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“Some Notables Name Their Bests.” Questionnaire by unidentified writer. New York Times, 6 January, Sec. II, p. 9. Mailer and 14 others, including Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Crawford, Billie Jean King, Beverly Sills and Wilt Chamberlain, name their favorite movies of 1973. Mailer’s choices: “Spider’s Strategem,” “The Conformist,” “Last Tango in Paris” (see 73.12), “Cries and Whispers,” “Save the Tiger,” “Paper Moon,” “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean,” “The Heartbreak Kid,” “The Way We Were,” “The Devil in Miss Jones,” “Hex.”