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...prissy sissies played by the likes of Franklin Pangborn and Grady Sutton 40 or 50 years ago, and from the self-tortured gays of The Boys in the Band and the monsters of Cruising, among more recent characterizations. Some observers liken the new gay movies to the Sidney Poitier period pieces about blacks: necessary non-evils designed to disarm the middle-class public by stressing a minority group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that is the way gays prefer to see these pictures. Says Lucia...
...Studio who redirected both the training of actors and theatrical performance in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York City. Over five decades, the Polish-born Strasberg, a discerning but caustic pedagogue, helped shape such future stars as Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, John Garfield, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Eli Wallach, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Strasberg's technique, the so-called Method, was inspired by a system developed by the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky. Through the use of physical and emotional exercises, Strasberg taught his pupils to forgo external acting tricks and "internalize" roles, drawing on reservoirs...
...much for Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones, to clunk, snarling, from one literary dinner party to another...
Directed by Sidney Poitier...
...Pamela Poitier, 22. is determined to make it on her own. She turned down a part in Father Sidney Poitier's movie, tentatively titled Piece of the Action, in order to act off-Broadway. "I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to be independent and make my statement alone," she explains. Her statement turns out to be that of a "sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details...