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The game, the players, yesterday and today, along with on- and off-court anecdotes, engaging reminiscences, and controversial opinions, The Best Seat in the House shares with readers the memories of avid Knicks fan Spike Lee over the past three decades. of photos.
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出版社周刊评论
The New York Knicks haven't won the NBA championship since 1973, when filmmaker Lee was a scrappy teenager in Brooklyn. Today, Lee is part of the basketball industrynot as a player, but as a trenchant critic of the NBA and the racial politics of professional sports, and as a voluble presence at most Knicks games, hectoring opponents and referees from his $1000 courtside seat. In this disjointed but high-spirited memoir, Lee uses the history of pro basketball and the evolution of the Knicks since the 1970s as a prism for his own life story. Once a marginalized sport, according to Lee, stigmatized as "too black," basketball has come into its own as an entertainment business. Anecdotes about memorable players and games are intercut throughout the events of Lee's life, such as his mother's death when he was a college student; the breakthrough of his film She's Gotta Have It; and the tumultuous production of his biopic of Malcolm X. This narrative strategy sometimes misfires, as Lee's personal nuances are lost to long rafts of statistics and game replays. What holds the book together, though, are such fine set pieces as a conversation with Woody Allen (in many ways Lee's alter ego, Allen schedules his shoots around Knicks games); portraits of basketball greats like Walt Frazier and Michael Jordan; and an outspoken candor on the racial politics of this most racially complex of professional sports. Author tour. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Commentary on professional basketball woven through a memoir and reflections on the state of late-20th-century, interracial America. At some point in every broadcast of a New York Knicks game in Madison Square Garden, the camera zeroes in on filmmaker Spike Lee in his courtside seat (for which he pays $1,000 a game), dressed in Knicks jersey and cap, often caught in a moment of great emotion. For all the praise and criticism generated by such films as Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing, Lee contends that he has gotten more visibility from his association with basketball: for the style- setting commercials he has shot for Nike, and for ``having the best seat in the house.'' Writing with Wiley (What Black People Should Do Now, 1993; Dark Witness, 1996; etc.), Lee chronicles his long journey with the Knicks from the nosebleed seats to courtside; from the night as a 13-year-old when he chose the Knicks 196970 championship game over his father's jazz concert, through ensuing decades of teams bad, mediocre, and near-great. Simultaneously, he tells the story of his life and career, intercut with interviews with many of his favorite players, including Clyde Drexler, Bill Bradley, George Gervin, John Starks, and Michael Jordan. Just as in Lee's films, the style flows from street vernacular to standard English, from irreverent and often hilarious observations to serious and intensely reflective commentary, from information to provocation. More than just a superfan's dream come true, to play sportswriter and be allowed to get inside his heroes' heads, Lee attempts to do with basketball what many writers have done with baseball: use it as a metaphor for life and the social condition. Just like the athletes Lee admires most, he and Wiley play their hearts out here, making this one of the best sports books of recent years. (8 pages of b&w photos, not seen) (Author tour)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Filmmaker Lee gives every indication that he really loves b-ball best as he places his devotion to the game and to his beloved Knickerbockers at the center of this version of his life story and sweeps even nonfans off their feet with his intensity.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The filmmaker on his love of basketball. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.