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Poitier. he was my generation�*s sort of icon. there was no one really before him who had the kind of stature and i was a really little kid when he started working in the movies but what was amazing about him was that he was of a generation, the last of the great powerhouse generation, kirk douglas died i think last year, but he was in that generation. charlton heston, burt lancaster, sidney poitier and tony curtis. this kind of generation that came out of theatre in the 1950s and late 1940s, ...
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