ם “Think You Used Enough Dynamite There, Butch?”

Posted on February 20, 2007 at 9:54 pm

Remember when this happened? No? Go read it again. I’ll wait here.

Good? Good.

Hoo-ah!

ם Attica! Attica!

Posted on August 29, 2006 at 12:57 pm

So Deb and I are running errands yesterday, and we head up to the Astor Place K-Mart (she needed a sugar bowl). Just as we’re crossing the street over to the Astor cube (or The Alamo, if you’d rather), Deb tells me to look behind me. Thinking she’s just telling me to watch for traffic, I ignore the advice. So she grabs me and tells me a bit more forcefully, so I look back towards the giant glass Chase building and see some removable van bench seats just sitting out on the sidewalk with people sitting on them.

“Yeah, I guess that’s pretty funny,” I say.
“No douchebag, look who’s sitting on it.”

And there, hanging out on a van bench seat in front of Chase, is Spike Lee.

Only in New York.

But in a strange twist of fate, before we cross over to K-Mart and write this off as just another Gawker Stalker submission, a crew member stops us and asks us if we’re in a hurry. Nope, we say. The sugar bowl can wait.

He points to Spike Lee across the street. “Well, we’ve got a famous director over there, and he’s filming promo spots for next year’s Oscars. He’s looking for Village-y type people to be in them. He’s going to give you famous lines from movies, and you just parrot them back to the camera. You busy?”

Hell no, we’re not busy. Give us the release forms.

So we hang out for a half hour or so, filling out forms and getting Polaroids taken of us, and before we knew it, Deb was standing in front of the Astor Place 6 station, saying:

“I am big, it’s the pictures that got small!”
-Sunset Blvd.

“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”
-It’s a Wonderful Life

And then I’m shaking hands with Spike Lee, thrown in front of some big lights, and he has me screaming:

“Attica! Attica!”
-Dog Day Afternoon

“You talkin’ to me?”
-Taxi Driver

“I coulda been a contender! I coulda been somebody!”
-On the Waterfront

And my personal favorite:

“All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
-Sunset Blvd.

I have now not only met Spike Lee, but have been directed by Spike Lee. Spike Lee has screamed “WITH MORE ATTITUDE!” at me.

If anyone catches this on TV (probably sometime in February), please let me know, and if you catch it on tape, I’ll love you forever.

Only in New York.