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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Lost in the Jungle
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- What's the message in Jungle Fever, director Spike Lee's
- new film about an interracial love affair? Not even the film's
- main players can agree:
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- Lonette McKee (who portrays the betrayed wife): "The
- message is, you've got to follow your heart and do what you want
- to do in love."
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- Spike Lee: "A lot of these relationships aren't based on
- love, but on sexual myths -- that the white woman is the epitome
- of beauty and that black males are sexual supermen."
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- Annabella Sciorra (Angie, the white mistress): "My
- character just happens to meet a black man. I don't think she
- goes out with him because he's black."
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- Wesley Snipes (Flipper, the black architect): "I think
- it's about how color-conscious this society really is."
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