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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2022, 04:24:04 PM

Title: Sydney Poitier dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2022, 04:24:04 PM

Both iconic and iconoclastic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59907931

Title: Re: Sydney Poitier dead
Post by: The Accountant, OBE, KC on January 08, 2022, 11:54:25 AM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 07, 2022, 04:24:04 PM

Both iconic and iconoclastic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59907931

Wonderful actor - loved his films.

Brilliant scene in "In the Heat of the Night" when Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs slaps the white plantation owner.

https://tinyurl.com/42565ssh

http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1101-Spring-2011/Shot-to-Remember-Norman-Jewison.aspx

Title: Re: Sydney Poitier dead
Post by: Enki on January 08, 2022, 02:57:22 PM

Sad to hear of his death, but what a wonderful life this great actor led. For me, it was the tense and nuanced relationship between Poitier and Steiger in  "In the Heat of the Night" which I found most fascinating.