RIP Norman Jewison Oscar-nominated film director and
producer Norman Jewison, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the
Night” to a best picture Oscar and also helmed such popular films as
“Moonstruck,” “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” and “The
Thomas Crown Affair,” as well as film musicals “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Jesus
Christ Superstar,” died January 20th at his Los Angeles home. He was
97. He was born Norman Frederick Jewison on July 21, 1926, in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. He was a producer on 1974’s “Billy Two Hats” starring Gregory Peck and
Desi Arnaz Jr.
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