Yup, it's that time for Oprah's Book Club to roll back into action, and this afternoon her addition of Poitier's Measure Of A Man to her laundry list of books that you and your grandmother can now purchase at grocery stores is very, very, very safe (which should give her publicist a nice break). The official annoucement, from Publisher's Weekly:
After putting her book club on ice for a year after her showdown with memoirist James Frey, Oprah has stuck with autobiography for her new selection: Sidney Poitier's spiritual autobiography The Measure of a Man, published by Harper SanFrancisco in 2000. The selection appears well timed for an Oscar season in which an unusually diverse group of actors are up for awards. Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field in 1963.
So: Oprah's Book Club-thoughts, opinions, amusing commentary on the selection? Have you read or do you follow Oprah's Book Club picks, or are you out there rolling your eyes right at this very moment? Let us know in the comments.
Frankly, of all of Oprah's picks, my favorite of Oprah's Book Club selections has been
(Thanks to Jill Spradley)
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4 comments:
whats going to be great is when sidney poitier comes on her show and is like I MADE MOST OF THIS UP
what a safe, safe choice. way to go television, once again you underwhelm me. or maybe just whelm. something like that.
You just made me think of something...
We should start a band called:
"The James Blunt Frey."
It's hard to argue against Poitier. It's also hard to be too excited.
Have you seen an Oprah mash-up of her selection of Anna Karenina? Oprah in a big fur hat on the cover maybe?
Once upon a time, one of my fav books was "A Fine Balance", Rohinton Mistry. When I went to pick up my very own copy after borrowing a friend's, I went nuts at seeing "Oprah's Book Club" defacing the wonderful cover art. Mind you... she picked better books in those days.
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