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PHOTOS: Life and career of Sidney Poitier: Legendary actor, film director, and diplomat, Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE, has a historic career in Hollywood ...
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PHOTOS: Life and career of Sidney Poitier
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Shoot to Kill: The Best 80s Action Movie You Never Saw: 1988's Shoot to Kill, starring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Clancy Brown and Kirstie Alley ...
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Shoot to Kill: The Best 80s Action Movie You Never Saw
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The Director Who Was Never as Famous as His Movies: In the Heat of the Night. Moonstruck. Fiddler on the Roof. The late Norman Jewison’s films were wildly ...
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The Director Who Was Never as Famous as His Movies
Quick Glance: Filmmaker Norman Jewison Dies at 97
  • Norman Jewison, one of Hollywood's most eclectic directors, died at 97, leaving behind a legacy of diverse films and remarkable performances from actors such as Sidney Poitier and Cher.

  • Over his four-decade career, he directed hit movie musicals, romantic comedies, and crime dramas, often exploring social issues and working with a range of talented actors.

  • Nominated three times for the Best Director Oscar, he was known for directing milestone films such as 'In the Heat of the Night', 'Fiddler on the Roof', and 'Moonstruck'.

  • Described as 'a gadfly among directors', Jewison made a wide variety of films, from the Cold War satire 'The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming' to the post-Vietnam War drama 'In Country'.
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Sidney Poitier Made a Buddy Cop Movie That Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes: 1988's Shoot to Kill is a buddy cop movie starring Sidney Poitier ...
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Sidney Poitier Made a Buddy Cop Movie That Has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
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Hotel workers protest at the foot of Sidney Poitier Bridge over stalled negotiations for a proposed eight percent salary increase.
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Juvenile arrested in shooting outside Manchester High School: Investigators determined that the suspect and the victim had arranged to meet at Manchester High ...
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Juvenile arrested in shooting outside Manchester High School
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Veterans Day 2023: 15 Black Celebrities Who Served In The Military: From Sidney Poitier to Sheryl Underwood, this list of men and women are not only talented ...
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Veterans Day 2023: 15 Black Celebrities Who Served In The Military
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10 War Movie Actors Who Actually Served In The Military: Many actors from great war movies once served in the military, and some of them even had the same ...
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10 War Movie Actors Who Actually Served In The Military
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Ending the writers' strike, 'Schindler's List' and Sidney Poitier : A reader suggests a way to end the writers' strike; contemplating "Schindler's List" and ...
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Ending the writers' strike, 'Schindler's List' and Sidney Poitier
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10 Actors Who Starred in More Than One Great Movie in the Same Year: From Jim Carrey to Meryl Streep, these 10 actors had one year where they were just on fire ...
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10 Actors Who Starred in More Than One Great Movie in the Same Year
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Governor General Sir Cornelius Smith today named 101 Bahamians as recipients of the Special Golden Jubilee of Independence Award “in recognition of their ... Show more
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How No Way Out Established Sidney Poitier's Career: No Way Out gave Poitier his big break while also setting the tone for the rest of his career.
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How No Way Out Established Sidney Poitier's Career
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Sidney Poitier made history #OnThisDay in 1964 after becoming the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Lilies of the ... Show more

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‘Sidney’ Director Reginald Hudlin Talks About Enduring Impact Of Sidney Poitier: ‘Sidney’ documentary director Reginald Hudlin talks about the enduring impact of ...
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‘Sidney’ Director Reginald Hudlin Talks About Enduring Impact Of Sidney ...
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Retrograde sharply skewers race and power in Hollywood's Golden Age: This witty drama about Sidney Poitier's rise to stardom confirms Ryan Calais ...
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Retrograde sharply skewers race and power in Hollywood's Golden Age
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Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier's Western Was Revisionism Done Right: Sidney Poitier's Buck and the Preacher is a powerful, essential statement of ...
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Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier's Western Was Revisionism Done ...
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Get On Up: The Triumph of Black America review – David Harewood’s interviews are puzzlingly shallow
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Get On Up: The Triumph of Black America review – David Harewood’s ...
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Postmodernism meets pulp fiction: Dr. No, by Percival Everett, reviewed: Perhaps Percival Everett’s The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year ...
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Postmodernism meets pulp fiction: Dr. No, by Percival Everett, reviewed
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Lorraine Hansberry was the first Black woman author to have a play on Broadway. "A Raisin in the Sun" opened on March 11, 1959, starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee ... Show more

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Buck and the Preacher review – Poitier and Belafonte are a dream team in breezy western
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Buck and the Preacher review – Poitier and Belafonte are a dream team in ...
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On his birthday, we take a moment to remember the life and work of Sidney Poitier 🕊🎥

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In honor of Sidney Poitier's birthday, we take a look back at his legendary film career. Which role is your favorite? https://imdb.to/3Z0VRxz

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The FBI’s Persecution of Sidney Poitier: A Rolling Stone FOIA request has unearthed the FBI’s files on the trailblazing icon, targeted for a program that brought ...
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The FBI’s Persecution of Sidney Poitier
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Biggest Stars Who Served in the Military for World War Two: The Second World War saw numerous actors sign up to serve, despite many not even needing to ...
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Biggest Stars Who Served in the Military for World War Two
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Jonathan Majors' Earliest Roles Were Heavily Impacted By Sidney Poitier's Advice To Denzel Washington
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Jonathan Majors' Earliest Roles Were Heavily Impacted By Sidney Poitier's ...
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Today marks the first anniversary of Sidney Poitier's death. The Bahamian-American actor broke through racial barriers as the first black winner of the ... Show more

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Today we take a moment to remember the life and work of Sidney Poitier 🕊🎥

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Most Notable Deaths of 2022 in Hollywood: The Hollywood Reporter is highlighting some of the most well-known names in Hollywood and the entertainment world who ...
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Most Notable Deaths of 2022 in Hollywood
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Maxi Jazz: Faithless singer died at the age of 65.: Maxi Jazz, singer of the band Faithless, died on Friday at the age of 65. With hits like "Insomnia" the band ...
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Maxi Jazz: Faithless singer died at the age of 65.
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A Local’s Tour of the Bahamas—Beyond the Resort Bubble : Nassau, the island nation’s capital, richly rewards those who veer off the tourist trail—just ask Sidney ...
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A Local’s Tour of the Bahamas—Beyond the Resort Bubble
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 7 Documentaries to Watch: Documentaries provide an easy and important way to celebrate the life of a civil rights icon.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 7 Documentaries to Watch
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We take a moment to reflect on Sidney Poitier, Olivia Newton-John, Queen Elizabeth II, and many more who left us in 2022 ti.me/3icwUj5
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Celebrity Deaths of 2022: Bob Saget, Sidney Poitier, Ronnie Spector: Scroll through to remember the musicians, actors, performers and entertainers we lost in ...
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Celebrity Deaths of 2022: Bob Saget, Sidney Poitier, Ronnie Spector
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Watch: A Tribute to Those We’ve Lost in 2022: As 2022 comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect on those who left us in the past year.
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Watch: A Tribute to Those We’ve Lost in 2022
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As 2022 comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect on Sidney Poitier, Olivia Newton-John, Queen Elizabeth II, and many more who left us in the past year ... Show more
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The 9 Best Movies Of 2022: From dramas and comedies to documentaries and satires, 2022 was a banner year for Black cinema, offering a wealth of Black stories.
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The 9 Best Movies Of 2022
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20 Fresh Sidney Poitier Movies: The groundbreaking actor's biggest movies, including In the Heat of the Night, Lilies on the Field, Sneakers and more.
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20 Fresh Sidney Poitier Movies
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Basel - Poitier, Poetry, Pop in Pastel: Film: Stadtkino Basel with film series on South Korea, Marguerite Duras and a pioneer in Hollywood
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Basel - Poitier, Poetry, Pop in Pastel
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Blue Ivy Buys an $80,000 Pair of Diamond Earrings at Auction: Beyoncé and Jay Z's daughter Blue Ivy bought an $80,000 pair of diamond earrings at the Wearable ...
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Blue Ivy Buys an $80,000 Pair of Diamond Earrings at Auction
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‘Auntie Will Never Retire’: Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph of Abbott Elementary sits down with Sam Sanders at Vulture Festival to discuss her the ups and downs of ...
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‘Auntie Will Never Retire’
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These celebrities died in 2022: Sidney Poitier is one of the celebrities who died in 2022. In this overview we remember well-known personalities.
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These celebrities died in 2022
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In Memoriam: remembering the great personalities lost in 2022. We have said goodbye to a number of cultural legends this year such as Sidney Poitier ... Show more

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Test your (arcane) knowledge: It’s trivia quiz time: This is the annual After-Christmas-Trivia Game, invented by my predecessor and going on...
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Test your (arcane) knowledge: It’s trivia quiz time
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Danielle Deadwyler, Gina Prince-Bythewood Among Honorees At Star-Studded Gotham Awards
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Danielle Deadwyler, Gina Prince-Bythewood Among Honorees At Star-Studded ...
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Sidney Poitier Set By Gotham Awards For Posthumous Icon Tribute: The Gotham Film & Media Institute has set the late actor, filmmaker and activist Sidney Poitier ...
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Sidney Poitier Set By Gotham Awards For Posthumous Icon Tribute
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Celebrity deaths of 2022: Hollywood icons, rock legends: Bob Saget, Sydney Poitier, Meatloaf, Takeoff, Taylor Hawkins, Naomi Judd and Ray Liotta are among the ...
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Celebrity deaths of 2022: Hollywood icons, rock legends
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Reginald Hudlin: Hardest Part Of Making ‘Sidney’ Was "Mourning" What Didn't Get In -- Contenders New York
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Reginald Hudlin: Hardest Part Of Making ‘Sidney’ Was
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‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’: Elvis Mitchell on Exploring the Golden Age of Black Cinema
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‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’: Elvis Mitchell on Exploring the Golden ...
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Blue Ivy Buys an $80,000 Pair of Diamond Earrings at Auction: Beyoncé and Jay Z's daughter Blue Ivy bought an $80,000 pair of diamond earrings at the Wearable ...
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Blue Ivy Buys an $80,000 Pair of Diamond Earrings at Auction
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What Sidney Poitier stood for: Burdened by the expectations of black people around the world, the Oscar-winning actor embodied grace even under fire.
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What Sidney Poitier stood for
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Black enough for me: Two critics discuss ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’: Filmmaker Elvis Mitchell talks about his new Netflix documentary with Globe film ...
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Black enough for me: Two critics discuss ‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’
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Apple TV+ Raises Its Subscription Price For The First Time Since Launch: The price of a monthly Apple TV+ subscription has increased from $4.99 to $6.99.
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Apple TV+ Raises Its Subscription Price For The First Time Since Launch
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Political trailblazer Sylvia Poitier, Broward’s first Black commissioner, dies at 87
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Political trailblazer Sylvia Poitier, Broward’s first Black commissioner ...
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Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV Plus, Apple Music: Apple is hiking fees for the Apple Music and Apple TV+ subscription services for the first time. In the U.S. ...
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Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV Plus, Apple Music