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”).
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