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EXPLAINED: Sidney poitier | Rare Historical Photos

Retrograde review – newcomer Donné Ngabo is dazzling as Sidney Poitier in this taut drama

Ryan Calais Cameron’s play dramatises a real meeting the film star had in the 1950s that became a moral reckoning

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3 new to Prime Video thriller movies to stream this week — and one of them is a mobster movie almost as iconic as ‘The Godfather’ (May 5-11)

Prime Video is a great place to watch engaging thriller movies, and I've picked out the latest and best new arrivals on the platform.

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‘How can I do better?’: Michael B Jordan’s Oscar win for Sinners is a deserved reward for an outstanding actor

From The Wire to Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, the Academy award winner has amassed a body of work that straddles commercial and critical success

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Who Was the First Black Person to Win an Oscar? Hattie McDaniel’s Legacy

Discover the powerful story of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940. From a segregated ceremony to Sidney Poitier’s historic win.

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I Love The Movie Sneakers, But It Kind Of Ruins The Big Reveal At The End

Not enough secrets.

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Donald Trump's response to Sydney Sweeney's controversial jeans ad is a literary masterpiece

It deserves a close textual analysis.

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Damson Idris gets his love of smart clothes from his mother

Damson Idris has revealed how his love for "luxurious" fashion dates back to his mother dressing him in a suit to celebrate his birthday as a child.

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David Oyelowo: ‘My wife and I made the decision early on never to be apart for longer than two weeks’’

The actor, 49, tells Hayley Myers about his royal heritage, earliest memory, hard times in a hostel, four gifted kids and what happened when he met Sidney Poitier

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Eddie Murphy says Sidney Poitier urged him not to star in Oscar-nominated film

‘I didn’t know if it was an insult or a compliment,’ actor said on confusing career advice

The Independent UK

Number One on the Call Sheet review – a spectacular tribute to black excellence in Hollywood

Jaw-droppingly star-studded and stuffed with incredible stories, this series is a joy to watch. Just wait till you hear the one about James Brown burying bags of cash in the woods …

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Retrograde; Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors – review

Ivanno Jeremiah rivets as Sidney Poitier in Ryan Calais Cameron’s electrifying McCarthy-era three-hander. Plus, a strenuously madcap vampire spoof

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Malachi Kirby’s cultural highlights

The writer and actor on his secret food obsession, Lessons in Chemistry on TV and the best place in London for a nap

The Guardian - UK

For Black families in Altadena, history and community burned alongside homes

A standout for Black generational wealth, the Los Angeles county town also was home to creatives and leaders from Octavia Butler and Sidney Poitier to Eldridge Cleaver

The Guardian - US

‘Why shouldn’t power be Black’? How Miriam Makeba won and lost the US

The Black South African singer defied the odds to become a household name in the US. Then she was cancelled.

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“David Bowie asked me if I wanted to go out to dinner with John Lennon! I had a big ‘dilemma’ moment; I was hearing certain musical things in my head. I didn’t wanna go out and lose myself”: Carlos Alomar on making Fame, Heroes – and Bowie’s Berlin era

The former David Bowie guitarist talks Young Americans, Station to Station and the Berlin Trilogy, plus recording (and co-writing) Fame with John Lennon

The Conversation

What James Earl Jones can teach us about activism and art in times of crisis

The death of James Earl Jones has forced me to consider the end of an era.

The Guardian - UK

‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood

He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?

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Louis Gossett Jr obituary

American actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman

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Louis Gossett Jr: king of Hollywood’s strong, silent types, from Roots to The Color Purple

The Oscar winner was a trailblazer who was happy to share the spotlight – and part of a disappearing class of Black acting nobility

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: The Holdovers and the best films about teachers

From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema

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Lulu: ‘David Bowie got me. Part of me thinks: what if the relationship continued?’

The stentorian Scottish pop singer, actor and TV staple answers your queries about Eurovision glory, nibbling biscuits with the Who, and flying high with Take That

The Guardian - UK

Don Warrington: ‘If I could have my time again, I’d be braver’

The actor, 72, tells Michael Hogan about the amazing success of Death in Paradise, meditation and money, prejudice in acting, the worst job he ever had and his problem with hats

The Guardian - UK

Norman Jewison obituary

Director best known for In the Heat of the Night, who saw film not only as entertainment but as a vehicle to confront racism and other socio-political issues

The Guardian - UK

Norman Jewison: a staggering array of work from Hollywood’s master craftsman

The virtuoso Canadian helped craft much of postwar Hollywood cinema, directing Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, Topol in Fiddler on the Roof and Cher in Moonstruck

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32 Actors Who Made Remarkable Career Comebacks

Here's a list of several actors who made remarkable career comebacks.

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