Friday, Jun. 02, 1967
TELEVISION Thursday, June 1 SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.)* Fredric March narrates "I, Leonardo da Vinci," which re-creates the life of the artist. Repeat.
Friday, June 2 WELCOME TO JAPAN, MR. BOND (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A preview of the newest and wildest Sean Connery-James Bond spectacular. You Only Live Twice. Clips from the film, an interview with Sean on location in Japan, plus earlier 007 movies.
Saturday, June 3 THE $100,000 MEMPHIS OPEN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Another stop on the professional golf tour, with Bert Yancey, last year's winner, defending his title against Jack Nicklaus and other golfers. More on Sunday from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
THE BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:45 p.m.). The last of the Triple Crown events for three-year-old thoroughbreds, live from Aqueduct Race Track in New York.
AWAY WE GO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Comic George Carlin takes off on a new summertime musical variety hour with two Buddys, Greco and Rich, at his side. Sheila MacRae is the guest on the premiere show.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:20 p.m.). Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden in Sabrina (1954).
Sunday, June 4 FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). "The Church and the Ages of Man" is an eight-part discussion series on how God and the church affect human behavior. Part 1: "The Teens," with Dr. Robert C. Dodds of the National Council of Churches as host.
SOCCER GAME OF THE WEEK (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Chicago at Atlanta.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "To the Moon" deals with the problems man will encounter colonizing the moon. Repeat.
MICHELANGELO: THE LAST GIANT (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The second part of the life of the master is narrated by Jose Ferrer, with Peter Ustinov as the voice of Michelangelo. This covers the 23 years from the end of his work in the Sistine Chapel to his death in 1564.
THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Dick and Tommy play host to Steve Allen, Vikki Carr and Esther Ofarim.
EMMY AWARDS PROGRAM (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Television toasts its own, with Hugh Downs hosting in New York and Joey Bishop holding forth in Hollywood. Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwyck and Carol Burnett are among the presenters.
Tuesday, June 6 CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Gauguin in Tahiti: The Search for Paradise." Sir Michael Redgrave is the voice of Paul Gauguin in a special that focuses on the painter's years in Tahiti.
NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Lady with the Dog is a Russian film based on Anton Chekhov's 19th century story of. . . love affair between a middle-aged banker and a beautiful young lady with a white Pomeranian.
NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "My Name is Children" explores the progressive Nova School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the students learn civics through a game called "Democracy," in which they play roles in a mock government.
THEATER
On Broadway YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Some people envisage sex as a noble Venus. Others picture it as a mischievous Cupid. Some think it inspiring, others downright funny. In his four playlets, Robert Anderson uses it to tease, to tickle and to touch his audience, at times moving them to laughter and at times to tears.
THE HOMECOMING is the winner of this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Tony. Any resemblance between the characters in Harold Pinter's absorbing drama and the family next door is purely metaphysical.
BLACK COMEDY mixes a device of Chinese theater with stage business from vaudeville. It is strictly a one-joke play--about the goings-on when the lights go off --but the joke works. Peter Shaffer is the playwright, Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page the leading actors.
Off Broadway
THE COACH WITH THE SIX INSIDES, originally presented in 1962, is Jean Erdman's phantasmagorial interpretation of Finnegans Wake, blending the richness of Joycean language with drama techniques and music and dance in an intensely imaginative evening of theater.
GALILEO, by Bertolt Brecht, is like a formal ballet of the mind in which the prince of science and the princes of the church dance out their accustomed roles. Anthony Quayle makes diction a diadem, leading the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in a highly creditable production.
HAMP, played by Robert Salvio, is an Everyman of World War I, a simple soldier taught not to question but to obey. Brought to the breaking point by years of battle and bloodshed, he flees the front only to find himself caught in the vise of military discipline and law.
AMERICA HURRAH. In three short plays, Jean-Claude van Itallie unravels some skeins of modern life and finds they lead to confusion, saturation and destruction.
CINEMA
MADE IN ITALY. Italian Director Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) has pieced together a mosaic of ironic episodes to portray modern Italy. Best of an interesting lot: the scene in which Anna Magnani tries to herd her family across a busy Roman boulevard.
TWO FOR THE ROAD. Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney flash back and forth on a twelve-year marital fray-for-all scripted by Frederic Raphael (Darling) and directed by Stanley Donen (Charade).
CASINO ROYALE. David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettit and Ursula Andress are all Bonds of one sort or another in this overblown 007 spoof with more herds than scenes.
NAKED AMONG THE WOLVES. The East Germans have made a stark and powerful film about a small Jewish boy who is protected from the Nazis by his fellow inmates of Buchenwald.
ACCIDENT. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Joseph Losey directed this glacial dissection of passion against the background of a green Oxonian summer.
BOOKS
Best Reading
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. A zany, explosive adult version of the old fairy tale, told with Joycean zest by a gifted young (36) anarchist in the world of words.
TREBLINKA, by Jean-Franc,ois Steiner. Author Steiner's odd theories about the Jews have ignited controversy, but his dramatized version of the uprising by inmates at Poland's infamous concentration camp is icily restrained.
JUST AROUND THE CORNER: A HIGHLY SELECTIVE HISTORY OF THE THIRTIES, by Robert Bendiner. A rollicking, impressionistic recollection of the absurdities that flourished during the Great Depression.
BATTLES IN THE MONSOON, by S.L.A. Marshall. A campaign chronicle of the summer of 1966, punctuated by booby traps, fire fights and personal courage, that provides a genuine understanding of the Viet Nam war.
CLOWN ON FIRE, by Aaron Judah. Novelist Judah transplants a Polish Jewish family to India, where Mama worries about whether her daughters will marry Buddhists. Her son turns out to be an Eastern cousin to Salinger's Holden Caulfield, and his dark days at the Horace College of Rifles in Peshawar rival Holden's at Pencey Prep any old day.
A MAN CALLED LUCY, by Pierre Accoce and Pierre Quet. A spy history that concerns itself with the most unbelievable-and unbelieved--of World War II agents: Swiss-based Rudolph ("Lucy") Roessler, who told all to the Allies and found credence only in the Kremlin.
MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? AND OTHER COMEDIES OF THE SEXUAL LIFE, by Graham Greene. In twelve unmannered, perfectly controlled short stories, Greene again sifts a favorite theme: sex. But this time it is autumnal sex, viewed from the vantage point of memory.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)
3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (3)
4. Washington, D.C., Vidal (7)
5. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (4)
6. Go to the Widow-Maker, Jones (8)
7. Fathers, Gold (5)
8. Capable of Honor, Drury (6)
9. The Captain, De Hartog (10) 10. Rosemary's Baby, Levin
NONFICTION 1. The Death of a President, Manchester (1)
2. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (2)
3. Everything But Money, Levenson (5)
4. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (4)
5. Madame Sarah, Skinner (3)
6. Games People Play, Berne (6)
7. Disraeli, Blake (7)
8. Paper Lion, Plimpton (8)
9. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman 10. Inside South America, Gunther (9)
* All times E.D.T.
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