Sidney Poitier

...208 pages; $26). A touching evocation of the life of the Collyers, the famous New York City brothers and hoarders. I Am Not Sidney Poitier, by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press; 234 pages; $16 paperback). Everett takes his title...

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...a Premier League game in 1996 but performed so badly he had to be taken off again. - American David Hampton claimed he was actor Sidney Poitier's son to gatecrash a nightclub party in New York in 1983. From then on, he began using "David...

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...a Hot Tin Roof, likes to be anonymous. He thinks of himself as a "journeyman actor", quietly muddling along. "Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I...

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...teaches Whites compassion, folklore-like lessons and other doses of emotionality (think Hattie McDaniel in Gone With The Wind, Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones, or, a recent example, Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty). With all of that...

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See A Patch of Blue (1965), staring Sidney Poitier who by that time was already a seasoned actor. Recall that Poitier only two years earlier, he was the first Black actor to win an academy award for his role in (white) Lilies in the Field,...

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...heart go pitter-pat. But we've got some important additions to Life's list of the Sexiest Men of the '50s, '60s and '70s: Sidney Poitier. Serious actor? Of course. Stone-cold fox? Yup. His omission is criminal! Serge Gainsbourg. You...

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...potent music career. Even more surprisingly, he says that when he was starting out, his goal wasn't to be an Eddie Murphy or Sidney Poitier, but Lionel Richie, the durable king of easy listening. Like Richie, Foxx has his eye on large...

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...that's alright--the 20% of the public who, according to Gallup, identify as liberal have a 'president' they can fantasize in--I know, Sidney Poitier was too old, but at least this guy sort of reminds them of him. "They call me Mr. President."

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...to make and take the creative decisions away from commercial-minded studio execs. When Edward was 68 years old, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand made waves with their First Artists Production Company, pledging the same...

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...to ethnic diversity? Fifty-six honorary DeMille Awards have been bestowed since 1952. Only one has gone to a person of color (Sidney Poitier); 46 have gone to men. See the full list here. At least they're not going to bestow this one to...

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