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...Three Wives (1949) and won both those awards again for All About Eve (1950). He also directed one of the biggest film flops of all time: Cleopatra (1963, starring Elizabeth Taylor). But his cinematic successes were legion, and legendary: The Philadelphia Story (James Stewart), No Way Out (Sidney Poitier), Guys and Dolls (Marlon Brando), Suddenly Last Summer (Montgomery Clift), Woman of the Year (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) and more...
From the '50s onward, then, Hollywood began to move away from the bug-eyed, watermelon-eating portrayals of African-Americans that abounded in the '30s, introducing a wider variety of characters. As Stepin Fetchit became a phenomenon of the past, stars like Lena Horne and Sidney Poitier were born. Nevertheless, the roles available to Blacks were still basically tame--musicians, functionaries, and other characters that did little to challenge the status quo. The few movies that did have an edge to them were poorly distributed or received criticism for being too incendiary. For example, 20th Century Fox's controversial...
...period from the beginning of race movies through the era of Poitier and Belafonte are the subject of A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters by John Kisch and Edward Mapp. This book is a glossy compilation of hundreds of posters used in promoting independent race movies and Hollywood features with an important African-American presence. Spike Lee offers an inconsequential preface that is thoroughly put to shame by the excellent introduction by Donald Bogle...
First, I saw "Sneakers," the new Sidney Poitier-Robert Redford film about Orwellian government use of technology capable of unearthing just about any iota of informations it wants on individual citizens...
...Bishop (a well-cast Robert Redford) is a sometime merry prankster, still on the run for computer crimes he committed in the '60s; he now heads a marginal enterprise that does legalized breaking and entering designed to test corporate security systems. His associates include a defrocked cia operative (Sidney Poitier); a gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille; and a kid (River Phoenix) who demonstrated his personal best when he illegally improved his grades in a raid...