Wednesday, November 10 I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).-In "No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise," Agents Scott and Robinson search Hong Kong for an elusive double agent whom they p lan to trade to the Communists for an American pilot. Color.
Thursday, November 11 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-[ 1 p.m.). Jack Lemmon in The Wackiest Ship in the Army. Color.
Friday, November 12 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Napoleon and Illya help a madcap actress who is trying to keep her brilliant 14-year-old nephew from being kidnaped by THRUSH agents. Color.
Saturday, November 13 GET SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Satan Place," Maxwell Smart, Secret Agent 86, rescues his boss from the clutches of KAOS. Color.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). James Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Attorney O'Brien (Peter Falk) defends a heist artist who is accused of killing a violin dealer.
Sunday, November 14 THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-midnight). Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens and Robert Donat in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
Tuesday, November 16 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Mountain, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner and Claire Trevor, is based on an actual plane crash in the French Alps in 1950. Color.
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Sinatra: An American Original," a profile of the king of the pack.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, is an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, and it ranges from the pantomime of weary conquistadors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes to the incandescent white and gold robes of the Inca sun god. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning.
GENERATION. William Goodhart converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hippie, the parent and the child. Henry Fonda, as a visiting father-in-law, fights the battle of the ages with his usual bemused charm.
HALF A SIXPENCE glints with bright song and dance, and Tommy Steele glows with the grin of an English leprechaun in an exuberant musical.
THE ODD COUPLE. The comic insight of Playwright Neil Simon gives hilarious credibility to a household of two husbands who find out--by living together--why their wives couldn't stand to live with them.
LUV. Murray Schisgal's satire of psychic snobs and pseudo-Freudian fools is sharpened by the inventive direction of Mike Nichols.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT are more kitten (Diana Sands) and mouse (Alan Alda) in Bill Manhoff's amusing yarn about the eternal circular pursuit of male and female.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The earthy humor of Sholom Aleichem's tales is given a Broadway gloss in a musical that combines compassion and commercial appeal.
Off Broadway
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. The limited agonies and ecstasies of a Brooklyn longshoreman and his family are the fabric for Arthur Miller's tapestry of domestic tragedy.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED makes a not-so-gay era seem not-so-grim. The Porter wit is the guide on a tuneful journey through the past 40 years.
RECORDS
Comedy
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS (Mono). Still seeking his doctorate and moonlighting as a comic at 37 ("It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years"), Harvard Graduate Student Tom Lehrer plinks away at targets ranging from air pollution to nuclear proliferation. Among his bull's-eyes: those guitar-plunking protestniks (The Folk Song Army) whose St. Joan is Baez as they "strum their frustrations away."
A WET BIRD NEVER FLIES AT NIGHT (Jubilee). His grandfather, he reports, "broke the Code of the West--he said a discouraging word," but for fast-rising Comic Jackie Vernon, discouragement is a way of life, or at least livelihood. The most winning loser since the New York Mets, Vernon, as his routine would have it, "came from poor but poverty-stricken parents. We used to get food from Europe. At the age of 8, I was adopted by a Korean family . . ."
WHY IS THERE AIR? (Warner Bros.). Negro Bill Cosby, the hip, hot co-star of NBC's / Spy, swings low-key as a comedian; he foregoes the racial bit on the ground that it Is demeaning, instead settles for wry universals about the likes of college football and kindergarten.
ART BUCHWALD REPORTS ON SEX AND THE COLLEGE BOY AND OTHER SUBJECTS VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY (Capitol). "I'm one of those who thinks the press was not fair to Goldwater. For one thing, we quoted him." Though he's worth an occasional chuckle, Humorist Buchwald and his flat, phlegmatic delivery prove mainly that his copy is better read than said.
MOM ALWAYS LIKED YOU BEST! (Mercury). The Smothers Brothers never seem to get any older, but their material does. A sample thigh slapper: Why, wonders Tommy, is the Fourth of July your favorite holiday? Replies Dickie: "The presents under the tree." This is a bestseller.
HOW TO BE A JEWISH MOTHER (AMY). "If you had not spent the money on this record but had instead sent it to Europe," admonishes Gertrude Berg on the final groove, "a needy child would have had six nourishing meals." But you should buy the record already as a hilarious how-to-do-it doozer based on the Dan Greenburg bestseller. Its first commandment: "Control guilt, and you control the child--let your child hear you sigh every day . . ."
WOODY ALLEN, VOLUME 2 (Colpix). Playing, as ever, the schlemiel end product of Jewish motherdom, Allen is constantly entangled with the likes of "the boy from my group-analysis group who is a Southern bigot and a bed wetter--he used to go to Klan meetings in a rubber sheet."
CINEMA
KING RAT. A cunning G.I. scavenger (George Segal) exploits his fellow prisoners of war for profit in Director Bryan Forbes's brutal, unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp. Among those caught in the con man's toils, James Fox and Tom Courtenay struggle most impressively.
REPULSION. Men pursue a sexually repressed London manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) but seldom live to tell it in a horror classic by Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water).
THE HILL. More World War II injustice rages through a British army stockade in North Africa where Sean Connery, as a much-abused prisoner, gives evidence that what has heretofore been sealed in Bond may be the new Clark Gable.
THE RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama is fired by a major talent: Director Pietro Germi (Divorce--Italian Style), who also plays the title role as an endearingly wrongheaded train engineer beset by commonplace woes.
TO DIE IN MADRID. With John Gielgud and Irene Worth among the narrators, French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif splices vintage newsreels into a masterful elegy for the victims of Spain's scarring civil war of 1936-39.
DARLING. Julie Christie is the apotheosis of trumped-up celebrity as a kooky, easy jet-set playgirl whose every misstep helps in the social climb.
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bull ring.
KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay again) who is doomed to die and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend him.
BOOKS
Best Reading
RUSSIA AND HISTORY'S TURNING POINT, by Alexander Kerensky. An intriguing though somewhat sketchy eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution as seen by its first Prime Minister, whose efforts to bring democracy to Russia failed after only 3 1/2months.
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories, four of them new, by the author of Ship of Fools. Though marred by an oppressive intellectuality, these stories confirm that Author Porter is a master stylist.
BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. An eerie, fascinating journey into the depths of an insane mind, told with a grace and skill that transform psychiatry into living literature.
THE LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS, by Constantine FitzGibbon. Besides being a genius, Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas was also a perennial problem child who mooched off his friends and slept with their wives, ignored his children, and drank ceaselessly. FitzGibbon, a friend of Thomas', brings the two images brilliantly into focus as he follows the poet from a spoiled childhood through a tempestuous marriage to a premature death in America from an overdose of whisky.
THE GREAT MUTINY, by James Dugan. The British fleet in 1797 may have seemed invincible to the French, but 50,000 of His Majesty's seamen, fed up with being underfed, underpaid and too often flogged, took control of 100 vessels and blockaded their own country in the biggest mass mutiny in maritime history.
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting, the late Bernard Berenson was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra.
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer. While sculpting the three-dimensional figure of Proust, Poet and British Museum Curator Painter also found time to help authenticate The Vinland Map (see below).
THE VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, and George D. Painter. Anyone who is interested in the controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)
2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (3)
3. The Honey Badger, Ruark (4)
4. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (2)
5. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5)
6. Hotel, Hailey (6)
7. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (9)
8. The Rabbi, Gordon
9. The Green Berets, Moore (8)
10. Those Who Love, Stone (10)
NONFICTION 1. Kennedy, Sorensen (1)
2. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (5)
3. Intern, Doctor X (2)
4. The Making of the President, 1964, White (3)
5. Games People Play, Berne (7)
6. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (4)
7. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (6)
8. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln (8)
9. Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (10)
10. Never Call Retreat, Catton
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