NP: Sidney Poitier, RIP

[Mark Kohut]

That slap in IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT was not in the original script.
Suits were scared shitless. ..riots! banning! tanking!    He demanded it be
there.....

Do you know to what he attributed his acting ability?   Besides discipline
and drive and practice, practice, practice, of course?
He grew up on an island fishing village. Poor, of course, and he went to
the ocean every day with his mother to 'fish' and comb the beaches. All
did, women all together w their kids if they had any, etc...They talked and
looked at each other and talked more and told stories and laughed and told
stories of getting angry and showed it......he watched those faces all day
and KNEW emotions and their expression..his autobiography is a fine book...

Watch it again while older. Richer than you remember.

What a life, Sir, I say with love.