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Black History Month
The Collegian
page 4 • February 14, 2007
Parents influence success of noted film actor
Poitier recognized asfirst black to win best acting Oscar
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tative of the values 1 hold dear.
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carryovers from the lives of my
parents.”
Source: Biography Channel, www.
biography.com
In 1958, Poitier starred alongside
Tony Curtis in The Defiant Ones, which
earned both men an Oscar nomination for
Best Actor.
While two leads getting nods in the
same category for the same film is a rare
occurrence, this marked the first time a
black man received an Oscar nomination.
After receiving acclaim for The Defi-
ant Ones, Poitier acted in Raisin in the Sun
on Broadway in 1959 and in turn starred in
the film adaptation in 1961.
He made history for the second time
in five years when he was nominated for
and won the Best Actor award for Lilies.
The film, which received four addi-
tional Oscar nominations, featured Poitier
South Campus
Feb. 15 Professionals in mental, physical
and medical health will discuss issues that
concern the black community in the Health
and Wellness Forum. The event will be in
the South Campus Student Center, 12:30-2
p.m. For more information, contact Zeb
Strong, South Campus director of student
activities, at 817-515-4553.
Sidney Poitier
Actor
as Homer Smith, a construction worker
who helps European nuns build a church
in the middle of the desert.
1967 brought two of Poitier’s most fa-
mous films. The first, Guess Who’s Com-
ing to Dinner, was a milestone film for
its depiction of racial relations and preju-
dices.
In the film, Poitier plays a successful
young doctor who meets a woman, played
by Katharine Houghton, and goes home to
meet her family.
Her parents, played by Katharine
Feb. 19-21 The Pathway to Freedom trav-
eling exhibit is a reminder of the pain,
sacrifice and legacy that men and women
from the Underground Railroad and the
Civil Rights Movement made to American
history. The exhibit will be on display in
the South Campus Student Center Faculty
Dining Room (SSTU 1112). Exhibit hours
are 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Feb. 21 Featured speaker L. Clifford from
Davis Elementary School will share de-
Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, object, based
almost solely on his race.
The second 1967 film that brought
Poitier attention was In the Heat of the
Night. The film, about a Pennsylvania
police detective who investigates a murder
in a racist Mississippi town, introduced
Poitier’s most memorable character, De-
tective Virgil Tibbs.
Tibbs, passing through Sparta, Miss.,
after visiting his mother, gets mistaken by
the town’s police chief as the perpetrator
of a recent murder. After being treated
Feb. 27 In Sankofa Men, an open discus-
sion forum, Clarence Glover will challenge
black males to rediscover their maleness
by learning and celebrating certain time-
honored African principles. The presenta-
tion will be in the Student Center 12:30-2
Friday
Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Dinner 4-11 p.m.
Bar open until midnight
Hours of operation
Monday-Thursday
Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Dinner 4-10 p.m.
Bar open until 11 p.m.
SE Campus
Feb. 22-23 Pathway to Freedom is a trav-
eling art exhibit designed to show the sur-
vival of blacks from slavery through the
Civil Rights Movement to the present day.
Visitors can view the exhibit in the Main
Commons Thursday 8 a.m.-lO p.m. and
Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Feb. 26 Sankofa, an ensemble of TCC
students and employees, will interpret the
evolution of African-American dance, fea-
turing African, modem, jazz and hip hop
styles in the SE Campus North Ballroom
noon-1:30 p.m.. David Gilden is a musi-
cian of the West African karp-lute (or the
Kora). Gilden will perform West African
music while accompanied by two West Af-
rican drummers. The event includes lunch
and refreshments.
Jesse Owens, track and field star, be-
came the first athlete to win four gold
medals in one Olympiad during the
1936 games in Berlin.
Wilt Chamberlain was the first bas-
ketball player to score 100 points in a
single game and the first player in the
NBA to score 30,000 points.
Hank Aaron, baseball player, broke
Babe Ruth’s record in 1974 when he
hit his 715th home run, totaling a re-
cord-breaking 755 in his career.
Michael Johnson, known as the fastest
man in the world, is the first man to
win the 200-meter and the 400-meter
races in the same Olympic game in
1996. He has won five Olympic gold
medals and broken numerous world
records.
Wilma Rudolph, track star who had
polio as a child, broke world records
in three Olympic events and in 1960
was the first American woman to win
three gold medals at the Olympics.
Whitney Houston, singer, songwriter
and actress, set a record with Guin-
ness World Records as being the most
awarded female artist of all time. She
had seven consecutive No. 1 singles
and in 1987 was the first female to
debut at No. 1 in both the United
States and United Kingdom.
topped with fried egg, grilled ham
and a bearnaise sauce with red-
eyed gravy ($6).
I tried the eatery during a
lunch date with my husband. The
mid-day starters include chipotle
chicken quesadillas with roasted
red peppers, caramelized onions
and tomatillo cream sauce ($8).
Saturday
Lunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dinner 4 p.m.-11 p.m.
Bar open until midnight
Sunday
Lunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dinner 4 p.m.-9 p.m.
Bar open until 10 p.m.
p.m. For more information, contact Zeb
Strong at 817-515-4553.
Although I would never waste
time eating just a salad at a soul
food cafe with so many hearty op-
tions available, the salad choices
on the menu did indeed tempt me,
especially the Chip Chop Salad
($7). Romaine lettuce topped with
blue cheese crumbles, red onion,
apple-wood smoked bacon and ja-
lapeno ranch dressing sounds like
salad heaven.
Instead, I opted for the house
specialty: chicken and waffles
($10). I almost didn’t want dessert
after consuming the perfectly sea-
soned fried-chicken (topped with a
heap of fried sweet potato threads),
spicy collard greens and blueberry-
laced waffles.
My husband tried the fried
catfish with hushpuppies ($9) but
switched the side of collard greens
for cabbage and traded the candied
sweet potato coulis for fried pota-
toes and onions.
The flavors at Ovation are
slightly different than typical soul
food seasonings. Instead of ham to
flavor the greens, turkey is used.
The sides also had more of a pep-
pery, tangy taste like a Louisiana
style dish.
Speaking of bayou, Keith’s
gumbo ($14) is offered on the din-
ner menu and combines shrimp,
by Jay Yaws
reporter
They call him Mr. Tibbs.
Bom prematurely Feb. 20, 1927, while
his mother was en route from the Bahamas
to Miami, Sidney Poitier would become
the first black actor to win a lead acting
Oscar, in 1963 for Lillies of the Field.
Poitier’s film debut was in 1950s No
Way Out, playing the role of a surgeon
who has to operate on an avid racist.
His breakthrough role, however, came
in 1955. At 27, he played a high school
student in the film Blackboard Jungle, op-
posite Glenn Ford. This performance gar-
nered Poitier critical acclaim and brought
more roles his way.
Feb. 28 African Americans and Dance—A
Historical Narrative will highlight dance
and the people who have impacted enter-
tainment. The program will be 10-11 a.m.
inWSTU 1303-1305.
Feb. 16 In The African Diaspora, Myrtle
Freeman, South Campus government in-
structor, will lead a panel discussion on
current issues as well as with problems
in the African Diaspora. She will share
a video and focus on the conflict in Dar-
fur, Sudan. The presentation will be in
the SSTU Texas Room, 12:30-2 p.m. For
more information, contact Freeman at 817-
515-4638.
tailed information on black history and
the experiences of the past in Children’s
Story Time. The event will be in the South
Campus Student Center 10-11 a.m. For
more information, contact Leo Parish 817-
515-4994.
Ovation
6615 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste. 112
817-732-8900
NW Campus
Today Pathways to Freedom ends its run
on NW Campus. The traveling exhibit of
32 pieces of art depicting the survival of
blacks from slavery to present day is cur-
rently in WSTU 1303-1305 from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Michael Jackson, singer and
songwriter, holds the title of
Most Top 10 Singles from an album
(Thriller) and the Most No. 1 Singles
from an album (Bad). He won a re-
cord-breaking eight of the 12 Gram-
my Awards that he was nominated for
in 1984 and is a double inductee into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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It doesn’t matter who
you are, where you come
from. The ability to tri-
umph begins with you—
always. ”
— Oprah Winfrey
Feb. 23-24 Delta Silhouettes Program,
a theatrical performance will highlight
the cultural and historical contributions
of black women. This series was created
by Fort Worth native Charlene Ayers. The
event will be 6-7 p.m. in the Perform-
ing Arts Center. Contact Annie Dobbins,
counselor, at 817-515-4558 for more in-
formation.
Beyonce Knowles, singer, songwriter
and actress, became the first black
woman to win the ASCAP Pop Music
Awards for Songwriter of the Year
in 2001. In 2003, she set the record
for the longest run on the Billboard
Hot 100’s No. 1 spot with “Crazy in
Love” and “Baby Boy.”
harshly and enduring racist comments
from the chief, played by Rod Steiger,
Poitier delivers a line that has achieved
classic status. When asked what people
call a “black boy like you” back home, he
replies, “They call me Mister Tibbs.”
In the Heat of the Night spawned two
sequels and a television series and earned
Rod Steiger an Oscar for his performance.
Poitier has tried his hand at directing
a handful of films, the most famous being
the Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder vehicle
Stir Crazy. Up until 2000’s Scary Movie,
Stir Crazy was the highest grossing film
directed by a black man.
In 1974, Poitier was appointed Knight
Commander of the Order of the British
Empire. Having citizenship in the Ba-
hamas, a British Commonwealth realm,
Poitier was eligible for knighthood and
bears the title Sir Sidney Poitier, which he
does not use.
In recent years, Poitier has taken
fewer roles, having last acted in the 2001
TV movie The Last Brickmaker in Amer-
ica.
Poitier was not the first black per-
former to receive Oscar recognition. Hat-
tie McDaniel made history in 1940 when
she won Best Supporting Actress for Gone
with the Wind.
Dorothy Dandridge became the first
black actress to be nominated in a lead
role, receiving a nomination for Carmen
Jones.
James Baskett was technically the
first actor to receive an Oscar, gamering
an honorary award for his role in Disney’s
controversial Song of the South in 1948.
However, Poitier’s Oscar for Lilies of
the Field is noteworthy because he was the
first black actor to actually win an award.
With actors Morgan Freeman, Jamie
Foxx, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington
all winning acting Oscars within the past
10 years, Poitier and his colleagues have
left a legacy in the filmmaking world.
Photo by Robert Nemiroff
Sidney Poitier, left, and Claudia McNeill as Walter and Mama Younger in the origi-
nal Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
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by Susan Tallant
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In the past when I got a han-
kering for breaded, fried pork
chops smothered with massive
amounts of gravy, I would jour-
ney to one of Fort Worth’s cozy
little soul food eateries to satisfy
my cravings, then waddle home for
a nap.
My perception of soul food,
which was already good, changed
when I entered Ovation, a restau-
rant on Fort Worth’s west side serv-
ing culinary delights by executive
chef Keith Hicks.
Hicks, former executive chef
at Gunsmoke Grill and Saloon,
learned to cook while serving in the
Army. His food, however, tastes as
though years of professional culi-
nary training were involved, giving
a new spin to traditional soul food.
Ovation’s cuisine is plated
in a classy fashion, like soul food
grown up. The dim and cozy at-
mosphere, with soft jazz playing,
offers a relaxing environment to
unwind and enjoy an upscale soul
meal.
The menu includes Opening
Acts for appetizers, Headliners
Martina Trevino/77ie Collegian for entrees and Encores for des-
Keith Hicks, executive chef, sprinkles powdered sugar on a chicken and serts. Dinner options offer appetiz-
waffles plate, an Ovation house specialty. ers such as fried green tomatoes
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Diners give standing Ovation for area soulful restaurant
crab, crawfish, alligator, chicken
and okra served over rice (sounds
good for cold days, which are plen-
tiful lately). A bowl of seafood
gumbo at lunch is offered for $8; a
cup is $4.
I mentioned that I almost
couldn’t eat dessert after finishing
the waffles. But I certainly didn’t
want to disappoint readers, so I
took one for the team and ordered
a big bowl of warm peach cobbler
topped with vanilla ice cream ($6).
Three words describe that lip-
smacking treat: gooey, good and
gratifying. I guess waddling out of
soul food restaurants is a require-
ment, no matter which spices are
used.
Ovation is a unique experience
that gives soul food a fresh, new
reputation and is certainly worth
the trip. Entertainment is provided
nightly with live recording sessions
on stage.
Local musicians of various
: showcased nightly
Buddy
Gumbo
Cowtown Jazz Orchestra.
Log on to www.ovationrestaurant.com for price menus and
an entertainment schedule.
Reservations arerecommended;
call 817-732-8900.
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