R.I.P. SIDNEY POITIER.

He played Thurgood Marshall in the vastly underrated docudrama Separate but Equal, which miffed my old lawprof Charles Black a bit — he was jealous that Thurgood got Poitier to play him, while for Charlie Black they cast an actor who looked just like him. Charlie didn’t live to see Thurgood played by Chadwick Boseman in Marshall, which would have just rubbed salt in the wound. . .