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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-07 (Friday)
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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (4K disc) Slowly working my way through 
>>another Sony Classics box set, and working my way through some Sidney 
>>Poitier movies, I kicked it off this this 1967 drama starring Poitier as 
>>a young man who meets his fiance's parents (Katharine Hepburn and 
>>Spencer Tracy in his final role).  The movie was mostly background noise 
>>with a pretty good commentary track full of lots of trivia I didn't 
>>know.  For example the actress who played the fiance was Hepburn's real 
>>life niece.  And while others were probably well aware of this, I think 
>>this was the first I realized (also thanks to the commentary track) the 
>>family maid was played by Isabel Sanford (from the Jeffersons).

>She got a number of good scenes in it and was quite funny. There's a
>good story about how she got cast but I've forgotten.

>Poitier, would you believe, was 40 during production. That guy had a
>picture of Dorian Gray in his attic.

>I really don't like this movie. The Poitier character was too perfect, a
>doctor and a great humanitarian and his parents were black intellectuals.

I'm thinking of something else. His father was a letter carrier for the
post office.

>. . .