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If for a moment you were lucky enough to fall within her orbit, you never forgot meeting Cicely Tyson. Nearing the end of her six-decade career the actress-activist still radiated fierce pride in an admittedly curtailed career. I met Tyson twice. First, when as a novice reviewer for a Hollywood trade paper I raved about “Sounder” — without mentioning screenwriter Lonnie Elder III, the only African-American behind the camera. A rookie mistak e for which I was deservedly told off in a flood of angry phone cal
I met Tyson again in 2005, when she and good friend Louise Fletcher came to San Jose for a buddy comedy.
by Glenn Lovell