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...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as two refugees from a chain gang in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones...
Lurching from line to line, Steiger frequently ad-libbed his way through entire scenes-including most of a boozy encounter with Sidney Poitier in the sheriff's house. When the occasion calls for it, Steiger can stick to a script. In The Mark he played a psychiatrist and did not change a line-but improvised in other ways. Drawing on his five years of treatment in New York, he remembered two characteristics of his own analyst: "He had too many patients, and he was always exhausted." Steiger made the psychiatrist a chainsmoking, unshaven, love-haunted man -none of which...
...express itself in a dozen minor keys. Like so many other bright, blonde British birds, she invites comparison with Julie Christie; but in nine films so far, Suzy, now 30, has begun to shape a screen personality all her own. She first drew U.S. viewers' notice as Sidney Poitier's admiring teacher friend in To Sir, with Love, then as the terrorized hostage of The Penthouse. In her two latest films, she displays a widening range, an ability to mix comedy, glamour and poignancy, that eerily evokes memories of her late namesake, Kay Kendall...
More surprising were some omissions. Sidney Poitier was good in Dinner, better in To Sir, with Love, best of all in In the Heat of the Night. But this plethora of creditable performances apparently worked against him. Poitier got no nomination at all. One of the year's best-selling single records was the title tune from To Sir, with Love; a rock ballad, it was absent from the always conservative best-song list...
Still, the majority of nominations were beyond controversy. Bonnie and Clyde is up for ten Oscars. Paul Newman received his fourth nomination for Cool Hand Luke; the protean Rod Steiger got his third, for superbly playing the gum-chewing redneck sheriff opposite Poitier in Night. Perhaps the most important fact about this year's nominations is not the who but the where. All five best-actor citations went to stars of U.S.-made films. In the best-picture category, for the first time in nine years, all five candidates are domestic products...