Word: poitier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pamela Poitier, 22. is determined to make it on her own. She turned down a part in Father Sidney Poitier's movie, tentatively titled Piece of the Action, in order to act off-Broadway. "I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to be independent and make my statement alone," she explains. Her statement turns out to be that of a "sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details...
Jones said his immediate plans are for a trip to Hollywood to work on a film with Sidney Poitier. He said his motive is "to make some money," which he said he has "great need for at the moment...
...Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby, amiable enough fellows in last year's Up town Saturday Night, were not so memorable that anyone would want to meet them again, especially as soon as this. But the same Poitier-Cosby characters are on view in Let's Do It Again, an other comedy full of tired jokes and fairly high spirits...
This time Poitier plays an Atlanta milkman named Clyde. Cosby is his best pal, a factory worker called Billy. With their wives, they take a weekend's jaunt to New Orleans, where they hope to raise money for the Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black...
...this sounds like the end of the movie, bear in mind that its title is Let's Do It Again. The whole caper is recycled. Poitier and Cosby are hauled back to New Orleans by Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and his boys, who feel they got bilked and want to work the same ploy on a rival gambler named Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Now this is not a movie with jokes to spare. By the time Poitier and Cosby have rerun their plot, the meager supply has been totally exhausted. So has the audience...