On this day in 1964 Sidney Poitier was the first ever black Actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor. The oscar was for his role in the film Lilies of the Field. More than an actor (and Academy-Award winner), Sidney Poitier is an artist. A writer and director, a thinker and critic, a humanitarian […]
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When Steve Jobs passed away on the 5th of October this year, the world saw hundreds of thousands grieving for the great innovator, while detractors took the opportunity to revile him as a sweatshop-using megalomaniac. (I think the timing could have been better managed, regardless of the validity or not of such statements.) I admit that […]
