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The Latest Breaking News from Sidney Poitier

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

It deserves a close textual analysis.

Creative Bloq

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.

BANG Premier

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

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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.

Al Jazeera

“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

Guitar World

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 Conversation

‘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?

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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 - US

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Cinemablend

32 Actors Who Made Remarkable Career Comebacks

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

Marie Claire

32 of the Most Iconic Hollywood Friendships

Some have been going strong for decades.

Cinemablend

32 Hollywood Stars That Lived To Be More Than 90

Here are 32 beloved Hollywood stars who lived to be older than 90.

Cinemablend

I Don't Think We Talk Enough About Paul Robeson (And What He Brought To The Film Industry)

Paul Robeson was a true Renaissance Man. Here are a few of the movies that I think more people should be talking about.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Ian McKellen's thrilling new show is just the kind of innovation the Evening Standard Theatre Awards celebrate

Our annual celebration of theatre is packed with fresh takes and new stories

The Guardian - UK

Cry, the Beloved Country review – utterly absorbing tale from the birth of apartheid

Zoltan Korda’s 1951 adaptation of Alan Paton’s crusading novel is filled with passion and moral fortitude

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