Sidney Poitier, beloved legend and first black best actor Oscar winner, dead at 94

[Rotadom]

Sidney Poitier, beloved legend and first black best actor Oscar winner, dead at 94

https://i.imgur.com/JoqCkJY.jpg?1

https://nypost.com/2022/01/07/beloved-actor-sidney-poitier-dead-at-94/

 

[DanDraper]

We lost another great one.




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[islandman]

I wonder if he and Betty White ever worked together.

Maybe they're colab'ing right now.

 

[mayfly13]

One of the classiest actors the World has ever seen.
And he came from a poor, uneducated Black family from the islands.

Compared to him, the current British Royals look so ...unsophisticated and ordinary...

 

[LukSkyFokker]

And he came from a poor, uneducated Black family from the islands.

Born a poor black child

 

[stickygirl]

Me Gran liked him

 

[Sean]

Great actor and all round decent bloke. I might just watch In the Heat of the Night in his honour.

 

[hobbit.]

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Compared to him, the current British Royals look so ...unsophisticated and ordinary...

Are you suggesting that Mervin Markle once met George Mitchell ?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.iBdpxkBsserBJlqL_rIMiAHaGx%26pid%3DApi&f=1

 

[nowisthetime]

Another legend gone!

He was one of my favorite actors of all time! Always playing dignified roles, so debonair!


Lilies of the Field

To Sir with Love

In the Heat of the Night

So many wonderful films he has starred in.

The Bahamas finest!

Rest in peace, great sir!

One of my favorite scenes from To Sir with Love
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[butters]

R.I.P, Mr. Poitier

never met a film of yours i didn't learn from

 

[Bud_Spencer]

RIP to a great actor.

 

[hobbit.]

R.I.P, Mr. Poitier

never met a film of yours i didn't learn from

you learn from Hollywood?

 

[mayfly13]

you learn from Hollywood?

and as for the 4-5 class conscioussness-rising movies he starred in
no mention of the White folks who wrote or produced them

 

[ToPleaseHim]

and as for the 4-5 class conscioussness-rising movies he starred in
no mention of the White folks who wrote or produced them

The thread is about Sidney Poitier. If you would like to see a thread celebrating white writers and producers, you should create one.

 

[Sean]

The thread is about Sidney Poitier. If you would like to see a thread celebrating white writers and producers, you should create one.

Seriously, don't bother engaging with the supposedly permabanned Dishrag. He's a racist moron that sucks up to the right wing posters because they're the only ones that don't call him a cunt.

 

[hobbit.]

As for the quinoa munching middleclass liberals who live in reassuringly expensive suburbs where the underprivileged are never likely to buy homes - yet who like to push the social inclusion agenda...

 

[Saint_Ann]

I think my mom wanted his bbc. Thanks rory for the obit.

 

[mayfly13]

My irony was directed at butters,
you virtue-signalling White bovines.

My first post about SP shows that I'm anything But a racist.

 

[Rotadom]

and as for the 4-5 class conscioussness-rising movies he starred in
no mention of the White folks who wrote or produced them

Thanks for ruining the thread.

 

[loveupskirt]

Thanks for ruining the thread.

It is unfortunate that EVERY thread here eventually turns into a right-left namecalling session. RIP Mr. Poitier. You were a fine actor and a decent man.

 

[Tigersman]

you learn from Hollywood?

If you can't learn something that came out of Hollywood then you are watching nothing but comedies and horror films. Try watching The Tuskeegee Airmen, The Flyboys, and U571 for starters. They are all history based.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

If you can't learn something that came out of Hollywood then you are watching nothing but comedies and horror films. Try watching The Tuskeegee Airmen, The Flyboys, and U571 for starters. They are all history based.

So is once upon a time in Hollywood.

 

[rockcasbah]

you learn from Hollywood?

Only the eating scenes.