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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20220107 23:56:15

Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20220107 23:56:15
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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20220107 23:57:00

dignity of every human being. reporter: the son of a bahamian tomato farmer, he lived a life of firsts. the first black man to win an oscar for best actor and one of the first black people to become a true hollywood star among the greatest of all time. we have lots and lots and lots of of african-american actors. now, when we didn t have any, i appeared not because i brought so much because but because the time was right. reporter: but his career almost ended before it ever began. as a teenager, portier auditioned for the american negro theater but he was quickly thrown out because he couldn t read. he was tone deaf, and he had a thick bahamian accent. he says you are no actor. we got next to the door. he opened it, pushed me out, and slam. a determined portier would spend months perfecting his

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20220107 23:51:00

just see themselves as requiring special treatment or deserving of special treatment and i think the public tolerance for that is really, really low, and getting lower by the day. a hearening on novak djokovic s appeal of the cancellation of his visa is scheduled for monday in australia and he is not getting a lot of sympathy from fellow tennis star rafael nadal, who told reports djokovic was aware of the vaccine requirements for months, that he quote made his own decisions and there are consequences. wolf. there rrnl certainly are. brian todd reporting for us. just ahead, the world pays tribute to the legendary activist sydney portier who died yesterday at the age of 94. we ll be right back. (music quieter)

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20220107 23:58:00

acting skills and modifiling his speaking voice. his hard work would pay off in a big way. i was right. i know i was right. reporter: in the 1950s, he appeared in that aror more than a dozen film upons beginning with no way out and an oscar nominated performance in the defiant ones. however, it was his portrayal of a former gi in the 1963 movie lilies of the field that earned him the coveted oscar for best actor. portier never overcame his tone deafness, limb-syncing the song amen in the famts lily scene. the song writer actually it the singing. portier was considered a ban bankable star in 1967 starring in a land mark film to sir with love. those kids are devils incarnates. i tried everything. reporter: playing characters that would force audiences to confront racial prejudices. they call me mr. tibbs.

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