The year 2022 saw many of our most treasured luminaries dim and disappear from our firmament. Through the years I have interviewed many of those who passed, leaving lasting memories of our brief time together.
I remember Sidney Poitier, who retained his elegant gravitas even as he aged. He told me that when he was still a teen he was working as a dishwasher but wanted to be an actor. The problem was that he couldn’t read very well.
“I began reading everything I could get my hands on, mostly newspapers. I was working in a restaurant washing dishes, and after 10 o'clock the restaurant closed, and we cleaned up. One old Jewish waiter saw me every night, night after night, reading the Journal American or one of the newspapers of the day.
