Word: poitiers
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...Selina calls him, drops her off for the infrequent pleasure of an outing in the park. As she turns to her beads under a shade tree, a caterpillar wriggles down the back of her dress. She screams. A hand some young Negro (Sidney Poitier) runs to help, and the stage is set for the rather obvious tale of a girl to whom all men are colorless. In time she tells her new-found friend her problems, and he, of course, understands instinctively, given the troubles he's seen...
...that can erupt unexpectedly into electric beauty, she wins genuine sympathy by playing up the spunk in her role, playing against the saccharine. She is achingly real without ever being soppy, whether cursing her fate, dodging flatware during a pitched battle between Winters and Ford, or unemotionally explaining to Poitier that she is "experienced" with men because of a brutal encounter with one of her mother's drunken beaus...
...kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former German U-boat commander (Eric Portman) on advisory duty, and by a Negro reporter-photographer (Sidney Poitier). The man to watch, though, is a jumpy young officer (James MacArthur) with all that ASROC firepower at his fingertips...
...film co-star no fewer than five times, and then hit the evening's high note of graciousness: "Deep love to-eh-well, two fair ladies, I think." Next came the best-actress category, and Julie Andrews was onstage, taking her Oscar from 1964 Best Actor Sidney Poitier and beaming. "I know you Americans are famous for your hospitality," she glowed, "but this is ridiculous...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll and Louis Armstrong star as five expatriates in Paris Blues...