another book: _Five for Five: The Films of Spike Lee_ photographs by David Lee essays by Terry McMillan, Toni Cade Bambara, Nelson George, Charles Johnson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melvin Van Peebles, intro by Spike Lee. NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. 1991. The story goes that Lee asked each of these contributors for essays, and yes they all praise his work. The other story goes that he asked for an essay by Amiri Baraka, who said he thought his wouldn't "fit." Lee asked anyway. Baraka's essay was not laudatory. Lee rejected it. The fight between them continues in print and elsewhere to this day. cynthia