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Could "Precious" director break Oscar barrier?
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Oscars aren't about celebrating diversity. That job falls to more special-interest kudos-fests including the NAACP Image Awards, the Imagen Awards, the GLAAD Media Awards and the Multicultural Motion Picture Assn.
People:Denzel Washington Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris Jason Reitman Sidney Poitier Christopher Nolan
2010-01-11
Denzel Washington wields Bible in "Eli"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Denzel Washington's latest role in "The Book of Eli" has him playing a wanderer in a nuclear war-ravaged America who leans on his Bible for guidance, and the actor says if he was in that situation, he'd do exactly the same.
People:Denzel Washington Sidney Poitier Source:(Reuters)
2010-01-10
New photo exhibit pictures black America in racially riven US
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A week and a day after Barack Obama was sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States, Larry Owens lingered on photos at an exhibit on black Americans in racially riven 20th-century Washington.
Nations:U.S. People:Sidney Poitier Barack Obama Activities:Vietnam War Source:(AFP)
2009-01-30
Kennedy Center honors Streisand, Freeman, Daltrey
WASHINGTON - Barbra Streisand is visiting the White House on Sunday but says she'll play nice. "Art," she says, "transcends politics this weekend."
People:Morgan Freeman Pete Townshend Roger Daltrey George Jones Laura Bush B.B. King
2008-12-07
Danny Glover's slavery film lacked "white heroes", producers said
PARIS (AFP) - US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes.
Nations:Venezuela France U.S. Japan People:Sidney Poitier Harry Belafonte Angela Bassett Hugo Chavez Wesley Snipes Don Cheadle
2008-07-25
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