During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...

Eddie Murphy revealed during an interview for the Apple TV+ documentary “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood” (via Entertainment Weekly) that Sidney Poitier advised him not to ...

On Friday, Apple TV+ will debut “Sidney,” a documentary that reflects on the legacy of Sidney Poitier, an actor whose career paved a path for Black actors and filmmakers and galvanized viewers. In a ...

Tony Curtis (left) and Sidney Poitier in director Stanley Kramer's "The Defiant Ones." (Courtesy United Artists/Photofest) Whenever someone’s doing something radical, we’re always going to hear from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eddie Murphy was warned by Sidney Poitier not to star in “Malcolm X.” During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call ...