Word: clydes
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...hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found themselves alienated from skeptical youth-and teen-age looters in the recent riots were clearly not guided by obedience to the Ten Commandments. "They don't hear you when you say, Thou shalt not kill,'" admits the Rev. Clyde Williams of Atlanta. "They say, 'We've tried love and that didn't get us anything...
...award for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner seemed simply a sentimental tribute to a career more remarkable than her latest performance. George Kennedy's recognition as best supporting actor in Cool Hand Luke was long overdue. But naming Estelle Parsons best supporting actress for Bonnie and Clyde was only quirky: hers was the least significant characterization in the movie. Though Bonnie and Clyde was nominated for ten awards, the Academy ultimately gave it the back of its handout: the most distinguished film of the year won only one other Oscar-for Burnett Guffey's cinematography...
...made long before the King assassination); with five Oscars it was the most honored film of the year. One of the weakest choices involved the year's other major race picture, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; William Rose's gummy screenplay outranked Bonnie and Clyde, La Guerre Est Finie and Two for the Road...
Movie buffs flip when they pass him on Manhattan streets, squealing "That face! It's C.W.! Hey there, C. W. Moss!" In fact, so many people remember Michael J. Pollard's wild hair and potato face in Bonnie and Clyde that the 28-year-old actor has become the center of a pop cult. One bunch is running him for President, and a clothing manufacturer wants to put his pixyish grimace on dresses. "Can you imagine wearing my face out in public?" giggles Pollard. "Making money off my face?" He's already swamped with new scripts...
...Picture Arts and Sciences threw in its sordid lot with the apostles of non-violence last night, naming In the Heat of the Night best picture, its star Rod Steiger best actor, and Sterling Silliphant's script best original screenplay. The chief victim of the backlash was Bonnie and Clyde, which for the sensitive members of the Academy conjured up visions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown...