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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Apparently, one never knows when the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bloomsbury "set" will appear. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In an interesting article by Tim Adams on Spike Lee's new film,
</span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">BlacKkKlansman </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/29/spike-lee-interview-blackkklansmen-film" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk343043" previewremoved="true" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/29/spike-lee-interview-blackkklansmen-film</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">),
this passage appears:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 17px;">“It is,” [Spike Lee] says, “but it depends on there being a place where artists find it affordable to live. A young Andy Warhol in Pittsburgh, or even a young Madonna in Michigan, could not make it to New York and exist here now.”</span></div>
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He doesn’t believe online hubs can replace those communities.</p>
“It’s gotta be f</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ace to face. We were all bumping into each other on the block here.” He fetches a picture from the studio’s bathroom wall of
</span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the coolest-looking Bloomsbury set</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of all time and runs through the names: “Chris Rock. Joseph Simmons from Run DMC. Bill Stephney from Public Enemy. A few of them are
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Department of English<br>
Southern Connecticut State University<br>
New Haven, CT 06515<br>
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