The Five-Day Lover. France's Philippe de Broca (The Love Game) has produced a minor comic mattresspiece in which hero (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and heroine (Jean Seberg) tear up the sheets with hilarious abandon; but then at the last minute, the director figuratively draws the sheets over the lovers' faces--the contemporary bedroom, he seems to be saying, is a morgue.
A Summer to Remember. The Soviet film industry, which has recently been testing products of high entertainment yield and low propaganda fallout (Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man), now releases a warm and wonderfully funny story of a little boy's life with father in contemporary Russia.
The Kitchen. Too many cooks cannot spoil this spluttering slumgullion of socialism and melodrama, heated to a rolling boil by British Playwright Arnold Wesker.
Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.
West Side Story. Despite some sick-sick-sick pseudosociology, Broadway's long-running choreoperetta makes a big, fast, exciting cinemusical.
Loss of Innocence. A thriller of sensibility, based on Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, celebrates a sophisticated rite of puberty in a French chateau.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignee expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and wit.
Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about a woodcutter who sups with Death.
The Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns that character, meaning Old Champ Jackie Gleason, is more important than talent.
TELEVISION
Wed., Nov. 29
Hollywood: The Golden Years (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Gene Kelly narrates an hourlong special about the silent era, from 1903's The Great Train Robbery to 1927's The Jazz Singer.
The World of Billy Graham (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Another special, following Dr. Billy through the routines of his working day, his home life, his foreign crusades.
Thurs., Nov. 30
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Julie Harris stars in a TV adaptation of Laurence Housman's dramatic portrait of Queen Victoria. Color.
Yves Montand on Broadway (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Caruso of the master bedroom sings Broadway show tunes and American folk songs in the company of such outstanding guest performers as Helen Gallagher and John Raitt.
Fri., Dec. 1
The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert with Leonard Bernstein (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Claude Debussy's La Mer and Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe are the central examples in a program that asks: "What Is Impressionism?" Lenny answers.
International Showtime (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Some of the Continent's funniest clowns, assembled and photographed in Lausanne.
Frank McGee's Here and Now (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). News features, including a discussion of football deaths by the sports committee of the American Medical Association.
Sun., Dec. 3
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A walk through modern Honolulu with Takeo Yoshikawa, the Japanese spy who for eight months prior to Dec. 7, 1941, sent messages from Hawaii to Japan about U.S. fleet movements.
Mon., Dec. 4
Japan: East Is West (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A special illustrating the effect of Western ideas on Japan since World War II.
THEATER
On Broadway
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky. A lustrous morality play in which Fredric March as the Lord and Douglas Campbell as Gideon are, to put it mildly, magnificent. Chayefsky's dialogue spirals off into rhetoric, and his reasoning is sometimes flawed, but his theme is enduring--man's relationship to God.
The Complaisant Lover, by Graham Greene. In this amusing triangle play, Playwright Greene adopts the French point of view that adultery is too frivolous a reason for breaking up a marriage and a family. Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers and Richard Johnson make a warmly credible if unconventional threesome.
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick (Dial "M" for Murder) Knott is more of a will-he-do-it than a whodunit, but this ratiocinative thriller never lacks for high-voltage suspense.
An Evening with Yves Montand brings April in Paris to New York in November. A rich, throaty vocalist, Montand is also a fine mimic and actor, and one of the most potent love potions ever poured across the footlights.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is as enjoyable as its title is long. Rising from window washer to chairman of the board, Robert Morse is a comic marvel of apple-cheeked guile and flaming self-adoration.
A Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from a Paris hit, cleverly mingles sex and murder. Julie Harris is artfully and utterly winning as a kind of sleep-around maid.
From the Second City is an informal, talent-laden revue that is saucy, sassy, hip, zooty and xiphoid, plus being more fun than two barrels of monkeys.
The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of Britain's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and an aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition of man.
Off Broadway
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. Halfway to Heartbreak House but twice as blithesome and half as apocalyptic, this 1910 play gives the Edwardian British upper classes the chance to talk their heads off.
BOOKS
Best Reading The Super-Americans, by John Bainbridge. Texas as its own satire, a device used to good purpose by Reporter Bainbridge, whose portrait of the state is a readable example of malicious objectivity.
Horace Walpole, by Sheldon Lewis. The author provides an intimate and appreciative biography of the elegant 18th century fop and gossipist, an author who, writing to titillate posterity, could find a fly in any ointment, a crack in any armor.
Scrap Irony, by Felicia Lamport. Verse in homage to the great god pun, by an author whose art is in the right place.
The Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. For Johnson fans, this biography, written four years before Boswell's masterpiece and driven out of print almost immediately by the author's enemies, offers a new and fascinating view of the crusty lexicographer.
Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. Heaping up a vast midden of minutiae, Biographer Schorer provides a satisfactory, if not definitive, portrait of a complex and anguished man.
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. These two related stories about a young girl's brush with religious obsession are a superb part of the story cycle the author is writing about the prodigious Glass family.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2, last week)
2. Franny and Zooey, Salinger ( 1 )
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3)
4. Spirit Lake, Kantor (5)
5. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (4)
6. Clock Without Hands, McCullers (8)
7. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (6)
8. Little Me, Dennis
9. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (10)
10. Mila 18, Uris (7)
NONF1CTION
1. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)
2. The Making of the President 1960, White (1)
3. Living Free, Adamson (4)
4. The Sheppard Murder Case, Holmes
5. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (6)
6. Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (3)
7. The Age of Reason Begins, Will and Ariel Durant (8)
8. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (5)
9. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell
10. I Should Have Kissed Her More, King (7)
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