Spike Lee lashes out at critics who claimed Do the Right Thing would cause riots on release

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As he received the Ebert Director Award – named after the late film critic Roger Ebert – at the Toronto International Film Festival Tribute Awards, Spike Lee blasted writers who claimed his 1989 classic ‘Do the Right Thing’ would spark riots when it came out in the late-1980s.

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