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The Oscar winner’s candid, entertaining memoirs unveil the man behind the icon, from his rivalry with Harry Belafonte to Poitier’s struggle to live up to his own legend.
No one can deny that the Oscars are the most prestigious awards someone working in the film industry can win and some winners have stood out as the greatest of all time. Millions of viewers around the ...
Although Poitier wasn’t ready to leave his wife for Diahann Carroll, his affair would eventually lead to the end of his 15-year marriage to Juanita Hardy. In 1965, Poitier and Hardy called it quits.
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Eddie Murphy is opening up about some advice Sidney Poitier once gave him that left him surprised. “They were talking about doing Malcolm X,” Murphy recalled. “Norman Jewison was putting it ...
While Washington was later cast (and Oscar nominated for) the role of the titular civil rights icon in Lee’s “Malcolm X,” Murphy added that he wasn’t quite sure what Poitier meant by the ...
Eddie Murphy Reveals the Oscar-Winning Movie Sidney Poitier Warned Him Not to Star In: ‘You Are Not Denzel’ “You are a breath of fresh air, and don’t f–k with that!” the acting legend said ...
When reflecting on why Poitier saw him as a different type of actor to his peers, Murphy said: “I was in uncharted waters. For Sidney and all those guys, when I showed up, it was something kinda ...
Eddie Murphy has shared the advice Sidney Poitier gave him after he was approached to star in the 1992 film Malcolm X. Murphy, 63, who shot to fame on Saturday Night Live before establishing ...