Word: poitiers
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Paris Blues (United Artists) has something for the tourists: autumn in Paris. It has something for the cats: regressive jazz by Duke Ellington. It has something for the newspaper ads: a hint of interracial romance. It has something for the marquee: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll, Louis Armstrong. All it lacks is something to pull these parts into a sensible whole...
...American girls-one pink (Woodward), one beige (Carroll)-take a two-week holiday in Paris, where they meet two American boys-one pale (Newman), one brown (Poitier)-in an integrated cave where the boys play sliphorn and piano. At first Newman makes a pass at Carroll, but the kids are quickly segregated, and soon they are in love. For Newman, love is short but art is long; he sends Woodward home and stays in Paris to study music. For Poitier, love is a ticket back to the U.S.; he decides to marry Carroll and join her crusade for racial equality...
...myself," Actor Sidney Poitier, 34, reflected a while ago, "I'm an average Joe Blow Negro. But as the cats say in my area, I'm out there wailing for us all." Now, adhering to the script of his Broadway and Hollywood hit, A Raisin in the Sun, Miami-born Poitier has moved into a previously all-white exurban area of New York's Westchester County. Ensconced with his wife and four daughters in a newly purchased twelve-room Tudor house in Mount Pleasant, Poitier was enjoying a warm reception from virtually all of his neighbors...
...ghetto involved here is Chicago's black belt, where Scriptwriter Hansberry lived as a child. The hero (Sidney Poitier), his wife (Ruby Dee), his twelve-year-old son (Stephen Perry), his mother (Claudia McNeil) and his sister (Diana Sands) are all jammed together in three small rooms, toilet down the hall. Wife and mother do cleaning for white folks, sister is a pre-med student, hero drives a Cadillac for a downtown business executive-and hates it. At night he paces his low-rent prison and snarls at the walls: "I got to change my life...
...funny lines: "I'm not interested," she bellows at her Nigerian boy friend, "in being somebody's little episode in America." But Actress McNeil, worshiped by Broadway critics as an Earth Mother, too often on the screen suggests a mean old man in a wig. And Actor Poitier, though always exciting to watch, never quite starts living his role, never quite stops playing the black Brando...