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Article: To Sidney Poitier, with love: A "Life' award

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March 11, 2000
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To Sidney Poitier, with love: A `Life' award

We can think of few, if anyone, who deserves it more. Mark March 12 down as a red-letter day for Hollywood -- and for the charming, talented and artistic actor Sidney Poitier -- the only African American to ever win a Best Actor Oscar. He will be bestowed with the Screen Actor's Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award, at the Shrine Exposition Center on Sunday in Los Angeles.

With a body of work that would make even the most jaded Hollywood-watcher swoon, Poitier has come a long way from the son of threadbare Bahamian tomato farmers who could barely speak the English language to a king of the silver screen who recently became his ...

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