Six Degrees of Separation
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:19:03
- They never mentioned you.
- What'd they say?

:19:06
"We know the son of Sidney Poitier,
barrier-breaker of the '50s and '60s"?

:19:12
Your father means
a great deal in South Africa.

:19:15
I'm glad of that. Dad and I went
to Russia once, to a film festival.

:19:18
He was amazed how much
his presence meant.

:19:21
No, no. Tell us stories of movie stars
tying up their children, being cruel.

:19:27
- I wish.
- You wish?

:19:30
If I wanted to write a book about him, I
really can't. No one would want to read it.

:19:35
He's decent, and I admire him.
:19:36
Oh, he's married to an actress. She was
in... um... um... She's white. Am I right?

:19:42
That's not my mother. It's his second wife.
He met Joanna making The Lost Man,

:19:46
and left my mother, who'd stuck by him
in the lean years. I had just been born.

:19:51
The Lost Man is the only film of my
father's I can't bring myself to see.

:19:56
- I'm so sorry. We didn't mean...
- No, no, no.

:19:58
We're all good friends now, his kids
from that marriage and us - the old kids.

:20:07
I'd love to get into that kitchen.
:20:11
- What should we do?
- It's Geoffrey's only night in New York.

:20:15
- I vote to stay in.
- Good!

:20:18
We moved into the kitchen.
:20:25
- We watched him cook.
- We watched him chop.

:20:27
He did a sort of wizardry.
Leftovers. Onions.

:20:30
- (Ouisa) Peppers.
- Tuna. Olives.

:20:32
- (Ouisa) Ajar of sun-dried tomatoes.
- It was wonderful.

:20:35
- So, you're from...?
- Johannesburg.

:20:41
My dad took me to a movie
shot in South Africa.

:20:45
The camera moves from
this vile rioting in the streets

:20:48
to a villa where people picked
at lunch on a terrace.

:20:51
The only riot, the flowers and the birds.
Gorgeous plumage and petals.

:20:57
I didn't understand.
:20:59
Dad said to me "You meet these young
blacks who are having a terrible time."


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