RIP Sidney Poitier
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RIP Sidney Poitier
I did not realize, until I read the Guardian piece on him, that the three films for which I remember him - To Sir With Love; In The Heat Of The Night; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - were all released in 1967. One more thing to remember that year for.
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He was a great one. "They call me Mr.Tibbs", one of the most memorable cinematic lines.
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Cross him off the dinner list then.
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I cannot be alone in thinking he'd been dead for years.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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That was Harry Belefonte. (He’s dead right?)
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Daily Mail headline minutes ago:
Just because oldsters aren’t in the spotlight anymore doesn’t mean they’re dead.Harry Belafonte's daughter says that her father who united with Sidney Poitier to fight for civil rights is devastated over his death, calling it more difficult than 'losing Martin L. King'
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BSG is right, but in today's world of information overload, where there's always something on Tikky-Takky or Twatter or Faux News and the average person's attention span is measured in nano-seconds, "out of sight" is quickly "out of mind". That's why a lot of current-day celebs (and even some has-beens, who are aware their star is dimmed to almost nothing) will do almost anything, like dressing/acting outrageously or releasing claims of shit that allegedly happened to them decades ago, just to keep their name in the public consciousness.
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Actually I think it was Mandela who died back in the 80’s
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Or maybe 2013?
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No he died in jail in the 80’s
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Mandela had that effect on people.
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I must not get the joke.
Ah, it’s the misremembering of millions of people who don’t actually follow or read news and current affairs: https://www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/so ... la-effect/
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I'm too young to remember most of his work...though I recall reading the (nonfiction) book "To Sir With Love" was based on. (By E. Ricardo Braithwaite, highly recommended.) The movie I remember him in was part of the ensemble cast in Sneakers.
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I highly recommend a weekend devoted to streaming some of his films - they really are quite brilliant performances and stand the test of time. I watch To Sir With Love at least once a year, but many of the others are worthy of multiple viewings, too.
I’m so grateful for Sidney Poitier, without whom there would never have been a Denzel Washington.
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Ah, AmericansBoSoxGal wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:22 pmI must not get the joke.
Ah, it’s the misremembering of millions of people who don’t actually follow or read news and current affairs: https://www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/so ... la-effect/
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts