Norman Jewison, director of Moonstruck, In the Heat of the Night, dead at 97
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Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director, whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies to social dramas, has died at age 97.
Jewison died "peacefully" Saturday, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson. Additional details were not immediately available.
The frequent Oscar nominee and Toronto native was known for stirring up controversy with his introspective films, addressing civil rights issues and religion in works such as In the Heat of the Night and the film adaptations of Fiddler on the Roof and Jesus Christ Superstar.
"I have tended to show humanity as fallible, sensitive, befuddled, misled but redeemable, rather than mindless, relentlessly violent," he wrote in his 2004 industry-themed autobiography, This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me.
"I want people to recognize themselves in the movies I make. I don't enjoy no-brainer action movies."
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