and sauerkraut, breaded and deep fried - he turned food critic. “It’s very, ah, Akron,” he said.

Note to Martha: When you get a chance, get therapy

In the midst of a noon interview with a writer from McCall’s magazine, Martha Stewart noted that she has been up for eight hours - writing memos, reading papers, packing, working out (at 5:30 a.m.), appearing on “Today,” refinancing her mortgages, consulting on a new line of towels and visiting the offices of Martha Stewart Living.

Hey, you don’t hear Christie Brinkley complaining!

Lost in all the media fury over being cut out of the John F. Kennedy-Carolyn Bessette wedding is New York Post columnist’s Neal Travis chastisement of other celebs who have blamed the media for invading their privacy and ruining their weddings. According to Travis, all one needs is discretion and an “unconflicted need to really want privacy.”

Sample tabloid headline: Ex-Beatle exposes the Dead

Paul McCartney directed a nine-minute film about the Grateful Dead based on some photos that his wife, Linda, took of the band in the 1960s. “If Andy Warhol can film the Empire State Building for three hours,” the ex-Beatle said, “I figure I can do something with four rolls of film.”

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