By NICK VIVARELLIROME -- Spike Lee engaged the Italo press with some anti-Hollywood ranting as he officially unveiled his new World War II project about the plight of black American soldiers fighting the German army in Tuscany.
"If you look at the history of Hollywood, the black soldiers who fought World War II are totally invisible," Lee lashed out during a packed presser in Rome's posh Hotel de Russie.
"This is the paradox: black people who were fighting for democracy but at the same time were second class citizens at home," Lee elaborated further.
Read more of this story in Variety.