@torunn saidI read the book, but never saw the movie but always did want to. I remember Sydney Poitier in "Up the Down Staircase". He's good.
Virgil Tibbs - Sidney Poitier as the black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi - In The Heat of the Night, ("They call me mr Tibbs".)
Why: we seldom meet people with his intelligence and integrity.
Where: a restaurant somewhere in Manhattan.
@earl-of-trumps saidlol
I remember Sydney Poitier in "Up the Down Staircase".
he didn't appear in that movie
@earl-of-trumps said
I read the book, but never saw the movie but always did want to. I remember Sydney Poitier in "Up the Down Staircase". He's good.
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@rookie54 saidI think he was thinking of To Sir, With Love, 1967.
lol
he didn't appear in that movie
Almost the same premise, teachers in an inner-city high school. TSWL inspired the 1969 ABC series Room 222, which was presented as a comedy, presumably to make the subject matter more palatable.
@the-gravedigger saidThere's something to be said for authenticity.
I would still rather go and get a burger with a z list fox.
But I am a very shallow creature.
The deeper you look, the more interesting it gets, unless the person is truly just one-dimensional.