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...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...
...star in nine movies and his real-life love for more than 20 years, until his death in 1967. The evening featured her new documentary on Tracy (which will be on PBS this week). Following the recollections of such Tracy admirers as Frank Sinatra, Robert Wagner and Sidney Poitier, the 76-year-old Hepburn grinned broadly as she read off a list of Tracy's attributes, recorded when he first entered the academy: "Proportions -- good. Physical condition -- very good. Personality -- sensitive but masculine...
...Beverly Wilshire Hotel ballroom was filled by the 755 people who attended the $200-per-plate benefit. Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman were among those Hollywood notables on hand for the fete...
...dance routines. Next, omit acting, plot line and subtlety. Add violence to taste, Presto. You have concocted Fast Forward, this month's feeble effort at capturing on screen the ambitions and frustrations of those crary, but immensely talented, kids just have to dance. The only prestige that Director Sidney Poitier lends the film is his name in the credits. It becomes obvious, however, that it is not enough merely to import a big name to ensure cinematic success...