Hardbopjazz Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 He was a great actor. 94 is a good life. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 Time to break out those Quincy Jones albums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted January 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 Mods, can you move this to the artist forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 Oh gosh. RIP. 10 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said: Time to break out those Quincy Jones albums! To what is this a reference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 R.I.P .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 10 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said: Oh gosh. RIP. To what is this a reference? Seriously? The Lost Man In the Heat of the Night They Call Me Mr., Tibbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milestones Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 A great one for sure...in every way. R.I.P., Sidney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 RIP. What a life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 25 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said: Seriously? The Lost Man In the Heat of the Night They Call Me Mr., Tibbs Okay. Understood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 R.I.P. He was a pioneer for African-American actors, for sure. This is my favourite: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 26 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said: Okay. Understood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al in NYC Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 5 hours ago, mikeweil said: R.I.P. He was a pioneer for African-American actors, for sure. This is my favourite: First movie I thought of when I heard of his death. Just saw it again recently on TCM and it's not bad at all, although it's more a romance than anything else (and you can pretty clearly see the romance between Paul and Joanne), and clunks a bit in spots around the jazz parts of the story despite Louis Armstrong's interesting character and the Ellington soundtrack. Nice role for the late Diahann Carroll here, and her romance/debate with Poitier around living black in the US and France really seems the best part of the movie today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted January 7, 2022 Report Share Posted January 7, 2022 Sidney Poitier gave his all in every film that I saw. A true great… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 RIP, to one of the greatest actors who ever lived. I still cry at the end of, "To Sir With Love" when Lulu sings the title song. He was also great in "A Patch of Blue"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 17 hours ago, Al in NYC said: First movie I thought of when I heard of his death. Just saw it again recently on TCM and it's not bad at all, although it's more a romance than anything else (and you can pretty clearly see the romance between Paul and Joanne), and clunks a bit in spots around the jazz parts of the story despite Louis Armstrong's interesting character and the Ellington soundtrack. Nice role for the late Diahann Carroll here, and her romance/debate with Poitier around living black in the US and France really seems the best part of the movie today. Same here about "Paris Blues". As I remember reading in a series of articles of jazz in the movies that ran in the early 60s, "Jazz Hot" severely blasted the movie for the stereotypes it perpetuated, but probably France (and Paris, in particular) was well ahead of what would have been possible and feasible in a movie for a U.S. audience back at that time. At any rate, in those of his movies that I remember it always seemed to me that Sidney Poitier always tried to push the boundaries as far he could within the constraints that just were there, like it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said: ..... but probably France (and Paris, in particular) was well ahead of what would have been possible and feasible in a movie for a U.S. audience back at that time. At any rate, in those of his movies that I remember it always seemed to me that Sidney Poitier always tried to push the boundaries as far he could within the constraints that just were there, like it or not. I can't see such a film being made in the USA at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 18 minutes ago, mikeweil said: I can't see such a film being made in the USA at that time. Well. no, not when you can use Paris as a backdrop for a story that takes place in, uh, Paris. It was otherwise an American movie all the way, United Artists the studio, Sam Shaw producer, Martin Ritt director. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 On 1/7/2022 at 11:03 AM, Teasing the Korean said: The Lost Man In the Heat of the Night They Call Me Mr., Tibbs Oh, and The Slender Thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al in NYC Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 On 1/8/2022 at 7:55 PM, sgcim said: RIP, to one of the greatest actors who ever lived. I still cry at the end of, "To Sir With Love" when Lulu sings the title song. He was also great in "A Patch of Blue"... The score of which inspired this very fine album. One of the very very rare sideman appearances by Sun Ra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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