Word: poitier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teammates. When a group of airline executives asked him to appear at their banquet, he said, "Invite the rest of the team and I 'll be happy to come." On another occasion, when a TV interviewer complimented him on his poise, he drawled: "Well, I'm not Sidney Poitier...
...with glittering women in spangled gowns and beaded maxi coats. Diana Ross, looking supreme in a see-through blouse and a swept-wing hairdo she called "the liberated look," was upstaged by two chesty twins who bounced down the aisle in gold-sequined gowns cut to the navel. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby provided some comic relief with a mock sparring match in the ring. The surprise ending came later, when 100 of the spectators, responding to engraved invitations to a postfight party, went to the suburban home of a local black gangster -and were met by a team...
Look to the Lilies belongs to this sorry lot. Adapted from the 1963 film Lilies of the Field, which starred Lilia Skala and Sidney Poitier, the show is peculiarly ill-attuned to the temper of the present time. The musical presents a group of West German nuns relocated in the Southwestern U.S. They are trying to minister to Mexicans and Indians under the flinty, egocentric but spiritually incandescent will of their superior, Mother Maria (Shirley Booth). Into their midst comes a Negro on the lam, Homer Smith (Al Freeman Jr.). It is Mother Maria's conviction that Homer...
With money as tight as it is, stars are increasingly being talked into sharing the risk and, in effect, bankrolling their own pictures. Frankovich persuaded Sidney Poitier to work for nothing "up front" but 10% of the gross in To Sir with Love. Poitier's take is $2,000,000 already and should hit $4,000,000. Natalie Wood, once around the $750,000 level, turned down a similar deal in Bonnie and Clyde, then last year came around on Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice; she won't be sorry...
Perhaps the greatest violence of Soldier Blue is done offscreen-to Director Nelson's image. Five years ago, a righteous Hollywood organization entitled Operation Moral Upgrade awarded him a halo-shaped pin for his work on Lilies of the Field, which featured Sidney Poitier and a gaggle of fluttering nuns. "Apparently," Nelson says, "Mrs. Van New Kirk, the head of the group, recently saw an article about this film. I got a horrible letter drumming me out of the corps. I am no longer an angel. I consider it an honor...