CINEMA
Pillow Talk. The two box-office champions of the 1958-59 season (Rock Hudson and Doris Day) team up in a medium-fluffy comedy whose greatest asset is Supporting Player Tony Randall, one of the funniest young men in the movies.
The FBI Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery. Despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing.
Look Back in Anger. John Osborne's dramatic milestone about a young English outcast who actually looks back in madness more than anger, filmed in an atmosphere that suggests a dripping winter morning in the English Midlands.
The Anatomy of Love (Italian). Five short stories, somewhat uneven but generally diverting, with Vittorio De Sica and a brief appearance by Sophia Loren.
The Magician (Swedish). The latest witch's brew--mesmerism, symbolism and sex--concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work.
The Man Upstairs. A topnotch thriller about a demented scientist.
North by Northwest. Hitchcock masterminding Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a squad of spies who should know better than to try to do away with Gary Grant. Thoroughly entertaining.
The Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood's rare masterpieces.
TELEVISION
Wed., Oct. 21
Lineup (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Everybody is taking a crack at playing cops and robbers. This time it is Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, minus his dummies, who turns out to be a soft touch for assorted hoods, hams and other heavies.
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Sid Caesar is back with a new sidekick (Audrey Meadows) and an old but promising idea--a comedy special, Holiday on Wheels, based on the history of the American automobile.
Fri., Oct. 23
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A musical look at the life and times of the horse opera. With Burl Ives, Dolores Gray, Art Lund, Patrice Munsel and Brian Sullivan.
Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). An aging movie queen (Ida Lupino) grinds her mental gears, shifts into reverse and takes a tour back to her Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, the Hollywood of a quarter-century ago.
Sat., Oct. 24
Mr. Lucky (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Latest entry in the Action-Adventure Handicap. An honest gambler bucks the odds in clip joints up and down the West Coast.
Sun., Oct. 25
Catholic Hour (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). The Rev. Anselm Burke, a Carmelite, is the celebrant in the last of a three-part explanation of the Roman Catholic Mass.
Leonard Bernstein & the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Bernstein and the Philharmonic filmed during their triumphal tour of Moscow. Boris Pasternak, Dmitry Shostakovich and the widow of Sergei Prokofiev are on hand; Joseph (Anatomy of a Murder) Welch rounds out the program with a "Message for Americans."
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A documentary about how Hollywood learned to talk.
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Arthur Godfrey greets an imposing crowd of guests--from Jack Benny and David Ben-Gurion to Harry Truman and Lauren Bacall--gathered to celebrate the 75th birthday of Eleanor Roosevelt. Color.
Mon., Oct. 26
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Maxwell Anderson's classic Winter set, with Don Murray, Charles Bickford, George C. Scott and Piper Laurie. Color.
Tues., Oct. 27
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Secret World of Kids, as portrayed by secret kids of all ages from Art Linkletter to a chimpanzee named Jerry.
Biography of a Missile (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A careful and conscientious biography of a ballistic missile--construction, testing and actual firing. Edward R. Murrow narrates; Dr. Wernher von Braun spells out the science and technology.
THEATER
At the Drop of a Hat. A delightful evening with two Englishmen who sing and chatter with the exquisite timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts.
Much Ado About Nothing. Delightful subplotters John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton make the play's dull main plot well worth sitting through.
A Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter.
La Plume de Ma Tante. An acrobatty French revue that leaves English and the audience happily fractured.
My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Redhead and Flower Drum Song are a memorable and durable quartet of musicals.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Poems, by Boris Pasternak. The delicate fusion of sound and sense is sometimes obscured in translation, but the greatness of the poet shows richly through.
The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P--L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever.
The Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. In the best English translation to date, the grand old libertine tells with wit and taste of adventures that would reduce today's flanneled philanderers to cardiac cases.
The Devil's Advocate, by Morris L. West. A first-rate religious novel, utterly without peppermint piety, concerning a dying priest who investigates the claims to sainthood of a mysterious World War II deserter.
A Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. One of the first of the great panelists, a born-and-bred New Yorker, provides pleasing information on nature's triumph over asphalt.
Observations, by Richard Avedon. Photographer Avedon proves himself an accomplished face dropper in this fascinating series of keyhole studies of the famous.
The Rack, by A. E. Ellis. A chilling, sometimes sickening novel of a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium, in which hope dies quickly, the patients more slowly.
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. A first-rate biography of the stumpy, tempestuous British jungle fighter who became World War IPs Lion of Burma.
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. U.S. foreign policy troubles, the author argues in this perspective study, are largely the result of the nation's lack of a coherent public philosophy.
Act One, by Moss Hart. One of the theater's most engaging autobiographies, by a Moss whose roles have gathered few critical stones.
This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The author, an Orthodox Jew and a bestselling novelist (Marjorie Morningstar), provides a clear, simple guide to his faith.
Men Die, by H. L. Humes. A violent, gloomy, skillfully written novel in which Negro enlisted men and white officers, tunneling to make an ammunition cache of a Caribbean island, create instead a monument to doom.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. An early, excellent Nabokov novel in which a dead author's brother puzzles over disturbing matters of art and identity.
The Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. The Boxer Rebellion, as the author recreates it, was a comic opera, but the bullets were authentic and so was the heroism.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)/-
2. Exodus, Uris (2)
3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)
4. The Cave, Warren (6)
5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (4)
6. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (5)
7. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (10)
8. The War Lover, Hersey
9. The Thirteenth Apostle, Vale
10. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner NONFICTION
1. The Status Seekers, Packard (1)
2. For 2-c-Plain, Golden (2)
3. Act One, Hart (3)
4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4)
5. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (6)
6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (5)
7. This Is My God, Wouk (8)
8. The Years with Ross, Thurber (7)
9. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (10) 10. Groucho and Me, Marx
-Position on last week's list.
* All times E.D.T., through Oct. 24; E.S.T. thereafter.
/-Position on last week's list.
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