The San Francisco 49ers are headed back to the Super Bowl, and they’ll have some very famous stars cheering them on to victory.
23.01.2024 - 21:09 / variety.com
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Norman Jewison made movies that mattered. “Timing is everything,” the director told me, the one time we met. I’d been enlisted to host a long Q&A with Jewison at the American Cinematheque — and I was more than a little intimidated.
From “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” in 1966 to “Other People’s Money” in 1991, Jewison had an astonishing quarter-century run behind the camera, directing movies that impacted the culture when they came out (none more than “In the Heat of the Night”), a great many of which are still being watched today. Jewison liked to tell the story of how he met Bobby Kennedy before making the landmark Sidney Poitier picture (Jewison was old school, always referring to projects as “pictures”). He and Kennedy crossed paths on skiing vacation, where both of their kids wound up the hospital.
Still developing “In the Heat of the Night” at the time, Jewison found himself explaining the plot to RFK: A Black detective from the big city goes to Mississippi to investigate a murder, butting up against the racist attitudes everywhere in town, including among the local cops. (Rod Steiger won an Oscar for his role; Poitier wasn’t even nominated.) Kennedy listened to the director’s pitch and then spoke the line Jewison repeated to me all those years later: “Timing is everything.” It was 1967. The civil rights struggle was in full swing.
And both Kennedy and Jewison believed that the picture could make a difference. So many of Jewison’s movies did. The director started in television, helming TV movies and specials (most notably, 1962’s “The Judy Garland” show), before Tony Curtis gave him a break that led to a contract at Universal.
The San Francisco 49ers are headed back to the Super Bowl, and they’ll have some very famous stars cheering them on to victory.
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In The Heat Of The Night and Moonstruck, has died at the age of 97.The news was shared by his publicist Jeff Sanderson yesterday (January 22) that Jewison died “peacefully” last Saturday (January 20) at his home in Los Angeles.Jewison’s stirring 1967 racial drama In The Heat Of The Night won the Oscar for Best Picture, and Jewison himself was nominated for Best Director.He would receive two further nominations, for 1971 musical Fiddler On The Roof and 1987 romantic comedy Moonstruck. He later won the Academy’s prestigious Irving G.
to The Hollywood Reporter. Born in Toronto in 1926, Jewison got his start in the business directing television musical spots. In 1958, he directed “Your Hit Parade” for CBS, then directed “The Andy Williams Show,” two Harry Belafonte specials, and and award-winning Judy Garland specials.After moving into the movie industry, he became a seven-time Oscar nominee.
Norman Frederick Jewison, acclaimed and incredibly versatile director of In the Heat of the Night, Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck, died peacefully Saturday, January 20, 2024 at home at the age of 97.
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