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- <text id=91TT1414>
- <title>
- June 24, 1991: Lost in the Jungle
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 24, 1991 Thelma & Louise
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Lost in the Jungle
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> 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:
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- <p> Wesley Snipes (Flipper, the black architect): "I think
- it's about how color-conscious this society really is."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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