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Article: A. S. DOC YOUNG: Actor Sidney Poitier and Other Matters of Fact and
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
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- December 15, 1994
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A. S. Doc Young
Los Angeles Sentinel
12-15-1994
A. S. DOC YOUNG: Actor Sidney Poitier and Other Matters of Fact and. Opinion
If ever there was a "black Horatio Alger" story, it was and is all about Sidney Poitier, the Academy Award-winning actor who has been named to the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company, the international film-making giant. Fact is, someone should make a movie based on the life of this man who rose from humble birth in Miami, Fla. to achieve unprecedented success and fame in the industry, not only as an actor but also as a director and executive producer of his own pictures.
In this country, thank heaven!, there is no royalty. But, nevertheless, Sidney Poitier ...
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