TELEVISION
Wednesday. January 6 THE PATTY DUKE SHOW (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.).* Patty thinks a college professor (Frank Sinatra Jr.) wants to marry her.
Thursday, January 7
DR. KILDARE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Robert Young and Margaret Leighton as a fatally ill doctor and his dangerously sick wife.
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A mother is charged with the death of her three-year-old son. William Shatner, Madlyn Rhue and Ben Piazza are guest stars.
PERRY COMO'S MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). With Crooner Dean Martin and Singer-Dancer Carol Lawrence. Color.
Friday, January 8
F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of a weekly series on Roosevelt's presidential career. Charlton Heston speaks the President's words, and Arthur Kennedy is narrator.
THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Wits Mike Nichols and Elaine May and Singer Florence Henderson. Color.
Saturday, January 9
THE HULA BOWL (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Northern v. Southern college all-stars in Honolulu. Taped from previous day.
THE ENTERTAINERS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Carol Burnett brings her vast comic assets back to the show. With Caterina Valente and Phil Silvers.
Sunday, January 10
N.F.L. FOOTBALL (NBC, 4 p.m. to end). The outstanding players of the Eastern and Western divisions in the Pro Bowl, from Los Angeles. Color.
TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa.
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Part 1 of Exodus, Otto Preminger's spectacular version of the struggle to create and maintain Israel's independence, starring Paul Newman.
Monday, January 11
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). International crime organization T.H.R.U.S.H. tries to free one of its leaders before Agent Solo can deliver him to the CIA.
Tuesday, January 12 HULLABALOO (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new variety show for swinging music lovers, featuring the New Christy Minstrels, the Zombies, and Comedian Woody Allen. Color.
THEATER
On Broadway
HUGHIE is a one-act, 65-minute postlude to The Iceman Cometh and Eugene O'Neill's obsessive theme that truth kills and the lie of illusion nourishes life. In a performance of consummate skill, Jason Robards does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even in lesser plays --he lays his life on the lines.
ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy, Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel.
POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr has written a pensively playful study of the ability to love and write. Alan Bates, as a kind of Burton-Thomas-Behan composite, displays the flypaper charm that women love to get stuck with.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands and Alan Alda rough each other up with steady hilarity in Bill Manhoff's sexy and sassy rendition of the war between the sexes.
LUV. Murray Schisgal turns the theater of the absurd upside down, and sophisticated laughter tumbles out. Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin are exemplars of fine comic acting.
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Joan Littlewood and her troupe mock and grieve over the senselessness and tragedy beneath the uniforms and military doubletalk of World War I. It is a scorching, fascinating evening in the theater.
Off Broadway
THE TOILET and THE SLAVE. Naked hate, like naked love, is extremely difficult to project and sustain on a stage, but no one can do it with more venomous intensity than Negro Playwright Le Roi Jones. Jones is a dramatic terrorist, and as he sees it, the Negro is not starved for brotherhood but power.
MAN AND SUPERMAN. Shavian wit frosted with acting brilliance makes this spoof of the courting and mating process a tasteful dramatic delight.
RECORDS
Folk Music
JOAN BAEZ 5 (Vanguard). Baez is still soaring high. She sings Villa-Lobos alongside Phil Ochs, a poem by Lord Byron, verses by Bob Dylan, old English ballads and the new Birmingham Sunday.
RAGGED BUT RIGHT! (Vanguard) shows how country music and bluegrass sound after they go to college and move to the city. The three young Greenbriar Boys are lively, technically superb, sometimes jazzy and even in tune as they range from the old-timey Take a Whiff on Me, otherwise known as the Cocaine Blues, to A Minor Breakdown, an original by the Greenbriar banjoist.
SMOKY MOUNTAIN BALLADS (RCA Victor). Country music before it left the hills. Reissues from the '30s by Southern Appalachian fiddlers, banjo pickers and balladeers like Uncle Dave Macon, the Carter Family, and Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers.
TOM PAXTON: RAMBLIN' BOY (Elektra). Paxton, 26, has a lazy voice and a busy pen: all 15 songs are his. He grew up in Oklahoma, like Woody Guthrie, and fights many of the same battles, along with Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs. Paxton is against war, automation, Southern sheriffs and textbook history (What Did You Learn in School Today?). The title song of the album, Ramblin' Boy, seems to get around the most.
THE KINGSTON TRIO (Decca). John Stewart is well settled into Dave Guard's old spot; the three sing new songs, and they are still easy on the ear. But the trio seems to have lost something that may be hard to retrieve: the bounce of youth.
WOODY GUTHRIE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECORDINGS (3 LPs; Elektra). Guthrie is apotheosized in the folk world partly because of his life, personally carefree and socially committed, and the unrestrained, sometimes vivid way he talked and sang about it. Three hours of Guthrie, re-edited from 1940 sessions with Alan Lomax. are divided between his stories about the Southwest and his "singing history" of the '30s.
For less dedicated Guthrie fans, RCA Victor's reissue of the Dust Bowl Ballads is a good sampling, and Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2 (Folkways) includes some lighter moments like Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy and The Talking Hard-Luck Blues.
CINEMA
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) fields a pair of champions, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who romp through this hilarious, sentimental, fiercely moral old tearjerker about a Neapolitan pastrymaker who is dragged to the altar by an indomitable tart.
ZORBA THE GREEK. An uproarious bacchanalian bash, superbly adapted from Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, with a magnificent cast led by Anthony Quinn as Zorba, who teaches a timid British author (Alan Bates) to enjoy women, endure disaster, and drink deep of the wine of life.
WORLD WITHOUT SUN. Seven oceanauts spend a month in an underwater tank town, and the result is an eerie, colorful documentary by Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The Silent World).
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Like a kid with a handful of bright new crayons, French Director Jacques Demy transforms a sadly cynical musical about young love into a film of unique and haunting beauty.
TO LOVE. A merry young widow (Harriet Andersson) lets a red-blooded travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) allay her grief. Result: a lusty, lightsome sex comedy by Swedish Director Joern Donner.
GOLDFINGER. James Bond again, with Ian Fleming's hero smoothly travestied by Actor Sean Connery who destroys criminals, devastates their ladies, and saves the gold at Fort Knox.
SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A taut English thriller about a demented psychic (Kim Stanley) and her spouse (Richard Attenborough) who carry out a kidnaping suggested by voices from Beyond.
THE PUMPKIN EATER. Marriage is a sex war in this incisive British drama, and Anne Bancroft shows astonishing versatility as a three-time contender suffering from battle fatigue.
MY FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe musical based on G. B. Shaw remains indestructible showmanship, with Audrey Hepburn as the grimy flower peddler brought to full bloom by Professor Rex Harrison.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE DIARIES OF PAUL KLEE, edited by Felix Klee. Like his contemporaries Freud and Jung. Artist Klee sought out the hieroglyphs of the heart, and embodied them in squiggly, childlike paintings. His diaries follow a parallel course, for he lived a life of impromptu ebullience and left to the world an unself-conscious record of youthful escapades and cheerful self-indulgence.
RUSSIA AT WAR: 1941-45, by Alexander Werth. A Russian-born British journalist who was on the spot has compiled the most complete English-language history to date of the titanic struggle with Germany. Though the account sometimes leans too heavily on official Soviet explanations--and jargon--the canvas is vast and the details often fascinating.
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. Her essays, letters and a fictionalized memoir transform Mrs. D. H. Lawrence from an offstage presence into a compelling figure passionately loyal to her husband's work, if, on one occasion at least, unfaithful to his person.
A TREASURY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL HUMOR by Leonard C. Lewin. These jokes and yarns tend to be on the broad side, but in addition to being funny, they provide perspective on our most revered --and often clumsiest--political customs and institutions.
THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. This first biography about Joseph P. Kennedy documents much of his astonishing drive for power: how he amassed his large fortune and sent his sons out to fight for the high public office he himself had missed.
HENRY ADAMS: THE MAJOR PHASE, by Ernest Samuels. The end volume of an imposing life and literary history that penetrates the cynicism of Adams' later years and traces the emotional and cerebral ferment that resulted in the austere Education and the moving Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.
THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of this prolific writer's low-keyed chronicles, but not just more of the same. O'Hara's imagination is even livelier, his psychology broader, and the feeling implicit in a story such as Some Days I Get Such a Longing reaches an intensity that he has rarely equaled since Appointment in Samarra.
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. The nation's late "poet laureate" was too complicated a man to take full shape through this correspondence alone, but it is a thorough and delightful selection and promises much for Editor Thompson's forthcoming official biography.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week) 2. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (2)
3. The Man, Wallace (3)
4. This Rough Magic, Stewart (4)
5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (5)
6. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (7) 7. The Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara
8. Julian, Vidal (8)
9. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (6)
10. A Kind of Anger, Ambler (10)
NONFICTION
1. Markings, Hammarskjoeld (1)
2. Reminiscences, MacArthur (2)
3. The Kennedy Years, The New York Times and Viking Press (6)
4. The Italians, Barzini (3)
5. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake (4)
6. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (7)
7. The Founding Father, Whalen (8)
8. My Autobiography, Chaplin (5)
9. The Future of Man, De Chardin
10. The Words, Sartre
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