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Article: Cinematic titans Burt Lancaster and Sidney Poitier top latest wave of celebrity biographies.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- April 19, 2000
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S Fame can be fleeting, now more than ever. But even when the movies have all been made and the box-office tallies forgotten, some stars endure. That's one lesson of two very different celebrity books now in stores.
Kate Buford's "Burt Lancaster: An American Life" ($27.50, Knopf) is a comprehensively researched study of one of postwar America's biggest stars, the leonine athlete whose lovemaking with Deborah Kerr amid the swirling surf of "From Here to Eternity" is among the most romantic images of the 20th century. Sidney Poitier, the only African-American yet to win a Best Actor Oscar, has penned his second memoir, "The Measure of a Man" ($26, ...