During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...

Throughout February, the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Somerville Theatre and the Somerville Cine-Club will screen Poitier classics, including "In the Heat of the Night," "Lilies of the Field" and "A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In No Way Out—directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who co-wrote it with Lesser Samuels—Luther Brooks (Poitier) has just become the ...

It started with Norman Brokenshire. As a young man from the Bahamas, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier had a thick accent, which prevented him from landing regular roles. And so he spent his nights ...

Sidney Poitier was a man who didn't mince words. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was ...

Sidney Poitier, who became the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Miss Chicago (Andre Deckmann) presents the Silver Bear Award to Sidney Poitier, named as "Best Actor of ...

Sidney Poitier was not expected to live. He was born two months premature to uneducated tomato farmers in the Caribbean. His father planned to use a shoe box as a makeshift coffin. Poitier's rise from ...

"I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment," Murphy says in the new Apple TV+ documentary 'Number One on the Call Sheet' Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Eddie Murphy made his mark on Hollywood by being ...

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Sidney Poitier received virtually every showbiz award possible: An Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe, plus Life Achievement Awards from AFI, BAFTA, NAACP Image Awards, SAG and Kennedy Center Honors, to name ...

"Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment, or something," he begins. "It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and ...