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Director Sidney Lumet died yesterday. He was 86. This prose-poem will not tell you chapter and verse about his legendary career which, if you don�t know it, you can read about it. Lumet's published memoir about his life in film, Making Movies (1996), is "extremely light-hearted and infectious in its enthusiasm for the craft of moviemaking itself," writes film-historian Stephen Bowles, "and is in marked-contrast to the tone and style of most of his films.1

The tone and style of Lumet�s films is serious, honest, and passionate. He was a master of social realism and of portraying morally complex American life and its drama.-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 10 April 2011 and Stephen E. Bowles, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, The Gale Group Inc., 2001.

Perhaps if I made films, Sidney,
I would make them light-hearted
and infectious like your memoir.
My memoir was serious, honest
and full of the complexity of our
modern world-----like your films.

I must say, Sidney, that I hardly even
knew you��I�ve been busy myself
as far back as you were working for..
CBS directing hundreds of episodes of
Danger(�50��55), Mama (�49��57) and
You Are There(�53-�57)�..I won�t follow
your career until your death yesterday,
but I would like to know if you ever met
any Baha�is in NY in your many decades.
You are, arguably, in that land of light &
you will, also arguably�continue to play
with light, character, & condition humaine1
in that new country, that oh so mysterious
Kingdom to which you winged your way!?!*2

1 The phrase �the human condition� in French
2 �Abdul-Baha, Memorials of the Faithful, Wilmette, 1975(1971), p.134 and p.158.

Ron Price
10 April 2011
SIDNEY LUMET DIES LIGHT UPON LIGHT!?