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BABY SHOWER.(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| August 02, 2004 | Lane, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The new Spike Lee movie, "She Hate Me," turns out to be at least two new Spike Lee movies rolled into one. In fact, the melange of plots, subplots, reveries, gags, cartoons, dirty bits, and hissy fits points to a work that is structurally modelled less on the classic narratives of cinema than on, say, a portion of Russian salad. The first morsel of story, which seems chunky enough to fill an entire picture, concerns a fictitious pharmaceutical company by the name of Progeia. Its hot product is an aids vaccine, but the heat is not enough; as the movie starts, the vaccine has been denied a license by the F.D.A. A young black vice-president of the company, Jack Armstrong ...

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