Sidney Poitier, RIP

[bcla]

yes that common curriculum, I know that at least 10 years ago, Sidney, Leonardo and Marlon were movie actors that high school graduates were exposed to in the literature side of high school

Nah. We had some interesting movies that we watched in the 80s on VHS. Can't remember all of them. I remember after reading 1984 we did somehow have a copy of the latest movie version and only saw a few minutes of it. Our teacher stopped it well before the explicit parts. Of course we were allowed to read the novel itself uncensored.

Heck - once we even had an AP class where we had no finals, where each class normally shifted to an all morning or all afternoon slot during the week. Something like period 1 for Monday morning, period 2 for Tuesday morning, etc. Almost everyone took an AP test so it wasn't needed and we were rewarded with a movie. We ended up watching Monty Python's the Meaning of Life. And the teacher didn't skip over any part of it.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Honestly, I didn't even realize he was still alive. 94 is a good long life.