We Need the Eggs

I hesitate to make this blog a love letter to Bobby Darin, but surely you understand the reasons for my fascination. Even if you wouldn’t use the word ‘love,’ I hope you would at least acknowledge his enormous contribution to music and film. He easily transition from teen idol/singer/romantic comedy actor to serious actor. In my favorite of his dramatic films, “Pressure Point,” he plays opposite the always brilliant Sidney Poitier. Poitier plays a prison psychiatrist who must counsel a very disturbed, bigoted, American-Nazi (Darin). It’s a serious and gutsy performance for Darin and especially for a film made in 1962. Darin defends the importance of his role and this movie in an article he wrote for Ebony magazine entitled, “Why I Played a Film Bigot.” Directed by Hubert Cornfield and co-starring Peter Falk.