Word: poitier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story that this trio have concocted for us seems like a typical Hollywood melange of free association, plagiarism, and stupidity. Sidney Poitier plays Warren Stantin, an FBI agent (you can tell because of the huge letters "FBI" on his windbreaker) who is tracking a fiendish kidnapper from the streets of San Francisco to the Great White North of Canada...
...network news reports but also a sought-after guest on TV talk shows. CBS's 60 Minutes has shot a segment on the maverick educator, and Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to his life story ("six figures," plus a percentage of the net, for Joe), with Sidney Poitier as a possible star. "Isn't it something," Clark beams, "that this little black Newark welfare boy is the most popular man in America right...
...American family -- an American family -- and if you want to live like they do, and you're willing to work, the opportunity is there." Others rush to the show's support. "One of the unfortunate things about television is that the black middle class is never seen," says Sidney Poitier. "We see an awful lot of guys pushing dope on street corners." For Anne Roiphe, co-author of Your Child's Mind, the show's idealized picture of family life is healthy for both blacks and whites. "The show demonstrates what Americans wish the world was like," she says. "This...
...film industry. Camille Cosby, wife of Comedian Bill Cosby, owns the rights to Winnie Mandela's autobiography and plans to produce a TV movie about her. The Mandelas figure prominently in an ABC-TV historical mini-series, still in the works, which has excited the interest of Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte and Jane Fonda. Three theatrical movies probing racial conflict in South Africa are on the way. The first and most prestigious of the three is Cry Freedom, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi). Due in early November, it explores the friendship between Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), the black leader...
None of the celebrities, who filed jointly with their wives, were accused of any wrongdoing. But they may still have to pay huge sums in back taxes, penalties and interest. Sidney Poitier ended up with questionable deductions of $500,757, Michael Landon with $1 million, and his former Bonanza co-star Lorne Greene with $333,838. Producer Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family, has to answer for $1.5 million. CBS Chief Executive Laurence Tisch's deductions amounted to $1.1 million, while his brother Preston, the U.S. Postmaster General, benefited from a $480,508 write-off. The biggest...