People: Sep. 22, 1997

GUESS WHO ELSE IS COMING TO DINNER?

There will never be another SIDNEY POITIER. But there is, in fact, a SYDNEY POITIER, and she's coming to a TV screen near you sometime next year. Sydney, 23, is Sidney's youngest daughter. (He has six, three of whom are actresses.) When he was cast in the Showtime movie Free of Eden as a former schoolteacher turned big-shot businessman, he asked the producers to look at his daughter's audition tape for a small part. "He called me at the record company where I was working as an assistant and told me they wanted me...

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