And I was kind of afraid because the other kids in the film all came from acting school and I was a singer and had never acted a day in my life, so it was all very daunting. His carriage was rather regal, and he was very tall – I’m only five feet, so you had to sort of crane your neck to speak to him. I was terrified! His reputation quite clearly preceded him, and when you come into contact with an energy like that… the word that jumps to the front of my mind is dignity - he exuded dignity. I’d had quite a few hit records and I was definitely living in Lulu-land - I thought I was the bee’s knees until I got there, and realized I was in the presence of somebody very special. When did you first meet Sidney Poitier? You were very young when you made the film. But the conversation was not maudlin in the slightest: She’s Lulu, after all, and there are casual mentions of going to a Bowie concert with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe and having dinner with Tom Jones, and words cannot come close to conveying how inviting and infectious her laughter is, even over Transatlantic Zoom. Now 73, Lulu’s fascinating history is detailed at length in her two autobiographies, but she was kind enough to spend a half hour over Zoom with Variety from London talking about Poitier, who passed away last week, and Bowie, who died five years ago Monday. She sings the title track for the animated feature “My Old School,” which premieres virtually at Sundance this week.
Along the way she’s sung a James Bond theme - “The Man With the Golden Gun” - had hit singles with Elton John, Bobby Womack and a British chart-topper with Take That had one of her compositions covered by Tina Turner (“I Don’t Wanna Fight”), and much more. charts and was a Top 10 hit across Europe of course the song, which Bowie originally released in 1970, became globally known when covered by Nirvana in 1993. While her chart successes cooled toward the end of the ‘60s, she had variety shows on British television - where she featured artists like Jimi Hendrix - was married to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, and had a mid-‘70s chart comeback under the aegis of David Bowie, who produced her 1974 cover of is song “The Man Who Sold the World,” which hit No. Sidney Poitier Documentary in Production at Apple, Oprah Winfrey Attached as Executive Producer
Why Sidney Poitier Is the Most Important Actor in American History
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Sidney Poitier: A Movie Star Who Burned Bright Enough to Change the World She was steered to top chart success by Marion Massey, one of the first female managers in the business (and mother of current Arista Records CEO David Massey), enjoying a string of British chart hits through the 1960s - and a U.S. Though just 18 at the time, Lulu (real name: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) was already a major pop star in Swinging London-era Britain, with a powerhouse voice that got her discovered at the age of 15. The legendary Scottish singer Lulu has had a career that’s spanned six decades and is still, as she says, “smashing it onstage.” But she is most associated with a song and a film that she made when she was a teenager: the 1967 Sidney Poitier-starring classic “To Sir, With Love.” The film depicted Poitier as a British Guyanese teacher at a tough East London school and the ensuing racial issues, and featured Lulu not just as a student in his class but also singing the title song to him in a pivotal scene at the end.
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