(john pierson) but he's had to put up with a lot more resistance. he's had to fight more fights.ou can't gamble in harlem without the white man's okay. (narrator) lee's ambitious "malcolm x" cost over $25 million. (malcolm "x") i say and i say it again, you been had, you been joked. you been hoodwinked, bamboozled and led astray, run amok. there was a point in the film, after we had finished shooting, while we were finishing, where the money was cut off. i wanted to continue working, so i called up michael jordan and magic johnson, prince, janet jackson, tracy chapman, oprah winfrey, and i just told them the truth: i need money. and they wrote me a check -- all of them. (narrator) 1994 signaled a return to smaller budgets with "crooklyn" a film about growing up in brooklyn in the 1970's. what we wanted to do is to elevate black cinema to what we've done in music, in sports and everything else. we're not at the level yet because we're in our infancy as far as films go. but another 20 years, we're going to produce our duke ellingtons, our own mary beardons, our james baldwins, peop

(john pierson) but he's had to put up with a lot more resistance. he's had to fight more fights.ou can't gamble in harlem without the white man's okay. (narrator) lee's ambitious "malcolm x" cost over $25 million. (malcolm "x") i say and i say it again, you been had, you been joked. you been hoodwinked, bamboozled and led astray, run amok. there was a point in the film, after we had finished shooting, while we were finishing, where the money was cut off. i wanted to continue working, so i called up michael jordan and magic johnson, prince, janet jackson, tracy chapman, oprah winfrey, and i just told them the truth: i need money. and they wrote me a check -- all of them. (narrator) 1994 signaled a return to smaller budgets with "crooklyn" a film about growing up in brooklyn in the 1970's. what we wanted to do is to elevate black cinema to what we've done in music, in sports and everything else. we're not at the level yet because we're in our infancy as far as films go. but another 20 years, we're going to produce our duke ellingtons, our own mary beardons, our james baldwins, peop

deal offered to john boehner, $400 billion in medicare savings, they hope it kick starts talks on long-term deficit reduction. >>> and the secret service is talking about julia pierson director of the secret service. information posted about her, credit report, banking information, retail credit card accounts, the fbi won't say if the information about her was accurate. >>> maryland lawmakers passing a sweeping overhaul of gun laws last night. the governor promises to sign the deal. opponents have threatened to petition the bill, trying to put it on a ballot. >>> a robber in arizona should have quit while he was ahead. he got away with some oxy cottin. this time, an employee points a gun at him, and he runs out empty handed. half hour later, gets his pills and out the door when two citizens with guns order him to the ground, took his weapon and held him until police arrived. >>> and in attleboro, massachusetts, it is explained to say why students with negative balances on their prepaid lunch card were told to go hungry. 25 children left without a meal after cafeteria employees ordered them to throw out their lunches after discovering the kids couldn't pay for them.