NEW YORK (AP) – One of the most poignant interviews in the Hurricane Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke” is given by a man who lost his mother in the aftermath of the storm, filmmaker Spike Lee said.

In the interview, Herbert Freeman recalls his mother’s death at New Orleans Convention Center and the moment he had to leave her body there as he and other evacuees were taken out of the city.

“Before he got on a bus – he had a piece of paper, wrote his name, his cell number and her name and placed the paper between her fingers, her body,” Lee said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

“How could this happen, in the – supposedly – the wealthiest, mightiest country in the world? Really, that’s the question,” Lee said.

The four-hour film, divided into four acts, examines the government’s response to Katrina. The first two parts debut Monday on HBO and the remaining acts will be shown Tuesday.

Lee’s film “Do the Right Thing” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. His documentary “4 Little Girls” was nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Academy Award in 1997.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – James Denton has a theory why “Desperate Housewives” didn’t get an Emmy nomination for best comedy.

Denton, who plays plumber Mike Delfino on the ABC series, said he thinks “Housewives” falls “between the cracks” when it comes to Emmy categories.

“I don’t think the show is a pure comedy or pure drama and last year, particularly, it was very dark,” Denton told Associated Press Television News at Saturday’s creative arts Emmy Awards. “So, when you’re nominating yourself or presenting yourself as a comedy, there’s certainly funnier shows on television, as a pure comedy.”

The main Emmy ceremony will be held Sunday, Aug. 27.

NEW YORK (AP) – Rapper Busta Rhymes was arraigned Sunday on an assault charge after he was reportedly accused of attacking a man for spitting on his car.

The New York Police Department released few details about the arrest, saying only that the incident occurred Aug. 12. Rhymes was arraigned on a charge of third-degree assault and was released on his own recognizance, said Barbara Thompson, spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office. He is due back in court Oct. 24.

A lawyer for Rhymes, Scott Leemon, said the charge should have merited only a desk appearance ticket.

“This is payback by the NYPD,” he said.

Police have wanted to interview Rhymes since the February shooting death of one of his bodyguards, Israel Ramirez.

Ramirez, 29, was killed outside a Brooklyn studio where Rhymes was recording a music video.

The performer and another bodyguard were sued the following month by a fan who says the two men beat him after he asked for the rapper’s autograph.

Police arrested Rhymes Saturday evening after he performed at the AmsterJam Music Festival on Randall’s Island. The New York Post said police believe Rhymes beat a man who spat on his car near Gramercy Park.