Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up from the NRAA.net Studios in New York.

Standby for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition.

On this Wednesday, I watched an interesting piece of history last night in the form of

the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

The classic star is Catherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as liberal parents, who are facing

their daughter wanting to marry a black man in the fast-changing 60s.

Based by Stanley Kramer, the film was nominated for Best Picture, but lost to another race-themed

movie in the heat of the night.

Incredibly, Sidney Poitier appeared in both films, and was nominated for Best Actor for

Playing, Detective Virgil Tibbs in Heat.

Poitier lost to Rod Steiger, who played the racist sheriff in that crime drama.

Previously, Poitier had won the Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field.

Now what strikes me 55 years after both heat and gas were made is the anti-racist messages

that were so finally crafted and I believed moved audiences all over the world.

In gas, Spencer Tracy is phenomenal.

He was dying during the shoot, and everybody knew it.

Tracy passed away two weeks after the film wrapped.

His monologue at the end crushes bigotry in a way seldom seen.

Many Poitier was so enthralled with Tracy, he couldn't remember his lines and had to

reshoot his dialogue after the acting legend left the set.

The point here is that most Americans are not racist and will respond to please for fairness

and unity.

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