From Sir, on Love

   "Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure." 

 

Mark Thackeray

played by Sidney Poitier

To Sir, With Love (1967)

 

 



By the way . . . who knew that James Clavell wrote the screenplay, directed & produced this movie?  Not me, that's who.  And who knew that there was a sequel (To Sir, With Love II, 1996)?  Well, I guess I did, since I remember watching part of it on tv, but I didn't remember that until I saw the mention of a sequel on the internets, so it must not have been too damned memorable.
 
Further by the way . . . I have been meaning to read James Clavell's Shōgun for a long time now.  I watched a little bit of it when it came out on tv as a mini-series (between September 15 and September 19, 1980, at which time I was working as a telephone solicitor for DialAmerica; I was fired on my second night because I'd only sold one magazine subscription--the only job I've ever been fired from.  I blame James Clavell), and I tried to watch it again fairly recently but was so grossed out--I am pretty sure it had something to do with someone peeing on someone else--that I didn't get very far.
 
And that's how you get from nuptials to pindering.  No, no, no . . . thank you.