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Tuesday 13 sepTember 2022
For Oprah Winfrey, 'Sidney' is an act of love for Poitier

By JAKE COYLE 'Sundays with Sidney,'" says
AP Film Writer Winfrey. "He was my person.
TORONTO (AP) — Oprah He was my guy. He was my
Winfrey was discussing her friend and my brother."
profound affection for trail- Hudlin, the director of
blazing actor Sidney Poitier "House Party" and the Thur-
— a longtime friend and good Marshall drama "Mar-
mentor to her — when she shall," estimates he had
was overcome by emotion completed about 90% of
during an interview on the the interviews on the film
upcoming documentary " when Poitier died.
Sidney," a life-spanning por- "Whatever pressure I was
trait. She plunged her head putting on myself basi-
into her hands and cried, "I cally doubled," Hudlin
just love him so much." said. "There was a disap-
Denzel Washington, Spike pointment to know that
Lee, Morgan Freeman, he would never see it, but
George Nelson, Robert I was glad at a time when
Redford and Halle Berry everyone wanted to touch
were all interviewed in "Sid- him and connect with him,
ney," and their reflections we would have this movie."
on the iconic performer This image provided by AppleTV shows Sidney Poitier in “Sidney,” premiering Sept. 23, 2022 on Interviews with Poitier were
and civil-rights activist are Apple TV+. Apple TV+ via Associated Press conducted earlier, sepa-
often illuminating. But "Sid- rate of the film, before the
ney" means something paved the way for count- for me for him," Winfrey said through as a Black enter- star's health deteriorated.
intensely personal for Win- less Black actors in Holly- as tears again welled up. "I tainer. But the footage of Poitier
frey, a producer on the film. wood and single-handedly don't know why I'm break- "During the early days of speaking directly to cam-
"I was trying not to lose it, revolutionized how they ing down. My opportunity navigating fame and all era, and hearing that voice
actually, because my love were portrayed on screen. to do this was my offering that comes with fame, be- narrate his life story, makes
for him is as deep and as Directed by Reginald Hud- to him." ing assaulted on all sides by for one last chance to be
strong as for any human lin, "Sidney" was made with Winfrey has said her life was Black people, white peo- in his regal presence. Poiti-
being I know," Winfrey said the cooperation of Poitier's irrevocably altered when ple, people saying you're er, born in the Bahamas,
in an interview at the To- family. Much of it had been she saw Poitier become the not this or you should be talks about how his young
ronto International Film Fes- completed before he died first Black performer to win doing that, he was the per- identity was forged without
tival, where "Sidney" pre- in January at the age of 94, best actor at the Academy son I turned to," said Win- racism's influence. It wasn't
miered Saturday. "He was including his interview with Awards (for 1963's "Lilies in frey. until he left for Miami at 15
my adviser, my counselor, Winfrey. the Field"). A life in show "He said, 'It's always a strug- that he encountered it.
my friend, my comfort, my But the loss of Poitier — business suddenly became gle and a challenge when "I left the Bahamas with
balm, my joy." whom Winfrey at the time attainable to her. They later you're carrying other peo- this sense of myself," Poitier
"Sidney," which Apple TV+ of his death called "the met for the first time when ple's dreams.'" says in the film. "And from
will premiere Sept. 23, ar- greatest of the 'Great Winfrey's talk show was tak- It was the first of many con- the time I got off the boat,
rives eight months after Trees'" — has made "Sid- ing off. Poitier was one of versations over the years. America began to say to
the death of Poitier, the ney" only more poignant. the few who could under- "Remember 'Tuesdays with me, 'You're not who you
groundbreaking actor who "The film is an act of love stand what she was going Morrie'? I could have done think you are.'"q
William Klein, American photographer in Paris, dies at 96

half of the 20th century, has had his first solo exhibition of Paris, London and Rome in
died at 96. paintings in Brussels in 1951, 1956 and won the Nadar
Klein died Saturday in Paris, and another in Milan a year Prize the following year. He
his son, Pierre Klein, said in a later. In 1954, he turned his published other photo dia-
statement Monday. attention to photography ries of other cities, Rome in
Born in New York City in after meeting Alexander 1959, Moscow and Tokyo in
1926 to Hungarian Jewish Liberman, the artistic direc- 1964, and Paris in 2002.
parents, Klein grew up in tor at Vogue, and began a He was also a noted film-
Manhattan and studied so- 10-year collaboration with maker, producing several
ciology at the City College the magazine. documentary and feature
of New York. After serv- During the same period, he films throughout his career,
ing in Europe with the U.S. created a ground-break- addressing topics like the
Army during World War II, ing photographic diary of fashion industry, the war in
he moved to Paris to study his native New York, titled Vietnam and famed boxer
painting under the G.I. Bill. "Life is Good & Good For Muhammed Ali.
Klein met and married You in New York." The book Klein first ventured into cin-
Jeanne Florin, a model and featured Klein's unconven- ema in 1956, when Italian
This photo provided by William Klein's family shows a self-por-
trait of American photographer William Klein in1993, painted by painter, soon after his arriv- tional use of wide angles, director Federico Fellini,
the artist on a contact sheet. al in Paris. The couple lived contrasts in composi- impressed by Klein's raw
Associated Press together in France until her tion and unusual framing, images of New York City
death in 2005. which came to define the street life, had asked him to
PARIS (AP) — William Klein, traiture style strongly influ- Klein, who studied briefly still-nascent genre of street work on his 1957 film "Nights
an American photogra- enced fashion and street with French painters Andre photography. of Cabiria," about a prosti-
pher whose innovative por- photography in the second Lhote and Fernand Leger, The book was published in tute in Rome.q