{"id":28746,"date":"2022-01-07T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28746"},"modified":"2022-01-07T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:13:08","slug":"rip-sidney-poitier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28746","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Sidney Poitier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z010722rip_sidneypoitier.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sidney Poitier, actor, director, and writer died last night at the age of 94.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Poitier was the first Black to win an <em>Academy Award for Best Actor<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1967, had a year most actors only dream about; he starred in three hits (<em>To Sir, with Love<\/em>; <em>In the Heat of the Night<\/em> and <em>Guess Who is Coming to Dinner<\/em>)!\u00a0 In 1972 he directed his first feature film (<em>Buck and the Preacher<\/em>).\u00a0 In 1977, after a career that saw him with over 40 acting and\/or directing credits in 30 years, Sidney Poitier took a break that lasted eleven years!\u00a0 When Sidney Poitier returned he alternated between acting in feature films and television movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2001, Mr. Poitier retired from acting\/directing.\u00a0 He wrote a well-received memoir <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Measure<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">of<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Man:<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Spiritual<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Autobiography<\/span>.\u00a0 In 2009, Mr. Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite Sidney Poitier film is <em>In the Heat of the Night.<\/em> It&#8217;s because the character he played was a calm man of intelligence and dignity&#8230; and he resonated &#8220;cool&#8221;.\u00a0 Cool, not as in hip, but cool as in control of himself and every situation.\u00a0 I was always impressed when I heard Sidney Poitier in interviews.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve lost a legend.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Sidney Poitier&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Poitier, actor, director, and writer died last night at the age of 94.\u00a0 Mr. Poitier was the first Black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28747,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions\/28747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}