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POOR COW. TV Director Kenneth Loach's first film tells the story of a scruffy London slum dweller (Carol White) with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never jokes...
...GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy Williams is M.C. of the 25th annual presentation of awards for TV and movie excellence, live from Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove. Jerry Lewis, Carol Channing, Peter Lawford and Jim Brown hand out the statuettes...
Documentary in style, Poor Cow opens with a closeup of Joy (Carol White) in pain. She writhes and thrashes, panting. A nurse puts an anesthetic mask over her face, and the camera moves down her body as the doctor's hands deliver the child and start it breathing. Though her husband Tom (John Bindon) is a crude, bullying, small-time criminal, Joy manages a pathetic simulation of middle-class domesticity-living in a development house, airing baby Jonny in a swanky pram, serving hostessy sandwiches to Tom's accomplices while they are plotting a caper...
...movie, though, belongs to 24-year-old Carol White, another émigré from TV. She invites inevitable comparison with Julie Christie; Producer Janni "discovered" both of them, and there is a notable physical resemblance. Miss White's range as an actress remains to be tested, but the gamut she runs here is already fairly long-slob and sexpot, worried mother and girl in love. She is totally convincing as a woman who can find a bit of fun and some fatuous hope by riding with the punches-whether they come from Fate or some other...
...HOLLYWOOD STARS OF TOMORROW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly presides over this 15th annual contest, in which ten starlets compete for the title of "Hollywood Star of Tomorrow." Past winners: Raquel Welch, Sally Field, Carol Lynley, Kim Novak...