Oprah plays it safe with Poitier pick
On Friday, Oprah announced her new book club pick, spiritual memoir The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier.
Granted, we all love Mr. Tibbs...But a spiritual memoir? Her pick before this was high school reading requirement Night by Elie Wiesel…Seems like Ms. O is still going out of her way to distance herself from last year’s pick, gritty fiction-as-memoir A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (pictured).Unless The Smoking Gun has anything on Poitier—who has won an Oscar and has been knighted—I think Oprah’s in the clear.