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Credit: Rick Diamond, Getty Images for Sunshine Sachs & Associates Oprah Winfrey and Sidney Poitier attend the historic opening of the new, 30-acre Tyler Perry Studios facility in Atlanta. Register below (if you haven't already), and insert the caption! Then, check out more photos from the event here. -- Geoffrey Bennett ... Source: forums.audioreview.com --- 6 days ago
I'd been hearing about this film for years and I finally went out and bought it. A boy of strange birth, leaves home to wander the earth at 16. He only returns to Alabama suddenly and mysteriously when a relative or friend dies. He knows without being told when loved ones are gone before they... ... Source: www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com --- 14 days ago
Oscar-winner Sidney Poitier’s ex-mistress Diahann Carroll claims in her new book that the actor was a cad who prompted her to divorce her husband to be with him, and later double-crossed her. Carroll is the Bronx-born beauty who made history as TV’s first black sitcom star in “Julia”. Titled “The Legs Are the Last to Go”, her [...] ... Source: www.tmz.com --- 24 days ago
Filed under: Wacky & Weird He's an 81-year-old Hollywood legend -- so if Sidney Poitier wants to wait in the middle of the street for his car, Sidney Poitier is going to wait in the middle of the street.... Permalink ... Source: www.people.com --- 1 day ago
Winfrey, Sidney Poitier and sports legends all help open his film and TV center ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 11 days ago
Houston girl held in plan to kill family Teenager is in custody on charges of shooting her brother to death. She tells police she was unable to carry out plot to murder her parents. Coming soon: "The Defiant Ones" with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis. Above, Diana Day Humphries, 16, breaks into tears as she meets her mother at a Houston jail. Diana was a brilliant teenager, a 16-year-old Houston high school senior with an IQ of 142. One of her teachers said she was "destined for success" and that was true until the day she decided to kill her... ...
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Tyler Perry unveiled a new multimillion-dollar TV and film studio Saturday on 30 acres in southwest Atlanta. His renewed commitment to the city came after he once flirted with departing. Perry said he had considered leaving Atlanta for good after neighbors complained about noise and traffic at his old studio in a neighborhood close to downtown. "Even though it was a studio there for 15 years, there was a lot of resistance in everything I was doing," Perry said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press earlier in the week. "I was thinking about leaving at one point, but this is home for me." His new Tyler Perry Studios contains more than 200,000 square feet of studio and office space in an area that once housed Delta Air Lines' finance, reservation and computer center. It was vacant when Perry found it. The guest list included Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, Hank Aaron and Whitney Houston. R&B singer Mary J. Blige was to perform. Perry, 39, said the studio features five sound stages that will be named after Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Cicely Tyson - with one still unnamed. He will shoot his TBS sitcoms "House of Payne" and "Meet the Browns" along with other film projects at the studio. Perry said he knew the new location would be an improvement. His old building was on property zoned commercial, but the street next to it is residential. "I knew spiritually I was ... Source: www.charlotte.com --- 5 hours ago
Tyler Perry unveiled a new multimillion-dollar TV and film studio Saturday on 30 acres in southwest Atlanta. His renewed commitment to the city came after he once flirted with departing. Perry said he had considered leaving Atlanta for good after neighbors complained about noise and traffic at his old studio in a neighborhood close to downtown. "Even though it was a studio there for 15 years, there was a lot of resistance in everything I was doing," Perry said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press earlier in the week. "I was thinking about leaving at one point, but this is home for me." His new Tyler Perry Studios contains more than 200,000 square feet of studio and office space in an area that once housed Delta Air Lines' finance, reservation and computer center. It was vacant when Perry found it. The guest list included Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, Hank Aaron and Whitney Houston. R&B singer Mary J. Blige was to perform. Perry, 39, said the studio features five sound stages that will be named after Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Cicely Tyson - with one still unnamed. He will shoot his TBS sitcoms "House of Payne" and "Meet the Browns" along with other film projects at the studio. Perry said he knew the new location would be an improvement. His old building was on property zoned commercial, but the street next to it is residential. "I knew spiritually I was in the ... Source: fvkeller.squarespace.com --- 22 days ago
This evening at 7:00PM Bullseye Drive-In Theater presents In the Heat of the Night. Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier are compelling as an unlikely crime-fighting pair in this five-time Oscar winning (including Best Picture) murder mystery set in a steamy southern town. (Run Time: 1:50:03) Click to read the 1967 critic’s review by Bosley Crowther , of The New York Times … ...
Source: www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com --- 12 hours ago
No mainstream media outlets -- People, CNN -- even mentioned the WGA protest. And Barack Obama, though invited, did not attend the gala Atlanta event at Tyler Perry Studios. Here's who did: Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett Jr, Holly Robinson Peete, Tracey Edmonds, music mogul L.A. Reid, singer John Legend, baseball legends Hank Aaron [...] ... Source: theybf.com --- 19 hours ago
The YBF stars came out to help Tyler Perry celebrate his grand opening of his movie and tv studio in Atlanta. Huge move for him and the black community. Of course Mr. Smith was there. So were Oprah and Stedman. But then she busted out crying with Sidney Poitier. Lots more pics when you read the rest… The men came [...] ... DIAHANN CARROLL DISHES ON Poitier IN NEW BOOK: Actress' tell-all details drama during pair's affair.
Source: blogs.tampabay.com --- 17 days ago
Mr. Holland? Albus Dumbledore? How about Yoda? Entertainment Weekly has put together a pretty eclectic photo list of its top educators from film and television, along with brief explanations for each. Some are obvious, like Robin Williams' John Keating from Dead Poets Society and Sidney Poitier's Mark Thackeray from To Sir, With Love. Others are inspired and offbeat, like Ray Walston's Mr. Hand from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. As with every list, there are the notable absences. Where's Gabe Kaplan's Mr. Kotter, for one? And what about Ben Stein's nameless economics teacher (above) from Ferris Bueller's Day Off? When you say movies and teachers, don't you just start thinking, "Bueller? Bueller?" * ...
Source: www.journalstandard.com --- 15 days ago
The Leadership Institute Alumni Association of Northwest Illinois will host Tommy Lee Hayes-Brown, a nationally known motivational speaker, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, in Freeport. Hayes-Brown’s program entitled, “One person can make a difference,” is funded by the Dorman-Korf Leadership Endowment and the Highland Community College Foundation. Hayes-Brown has always been driven by community service and has led a number of community service programs. He has been named “Mentor of the Year” in Charlotte, N.C. for a local program he started in collaboration with MetLife Auto & Home® and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. He has dined with Oprah Winfrey and Sidney Poitier to discuss Poitier’s autobiography “The Measure of a Man.” And Hayes-Brown has an inspiring story of his own to tell in that he and his wife adopted three children before giving birth to their fourth. Making it Real Michelle Vietmeier, a member of the Leadership Institute Alumni Association, said the presentation will encourage people to take personal responsibility and ownership to develop themselves. The session will also focus on planting a seed with young people while encouraging them to make a difference by becoming volunteers in the community. “Our youth are our future, and he has a special way of getting that message across,” Vietmeier said. A morning session on Sept. 23, 2008, at Freeport’s junior high school will focus on AVID students and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of ... Source: www.boxxet.com --- 14 days ago
Australia - Throw in a lesbian FBI agent (played by Sidney Poitier's daughter), a new talking car (Val Kilmer slumming it as the voice of nu-KITT) and a cameo from ... Original story at Daily Telegraph . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Val Kilmer . ... Source: www.boxxet.com --- 16 hours ago
Written by L.S. Hollywood icons such as Sidney Poitier, Cicely Tyson, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett Jr. attended along with Oprah Winfrey, Hank Aaron, Andrew Young, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett, and Barry Bonds commemorated the opening of the first major ... Original story at The Maven Report . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Barry Bonds . ... Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 14 hours ago
Stedman Graham (left), Cicely Tyson, Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee were among stars at the moving opening of the Tyler Perry (right) Studios in Atlanta over the weekend. Fireworks kicked off Saturday night’s festivities as Oprah Winfrey (center), Louis Gossett... ... Find more results for Sidney Poitier on RSSMicro.com |
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Oprah Winfrey brought both Stedman Graham and Gayle King to the opening gala for Tyler Perry's new movie and TV studio in Atlanta on Saturday night. While Oprah is dealing with a defamation lawsuit from the former headmistress of her South African Girls school, it was the history-making event that had Oprah so emotional. Tyler is the first African-American to own his own studio and there were a few tears in the crowd as he took the stage to announce that he's named three sound-stages after the legendary actors Ruby Dee, Cecily Tyson and Sidney Poitier. Sidney was there to accept the honor, saying , "I spent 56 years making movies and this is the reward that I have that means the most to me." With a supportive crowd including Will Smith, John Legend and many others, it was truly an event worth celebrating. To see 30 photos of the event, including Star Jones, Kirk Franklin and Patti LaBelle just read more ...
Tyler Perry's crisp white tuxedo was a bold choice of attire at the opening of his new studio Saturday night, when the mogul was dodging the worst of his fired former writers' union-busting accusations reported here last week . The WGA came through with its picket line on behalf of Kellie Griffin, Christopher Moore, Teri Brown-Jackson, and Lamont Ferrell — the House Of Payne Four whom Perry allegedly let go for their attempts to unionize the show's writing staff. One reported list of attendees had Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Sidney Poitier and several illustrious others crossing the picket line Saturday night, while the WGA sent word late Saturday that a second protest was planned for another, smaller event at Perry's Atlanta mansion on Sunday morning. So what does it all mean besides Oprah scabbing her way to free drinks and having a drunken Madea-Off with Poitier and Ruby Dee? Nikki Finke evidently thinks this will have some bearing on the presidential race ; more usefully, she also passed along an open letter from a small army of showrunners including Tina Fey, Mad Men creator Matt Weiner and TV legend Larry Gelbart: This season, scripted television programming will consist of about 150 shows employing 1,200 writers. Of that universe, 149 shows and 1,193 writers will produce shows covered by the Writers Guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement. The MBA guarantees minimum compensation, residuals, health coverage, and pension in addition ...
Jammed amid the fall film fest fandango — including Fantastic Fest, the Austin Asian American Film Festival and Austin Film Festival — is the fifth annual Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival , Oct. 3 and 4 at the Alamo South. Small in scope, huge in heart, the fest focuses on films that “promote community awareness of the capability of people with disabilities.” Previous films include “Coming Home,” “The Best Years of Our Lives” and “My Left Foot.” This year’s movies are the Oscar-winning “A Patch of Blue,” starring Elizabeth Hartman as a blind girl, with Sidney Poitier and Shelley Winters, and “Music Within,” with Ron Livingston. Full details HERE . ...