While much of the world mourned the passing of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee yesterday, one newspaper in New Zealand was marking the death of an entirely different celebrity — Spike Lee.
Making for a serious front-page blunder, New Zealand's Gisborne Herald pronounced the filmmaker dead, and now it's going viral for all the wrong reasons.
As you can see in a photo of the paper, the headline mistakenly wrote "Spike Lee Dies at 95" — though the director of such films as Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X is indeed very much still alive.
To clear up any doubt, in fact, Lee himself posted a photo of the typo-making newspaper, channelling one of the most famous lines from Do the Right Thing with the following caption: "God Bless Stan Lee. Me? Not Yet. And Dat's Da "I'm Still A Live, And Strivin'" Truth,Ruth. YA-DIG? SHO-NUFF."
So fear not, Lee — Spike but sadly not Stan — is still among us.
Making for a serious front-page blunder, New Zealand's Gisborne Herald pronounced the filmmaker dead, and now it's going viral for all the wrong reasons.
As you can see in a photo of the paper, the headline mistakenly wrote "Spike Lee Dies at 95" — though the director of such films as Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X is indeed very much still alive.
To clear up any doubt, in fact, Lee himself posted a photo of the typo-making newspaper, channelling one of the most famous lines from Do the Right Thing with the following caption: "God Bless Stan Lee. Me? Not Yet. And Dat's Da "I'm Still A Live, And Strivin'" Truth,Ruth. YA-DIG? SHO-NUFF."
So fear not, Lee — Spike but sadly not Stan — is still among us.