Sujet : Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-07 (Friday)
De : ahk (at) *nospam* chinet.com (Adam H. Kerman)
Groupes : rec.arts.tvDate : 08. Jun 2024, 21:05:49
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Adam H. Kerman <
ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (4K disc) Slowly working my way through
another Sony Classics box set, and working my way through some Sidney
Poitier movies, I kicked it off this this 1967 drama starring Poitier as
a young man who meets his fiance's parents (Katharine Hepburn and
Spencer Tracy in his final role). The movie was mostly background noise
with a pretty good commentary track full of lots of trivia I didn't
know. For example the actress who played the fiance was Hepburn's real
life niece. And while others were probably well aware of this, I think
this was the first I realized (also thanks to the commentary track) the
family maid was played by Isabel Sanford (from the Jeffersons).
She got a number of good scenes in it and was quite funny. There's a
good story about how she got cast but I've forgotten.
Poitier, would you believe, was 40 during production. That guy had a
picture of Dorian Gray in his attic.
I really don't like this movie. The Poitier character was too perfect, a
doctor and a great humanitarian and his parents were black intellectuals.
I'm thinking of something else. His father was a letter carrier for the
post office.
. . .