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opening day crowds paid out to see "malcolm x." >> it's hard to miss the phenomenon called spike lee. spike lee is a black man who has reached the top of white culture. he's done it his way. >> "malcolm x's" really impressive achievement in terms of not being one of these small, independent, emergent new voices connected to hip-hop, but instead a big-budget 3 hour 20 minute epic about a very important african-american figure. >> i asked if he was worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience. >> if it's good enough, people are going to come. the minute black artists start thinking about crossover, start diluting the work, watering it down and the work suffers. >> when we look at the john singletons and the spikes, all the way across the board, this