| Vince Hart 2005-08-25, 8:32 pm |
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jr wrote:
quote:
> "Personally, I doubt that any parent who framed the question that way
> would ever be able to
> sufficiently overcome their fear of the former to accept the latter."
> Vince Hart
>
> What planet are you living on? That question is precisely at the
> heart of the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. In fact, some critics
> at the time wondered if the marriage would have proceeded if the black
> man had been a garbage collector instead of Sydney Poitier with a PhD.
What movie did you see? The economic status of Poitier's character was
never an issue in the film. The point was to make the character
unobjectionable in in every other aspect than race so that Tracy's
character had to confront his prejudices.
Vince Hart
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