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I waited for he breakdown.Ninety-seven percent say you got yourself a new star").Norman's Doubts About His Own Fading Career:Norman begins o experience mixed feelings about his protege, sensing that her burgeoning film and musical career will leave him far behind:It's all yours, Esther.It's "seven-thirty" in he dark room as Amanda (Katharine Hepburn) sets the tray on the corner of the bed where her husband Adam (Spencer Tracy) is still sleeping.The musical was budgeted at $703,000 (estimated), mostly because the three production numbers that comprised the last 30 minutes of the film each cost about $10,000/minute, and each of them lasted at least 12 minutes (the length of a reel of film)...you don't have to bow down to nobody")Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier), a strong black convict, cooly defiant, incarcerated for assault and battery - for almost beating a white man to death when a gun was pulled on him; in the ruck, he was singing the blues classic spiritual "Long Gone"; once married with a 5 year-old child when he left home, he was often angered that he was always told to "Be nice"When Jackson ordered the "nigger" to shut up, Cullen lashed back: "You call me nigger again, Joker, and I'm gonna kill ya!" Just then, their truck was sideswiped and crashed over a guard rail barrier.