Word: poitier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story that this trio have concocted for us seems like a typical Hollywood melange of free association, plagiarism, and stupidity. Sidney Poitier plays Warren Stantin, an FBI agent (you can tell because of the huge letters "FBI" on his windbreaker) who is tracking a fiendish kidnapper from the streets of San Francisco to the Great White North of Canada...
This reviewer won't ruin what little suspense there is in this movie by revealing whether Kirstie is taken hostage by the kidnapper, and whether this enrages her boyfriend Tom Berenger and causes him to join Poitier in tracking down the criminal, and whether the fugitive makes it over the border to Canada, and whether it turns out to really make any difference when he does, but suffice it to say that every plot twist is strikingly implausible and obviously invented only to justify the next improbable twist...
...hard to imagine how a fine set of actors like Poitier, Berenger, and Alley could read a script like Shoot to Kill's and still want to sign on--especially Poitier, who as a returnee to film after an absence of more than a decade ought to have chosen his debut project with a little more care. Sadly, the performances these three give do little to save the film...
...network news reports but also a sought-after guest on TV talk shows. CBS's 60 Minutes has shot a segment on the maverick educator, and Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to his life story ("six figures," plus a percentage of the net, for Joe), with Sidney Poitier as a possible star. "Isn't it something," Clark beams, "that this little black Newark welfare boy is the most popular man in America right...
...American family -- an American family -- and if you want to live like they do, and you're willing to work, the opportunity is there." Others rush to the show's support. "One of the unfortunate things about television is that the black middle class is never seen," says Sidney Poitier. "We see an awful lot of guys pushing dope on street corners." For Anne Roiphe, co-author of Your Child's Mind, the show's idealized picture of family life is healthy for both blacks and whites. "The show demonstrates what Americans wish the world was like," she says. "This...