Word: poitier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then, at breakfast on the Thursday before the gala, Jay told Mavis, "Guess who's going to be on the show tonight? You are." Her first ("and last," she adds) appearance gave the event the final push it needed. Lionel Richie opened. Lily Tomlin joked. Marlo Thomas introduced. Sidney Poitier spoke. All the Judds came. Jay's stand-up was funny but surprisingly emotional when he came to Mavis. In a roomful of women, he said, it was embarrassing that "the only one crying...
...cause you're going to have to learn how to do this,'" Winfrey recalls. "And I remember thinking, 'Don't need to watch Grandma, because my life isn't going to be like this.'" Watching Diana Ross and the Supremes preening glamorously on The Ed Sullivan Show or Sidney Poitier stepping out of a limousine on Oscar night in 1961 made her fantasies seem possible: "I was thinking that could...
...first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...
...stake in then troubled Disney, pocketing a reported $50 million for himself in the process. His work with Disney helped him befriend Hollywood heavyweights like Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz, and in 1994 he joined the Beverly Hills crowd by buying the old estate of actor Sidney Poitier. In 1989 he helped finance a $3.65 billion leveraged buyout of Minnesota-based Northwest Airlines, investing about $12 million of his own money. Today much of his fortune is based on the 11.4 million shares he holds in the company...
...Send your contributions to the Save Sidney Poitier's Career Foundation. The Oscar-winner plays the large but completely unremarkable role of the fatherly Agent Preston. Sidney, baby, what's a nice actor like you doing in a turkey like this? Sic the Jackal on your agent...