Date: 8/01/2022 03:05:28
From: sibeen
ID: 1833352
Subject: To Sir, with love
Sidney Poitier has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/07/sidney-poitier-in-the-heat-of-the-night-acting-pioneer-dies
Sidney Poitier has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/07/sidney-poitier-in-the-heat-of-the-night-acting-pioneer-dies
He was in the nervous nineties.
Peak Warming Man said:
He was in the nervous nineties.
Lulu is still with us.
a patch of blue
Peak Warming Man said:
He was in the nervous nineties.
He had a good knock
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Woodie said:
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Die, Queen, Die.
Just think of those million obituaries that have already been written but can’t be published until you’ve gone.
what was the movie where he built a church for the nuns?
sarahs mum said:
what was the movie where he built a church for the nuns?
Witty Rejoinder said:
sarahs mum said:
what was the movie where he built a church for the nuns?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilies_of_the_Field_(1963_film)
Very forgettable title.
Ta.
I remember seeing To Sir With Love at the theatre. My sister was a big fan of both Poitier and Lulu.The 45 got spun a lot. For years.
She lamented his passing this morning in between all the covid news about the family which was trange but poignant.
sarahs mum said:
I remember seeing To Sir With Love at the theatre. My sister was a big fan of both Poitier and Lulu.The 45 got spun a lot. For years.She lamented his passing this morning in between all the covid news about the family which was trange but poignant.
strange
sarahs mum said:
I remember seeing To Sir With Love at the theatre. My sister was a big fan of both Poitier and Lulu.The 45 got spun a lot. For years.She lamented his passing this morning in between all the covid news about the family which was trange but poignant.
We had to read the novel in year 8 and I thought it was a bit crappy, as did our teacher. The film was much the same but was very influential in its time.
To Sir, with love (1967) – the ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaEf4ktpPA
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I remember seeing To Sir With Love at the theatre. My sister was a big fan of both Poitier and Lulu.The 45 got spun a lot. For years.She lamented his passing this morning in between all the covid news about the family which was trange but poignant.
We had to read the novel in year 8 and I thought it was a bit crappy, as did our teacher. The film was much the same but was very influential in its time.
I had to read it too, I had no lasting opinion on it…
furious said:
Bubblecar said:
sarahs mum said:
I remember seeing To Sir With Love at the theatre. My sister was a big fan of both Poitier and Lulu.The 45 got spun a lot. For years.She lamented his passing this morning in between all the covid news about the family which was trange but poignant.
We had to read the novel in year 8 and I thought it was a bit crappy, as did our teacher. The film was much the same but was very influential in its time.
I had to read it too, I had no lasting opinion on it…
I thought the teacher was a bit of a conservative prick, and that he expected equality on that basis, rather than racism being moronic.
Bubblecar said:
furious said:
Bubblecar said:We had to read the novel in year 8 and I thought it was a bit crappy, as did our teacher. The film was much the same but was very influential in its time.
I had to read it too, I had no lasting opinion on it…
I thought the teacher was a bit of a conservative prick, and that he expected equality on that basis, rather than racism being moronic.
Seems some people agree with me:
>In a review of several of Braithwaite’s books, F. M. Birbalsingh wrote:
Unfortunately, the narration of Mr. Braithwaite’s problems in To Sir, With Love is greatly weakened by the rapid and simple solutions that he offers As his frequent acceptance of glowing tribute from admiring colleagues suggests, what chiefly concerns Mr. Braithwaite, regardless of the problems at hand, is the satisfactory projection of his own image as a rather talented and thoroughly civilised black man. All that To Sir, With Love really achieves is a sordid demonstration of the author’s vanity. Nor is his description of specifically racial problems any more discerning. Mr. Braithwaite is shocked when refused social status equal to a Briton with academic qualifications and level of conduct similar to his own; and he constantly stresses the ease with which he could assimilate into British society if only his colour were disregarded Prejudice against him is unfair, he claims, because of his social accomplishment, not because of his humanity; and he implies thereby that prejudice against black people who lack similar cultural habits may be justified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Sir,_With_Love_(novel)