1980’sStir Crazywas comedy nirvana: Slightly raunchy, definitely un-PC and very, very funny.
The man behind the mirth?Sidney Poitier, whodied Friday at age 94.
The director’s chair revealed Poitier’s gift for old-school physical gags.
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(Pryor and Wilder’s arrest stems from mistaken identity due to giant chicken costumes.
“A more assured job,” Roger Ebert wrote of the second.
“He’s more concerned with getting on with the slapstick.”
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