Moon Pilot. Walt Disney has produced the first farce about the space race: a cosmedy of errors about a moonstruck astronut who wrecks the U.S. missile program.
The Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. 1/4 in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier.
Bell' Antonio. A thoughtful but not profound discussion of impotence by Italy's Mauro Bolognini.
All Fall Down. Angela Lansbury is worth seeing in a picture worth fleeing--she plays a small-town hen who broods tenderly over her chicks (Warren Beatty, Brandon deWilde) till they can hardly breathe, clucks witlessly at them till they can scarcely hear themselves think, then henpecks them half to death for their own good.
Only Two Can Play. Peter Sellers plays a wan little Welsh librarian who decides he would rather peruse a blonde than a book.
Viridiana. Made in Spain on Franco's money but banned in Spain by Franco's decree, this peculiar and powerful film by Luis Bunuel predicts in parable the next Spanish revolution and contains an orphic orgy of Goyesque genius.
Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks, it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture.
Through a Glass Darkly. Perhaps the best, certainly the ripest film ever made by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman.
Last Year at Marienbad. A Gordian knot of cinema tied by two ingenious Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour), which seems to make every pint-pot intellectual feel like an Alexander.
The Night. The fashionable ailment of anxiety is skillfully anatomized by Italy's Michelangelo (L'Avventura) Antonioni.
Lover Come Back. Animadversions on advertising, wittily written by Stanley Shapiro and blandly recited by Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
TELEVISION
Wed., April 25 Howard K. Smith: News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Summary of the week's most important news items, with analysis.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The newly opened Seattle World's Fair. Color.
Thurs., April 26 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Birth control is tonight's topic, with Margaret Sanger as special guest.
Fri., April 27
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Rhonda Fleming, Mischa Elman, Anna Moffo, Nicolai Gedda, Earl Wrightson and Benny Goodman and his orchestra sing and make music. Color.
Sat., April 28 Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, David Wayne and Rory Calhoun in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Color.
Sun., April 29
Accent (CBS, 1-1:30 p.m.). French Film Director Jean Renoir, son of Pierre Auguste Renoir, discusses the life and works of his father.
Directions '62 (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). A report on two U.S. doctors who went to Liberia to inoculate natives against smallpox and yellow fever with new jet-spray inoculator known as the "Peace Gun."
Adlai Stevenson Reports (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Guest is William C. Foster, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Magazine Writer Dwight Macdonald, Critic Maxwell Geismar and Producer John Houseman discuss the art and literature of the '30s.
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 1 of Treasure Island.
60 Hours to the Moon (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Astronaut John Glenn will talk to the nation about its future in space, all the way to the moon.
Mon., April 30
Golden Showcase (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). That TV evergreen, The Devil and Daniel Webster, pops up again with Edward G. Robinson, Tim O'Connor and David Wayne.
Tues., May 1
The Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett are teamed up once again for their special brand of comedy.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. The freshest, funniest comedy of the season. As the chief nonconformist in a superb cast of oddballs, Jason Robards Jr. here emerges as the new clown prince of Broadway.
The Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. Four desperate people at rope's end find the strength to live beyond despair and accept their tortuous lot. Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best play of the year.
Ross, by Terence Rattigan. An absorbing intellectual puzzler fashioned around the tantalizingly oblique personality of T. E. Lawrence. John Mills captures the torment, if not the triumph, of the hero.
A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt. This lofty, probing, and eloquent examination of the conflict between individual conscience and public duty is irradiated by Paul Scofield's memorable playing of Sir Thomas More. Voted best foreign play of the year by the New York Drama Critics Circle.
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, makes the relationship between God and man more humorous than awesome, but Fredric March as God and Douglas Campbell as Gideon strike sparks of sublimity.
A Shot in the Dark, adapted from a Paris hit, is a sex-cum-murder mystery in which Julie Harris raises laughs and eyebrows.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying follows Robert Morse's be-guilefully self-appreciative rush to the corporate summit. This accoladen musical was voted best of the year by the New York Drama Critics Circle.
Off Broadway
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mania's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. A surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Barbara Harris is the sexiest sprout since Lolita.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. A German passenger ship bound from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven in 1931 becomes a moving and despairing allegory of the human condition.
George, by Emlyn Williams. In this autobiography of his first 21 years, the celebrated actor-playwright writes well and warmly of his poverty-stricken Welsh beginnings and his near disasters as a scholarship boy at Oxford.
Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull. A sensitive biography of the writer who epitomized the jazz age and its Lost Generation, poured himself down the drain with the dregs of martinis, and is now riding a wave of posthumous popularity.
A Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. The story of a Carolina country girl's love for a young man who often seems to love motorcycles more makes a wise and tender first novel.
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. Literary exercises by America's most prestigious young writer, author of Poorhouse Fair and Rabbit, Run.
The Rothschilds, by Frederic Morton. A dynastic biography of the family that knew so well How to Succeed in Business that they rose from the ghetto to an eminence from which they could tell Queen Victoria to get off their flower beds.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week)
2. The Bull from the Sea, Renault (4)
3. The Fox in the Attic, Hughes (3)
4. Devil Water, Seton (5)
5. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2)
6. Ship of Fools, Porter
7. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (6)
8. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (7)
9. Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten (9) 10. Daughter of Silence, West
NONFICTION
1. My Life in Court, Nizer (1)
2. Calories Don't Count, Taller (2)
3. The Rothschilds, Morton (4)
4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3)
5. Six Crises, Nixon (10)
6. The Making of the President 1960, White (5)
7. Scott Fitzgerald, Turnbull (8)
8. CIA: The Inside Story, Tully (7)
9. In the Clearing, Frost
10. The Last Plantagenets, Costain (6)
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