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...Segal gives his best performance since King Rat, and Steiger offers the audience a cornucopia of characters and caricatures. Some are overplayed while others are slighted, but consistency is beside the point: no other major American actor ^ould have brought off this kind of multifaccted tour de force, which once was the exclusive property of Alec Guinness...
...only 42," he explains. "Brando is 43, Paul Newman is 43, but I look like everybody's father." True enough. Although Rod Steiger's weight rises and falls with tidal regularity-and the demands of the role-he normally carries about 220 lbs. of fat and gristle on his 5-ft. 10-in. frame. His hairline is almost a memory, and his jowls reflect years of studied attention to the pleasure of the table. Rod Steiger's worth has increased with his girth: his current fee is $500,000 a film, and most producers feel that...
Rodney Stephen Steiger is the kind of performer moviegoers seldom rec recognize on the street, and they tend to remember the role he created rather than the fact that he played it. Although a stratum of burly menace seems to underlie all his performances, there is uncommon variety in his characterizations. His recent range includes an evocation of Pope John XXIII in the semidocumentary And There Came a Man; Mr. Joyboy, the simpering mortician of The Loved One; the lascivious Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago; and his favorite role, the guilt-racked Nazerman in The Pawnbroker...
Three times nominated for Academy Awards, Steiger is the current favorite to win this year's Oscar for best male actor on the strength of his performance as the mulish redneck sheriff of In the Heat of the Night. It was a job of acting marked by a craftsman's meticulous attention to detail: the assured swagger of the small-town cop who knows he is The Law, the wobbly waddle in the sun that evokes languidity induced by oppressive heat. To achieve the effect, Steiger relied on his standard technique: total immersion. "I've never seen...
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...