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...Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters). He bears his cross under the stern eye of Roman Centurion John Wayne. Veronica is Carroll Baker, who mops his brow, and-in a labored salute to brotherhood-he gets a helping hand from Simon of Cyrene (Sidney Poitier). Such coy vignettes add star power but not stature. They merely bolster the evidence that Western man's greatest story has yet to be greatly told on film...
Jones, together with Sidney Poitier, Earle Hyman and Harold Scott, are the four most gifted young Negro actors today--the first two excelling in modern realism, the latter pair possessed of sterling skill in classical styles...
...identified with song and dance-Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis Jr., Ethel Waters, Lena Horne-and the dramatic roles open to Negroes have generally been stereotypes or slim pickings. But suddenly there is a new range of Negro roles and a new generation of Negro actors to fill them-Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and now Diana Sands...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m.-conclusion). Sidney Poitier, Rock Hudson and Dana Wynter in Something of Value...
Changed Signs. In Manhattan, instead of WHITE ONLY, the signs said DISHWASHER WANTED. So Poitier washed dishes. He slept in 5? pay toilets or, if the weather was warm, on a rooftop. He joined the army in 1943, lying about his age, which was 16. He was made an orderly in a mental hospital, and a little over a year later was discharged with nervous complications...