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PATRICK MARMION: When Hollywood executives tried to compel Sidney Poitier to sell his soul, they failed to convince him to part
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April 28, 2023
MARMION PATRICK: Retrograde is a mystery. Ryan Calais Cameron's witty new play may have been titled The Last Temptation Of Sidney Poitier. In Tinseltown's moral desert, he's a Jesus figure, who was put to the test by the Devil. We find ourselves in Mr Parks' 1950s Hollywood king-maker's office, where the young actor is set to begin signing a deal that will make him a megastar. The hitch is that he's got to sign an oath renouncing his Left-wing roots and friendship with Communist sympathiser and legend Paul Robeson. It's just badinage and bourbon to begin, with the fear that either Parks or Bobby (the maker of a television film starring Sidney) will make a hideously racist blunder.