TELEVISION
Wednesday, October 23
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Postponed from last week, Author Jessica Mitford (The American Way of Death) and other critics of U.S. funeral practices.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Psychiatrist Ralph Bellamy assigns Nurse Diahann Carroll to rehabilitate Patient Robert Wagner, who has lost his looks.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guest: Gene Kelly.
Friday, October 25
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The owner of a key club and girlie mag is murdered. Suspects include Sammy Davis Jr., Burgess Meredith, Suzy Parker, Diana Dors, Arlene Dahl, John Ireland and Jan Sterling.
BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Andy Griffith, Martha Raye, Jane Russell and Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax.
ROUTE 66 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tammy Grimes plays an acoustical engineer in a script by Sterling Silliphant.
TWILIGHT ZONE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Rod Serling's "The Last Night of a Jockey," starring Mickey Rooney.
THE WORLD'S GIRLS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A special on women around the world.
Saturday, October 26
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). A child's view of the life and work of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Karting championships from Rockford, Ill. and National AAU Outdoor Synchronized Swimming championships from Washington, D.C.
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The Prestons take on a case of possible surgical malpractice.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Something of Value, the screen version of Robert Ruark's Mau Mau novel, with Rock Hudson, Sidney Poitier, Dana Wynter and Wendy Hiller.
Sunday, October 27
NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). This program, featuring reruns of NBC News specials, repeats 1961's "Vincent van Gogh, A Self-Portrait." Color.
SUNDAY (NBC, 4-5 p.m). The premiere of a new kind of news show that will cover the week's events in national and foreign affairs, music, science, art, medicine, books, sports, motion pictures and the theater.
THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The Moscow State Circus, featuring the Kochenov Cossack Riders and a bear who rides a motorcycle.
THE APRIL IN PARIS BALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). From the Americana Hotel in Manhattan, a look at a high-society bash, with entertainment provided by Liza Minelli, Peter Duchin and Frank Sinatra Jr.
Monday, October 28 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The career of Al Jolson.
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Lee Grant and Norman Fell guest-star in "Not Bad for Openers," with stage and screen Actor George C. Scott as this excellent show's resident talent.
THEATER
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet. These two one-acters explore the moods of love, antic and frantic. The players--Barry Foster, Geraldine McEwan, Brian Bedford and Moray Watson --are attuned like a fine string quartet.
A CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, fights the class war at an R.A.F. base during a conscript training cycle. The play is good-humored, brisk, abrasive, and a scorching evening of theater.
HERE'S LOVE. Meredith Willson's Music Man bounce has deserted him in this musical adaptation of the movie Miracle on 34th Street. It may be Christmas time in the script, but the show has all the festive gaiety of Maundy Thursday.
THE REHEARSAL. Purity corrupted is a theme that obsesses French Playwright Jean Anouilh. In this prismatic and bitter comedy, a count's true love for a governess is destroyed by some sophisticated drawing-room criminals.
LUTHER, by John Osborne, may not be everyone's conception of the towering Christian who started the Reformation, but it is a dynamic portrait of a fiery Promethean rebel. To see Albert Finney in Luther is to watch chained lightning hit the boards.
CINEMA
TOM JONES. Director Tony Richardson has made the greatest comic novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear.
MY LIFE TO LIVE. In his fourth film, the first to reach the U.S. since Breathless, French Director Jean-Luc Godard has compiled another dazzling textbook of cinema technique, and has composed a lyric poem of images about a woman who sells her body and saves her soul.
THE RUNNING MAN, not to be confused with The Third Man, Odd Man Out, The Man Between or Our Man in Havana, is another exciting Manhunt directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed, but the trick this time is to know who is hunting whom.
THE V.l.P.S. It isn't much fun to spend the night in an airport, but somehow Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor, Margaret Rutherford and Director Anthony Asquith manage to make it seem that way.
THE CONJUGAL BED. A very funny, very salty Italian tale about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady) and makes an embarrassing discovery: the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, are pretty to look at but tiring to harvest.
THE MUSIC ROOM. Another fine film from India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy): the tragedy of a snob who dissipates a fortune to impress a man he despises.
THE SUITOR. A young French funnyman named Pierre Etaix wrote, directed and personally interprets this remarkable succession of sight gags.
THE LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in one of the year's finest films: Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These open, wonderfully touching letters follow the novelist from his precocious literary success to his personal and financial misery in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and his best work scorned.
CHALLENGE TO AFFLUENCE, by Gunnar Myrdal. Attacking the Galbraithian theory of the affluent society, the eminent Swedish sociologist argues that the U.S. has to raise its economic growth rate from the current 1% and start producing again.
BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Whether or not one agrees, their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology and freewheeling statements about national characteristics make excellent reading.
THE BLUE LANTERN, by Colette. The great French novelist's last major work, written when she was crippled by arthritis, is an unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing.
THE FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. Savata Drew turned from dancing in a strip joint to becoming the most successful bishop in a Negro evangelical sect in Brooklyn. White Texan William Goyen tells her story with sympathy and wit.
SAINT GENET, by Jean-Paul Sartre. The eminent existentialist argues that Jean Genet, thief, pederast, poet, pornographer, playwright (The Blacks), is a walking allegory of modern man.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. Caravans, Michener (3)
4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (5)
5. The Collector, Fowles (4)
6. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (7)
7. The Three Sirens, Wallace (10)
8. Joy in the Morning, Smith (8)
9. City of Night, Rechy (9)
10. Powers of Attorney, Auchincloss (6)
NONFICTION 1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1) 2. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (2) 3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (5) 4. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (4) 5. Rascal, North (3) 6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6) 7. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (7) 8. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (8) 10. The Education of American Teachers, Conant
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