Joseph Heller still dead, still at 76 (and other celebrity deaths): RIP Hank Aaron and Willie Mays
12-31-2021
, 06:07 PM
01-07-2022
, 12:41 PM
RIP
One of the all-time greats who rose to the height of his profession as the country was truly beginning to integrate.
I still remember sitting in a theatre in S Los Angeles with a mixed-race audience in 1967 with my cousins watching In The Heat Of The Night and hearing the grunts and comments as Warren Oates patted him down in the depot as Poitier just stares at the floor. One of my all-time theatre memories and a revelation.
In 1967 Poitier insisted that the film be shot in the North because of past incidents with the KKK. The only scenes shot south of the Mason-Dixon Line were at the nearest cotton plantation they could find in Tennessee.
One of the all-time greats who rose to the height of his profession as the country was truly beginning to integrate.
I still remember sitting in a theatre in S Los Angeles with a mixed-race audience in 1967 with my cousins watching In The Heat Of The Night and hearing the grunts and comments as Warren Oates patted him down in the depot as Poitier just stares at the floor. One of my all-time theatre memories and a revelation.
In 1967 Poitier insisted that the film be shot in the North because of past incidents with the KKK. The only scenes shot south of the Mason-Dixon Line were at the nearest cotton plantation they could find in Tennessee.
01-07-2022
, 12:49 PM