January 22, 2024 @ 4:06 PM
Cher, that won a Best Starlet Oscar for the 1987 movie “Moonstruck,” on Monday gave thanks to the movie’s director Norman Jewison “for one of the greatest, happiest, most fun experiences of my life” and created “farewell sweet prince,” on X.
Jewison, whose several movies consisted of the 1971 music “Fiddler on the Roof” and 1967 Finest Picture-winning dramatization “In the Heat of the Night,” passed away on Saturday at age 97. The starlet and vocalist provided Jewison with his DGA Life time Accomplishment honor in 2010.
Lee Grant likewise gave thanks to Jewison for being just one of the initial supervisors to cast her after the blacklist. Her duty “In the Heat of the Night” contrary Pole Steiger and Sidney Poitier reignited her profession, resulting in her Finest Sustaining Starlet Oscar for 1975’s “Shampoo.”
“Norman Jewison is a giant and I am in his debt,” Grant tweeted on Monday. “He gave me back a career at the end of the blacklist. I doubt there has been a more versatile director before or since. A huge hearted man and truly unique talent. Nothing I say here can do him justice. But I can say ‘Thank You.’”
Movie doubter Richard Roeper name-checked 1965’s Steve McQueen movie The “Cincinnati Kid, “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Moonstruck” and the 1999 boxing biopic “Hurricane” starring Denzel Washington in his homage on X: “Among many other fine films, Norman Jewison directed one of the best gambling films of the 1960s, two of the best musicals of the 1970s, one of the best rom-coms of the 1980s and one of the best biopics of the 1990s. Rest well and thank you, good sir.”
The filmmaker, that was birthed in Toronto, Canada, was likewise kept in mind as “national icon, brilliant storyteller, passionate humanitarian, steadfast mentor” by the Canadian Movie Centre, which Jewison established in 1988.
The company’s tweet string wrapped up, “His legacy will live on through his timeless films and the countless individuals and organizations he has inspired, and will continue to inspire, for generations to come. His spirit will forever be the heart of the Canadian Film Centre. #ThanYouNorman.”
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