#Hollywood mourns loss of young starlet tv

'The grace and class that this man has shown throughout his entire life, the example he set for me, not only as a black man but as a human being will never be forgotten. all I can tell you is that my heart broke in another place,' filmmaker and actor Perry wrote. Now, to wake up this morning to a call that Sidney Poitier has passed away. I had no idea she would pass away shortly thereafter. 'Around this time last year Cicely Tyson was releasing her book and promoting it. Blessings to Joanna and his world of beautiful daughters.' He had an enormous soul I will forever cherish. The utmost, highest regard and praise for his most magnificent, gracious, eloquent life.

#Hollywood mourns loss of young starlet tv

'For me, the greatest of the 'Great Trees' has fallen: Sidney Poitier,' TV host and actor Winfrey wrote. Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry praised the actor effusively. Our innocence.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. I suspect it's innocence itself that we feel is under siege. What's more likely is that these films reflect broader worries - about the world's complexity, about dangers outside the home, and even sometimes inside it. That is a subtext in some of the films, but extrapolating it to all of them doesn't really make sense. It's tempting, though probably unfair, to see all of these stories of familial loss as echoes of a nation's losses during an unpopular war - America's children dying, their parents powerless to protect them. Now, it's hard to imagine that anyone in Hollywood expects to make a fortune on this particular message - 'Our children are dying would you like a jumbo popcorn with that?' People have to have a reason to buy tickets, after all, so this message must resonate at present, or it wouldn't be surfacing in so many places. Grief over a child's death also tears a marriage apart in Reservation Road, leaves parents shattered in Into the Wild, diminishes a whole community in Gone Baby Gone. In In the Valley of Elah, finding a killer occupies the police after a young soldier's death, but in terms of the story, police work takes a back seat to parental recrimination. Not just for the death or disappearance, but for the damage done to the family that's been left behind. Each is about loss, and with a striking consistency, about holding someone accountable for that loss. None of these fall films is about heroism. This is not, let's note, the usual stuff of cineplex entertainment, where screenwriters place children in jeopardy simply to give heroes a chance to prove they're heroic. They're anguished parental figures, desperate to make sense of the senseless - and, like the father who dogs the police investigating the Reservation Road hit-and-run that has killed his son, they're desperate to get someone in authority to listen. They worry about a baby who's kidnapped from a hospital (in Eastern Promises) and a young man who commits suicide (in Wristcutters: A Love Story).

But she could easily stand in for all the rest, and for other guardians in movies this fall. It's a demonstrably unfit mom - she's a druggie and a thief - sobbing for the 4-year-old whose kidnapping drives the plot of Gone Baby Gone, a crime drama opening this week. In all these pictures, parents are left wondering what happened, begging for the return of their children. In Into the Wild, a college kid disappears shortly after graduation, and in In the Valley of Elah, a young serviceman disappears after he returns from Iraq. In Gone Baby Gone, a child goes missing in Reservation Road a child is killed. and in In the Valley of Elah, where Tommy Lee Jones is the parent demanding accountability with help from Charlize Theron's detective.