Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award October 18, during the 44th Chicago International Film Festival’s Black Perspective Tribute. Poitier’s extraordinary career will be celebrated with a selection of film highlights and an intimate oneon- one conversation with special guest interviewer Linda Johnson Rice, president and CEO of Johnson Publishing Inc.
Janet Jackson r has been hospitalized after falling ill shortly before a concert in Montreal. (Sept. 30)