CINEMA
EThe Gift. A stylistic tour d'esprit that is the most original U.S. movie released so far in 1962. Subject: a creative crisis in the life of a middle-aged painter. Director: a 35-year-old commercial artist named Herbert Danska. Length: 40 minutes. Production cost: $3,123.17.
Guns of Darkness. Something of a sleeper: a routine south-of-the-border bit that develops into a philosophical thriller of remarkable moral insight.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes. When a rake and a dyke fall in love with the same girl, almost anything can happen, and practically everything does in Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's skillful but vicieuse version of a tale by Balzac.
The Best of Enemies. War is heck in this comedy of military errors set in Ethiopia and starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi.
War Hunt. War is madness in this tragedy of military stalemate set in Korea and starring John Saxon.
Money, Money, Money and how to make it--without getting caught. France's Jean Gabin makes a charming fiscalawag.
A Matter of WHO. Agent Terry-Thomas of the World Health Organization in a cloak-and-needle WHOdunit about viruses and villains.
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. A charming, romantic study of the youthful Hemingway, as he saw himself in the Nick Adams stories: a boy who couldn't go places until he had cut the apron strings.
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Hurt Lancaster gives his finest performance as a murderer who in prison becomes an ornithologist.
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about men who seek the brotherhood of man in the motherhood of nature.
The Concrete Jungle. A sophisticated British thriller in which some of the best lines are written for a saxophone.
The Notorious Landlady. A silly summer shocker with Kim and Lemmon.
Lolita. A baby-satyr (James Mason) and a pseudo nymphet (Sue Lyon) are featured in this witless wonder that resembles no book of Nabokov.
TELEVISION
Wed., Sept. 19 The Virginian (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).--PREMIERE of a new series more or less based on Owen Wister's novel, with James Drury as Gary Cooper.
Thurs., Sept. 20 Wide Country (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new series based on the derring-do of Rodeo Champion Mitch Guthrie.
Pro Football Explosion (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A film-clip history of the Na tional Football League, its great moments and great players.
Fri., Sept. 21 Fair Exchange (CBS, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new sitchcom that involves two families, one English, the other American, who have switched teen-age daughters for a year.
Don't Call Me Charlie! (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). PREMIERE of still another new situation howler about a young Iowa veterinarian who is drafted into the Army and stationed in Paris.
The Jack Paar Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). PREMIERE of Jack's new weekly variety series. Tumbling out of the easygoing midnight hours into hot, concentrated prime time, many a performer has been burned to a crisp. Will Paar char? Tune in and watch the fun--or the funeral. Color.
Sat., Sept. 22 Magic Midway (NBC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). PREMIERE of a new children's series full of circus, magic and variety acts.
Reading Room (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). PREMIRE of a new series intended to stimulate the reading habit in children 8 to 12.
Sun., Sept. 23 McKeever and the Colonel (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new comedy series about a military school, with Jackie Coogan, Allyn Joslyn, and Scott Lane.
Ensign OToole (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.).
PREMIERE of a new saltwater series about crew members of a U.S. destroyer operating in the Pacific, with Dean Jones, Jay C. Flippen.
The Jetsons (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new animated cartoon series by the same producers who draw The Flintstones. The Jetson family lives a few hundred years hence, but the corn is contemporary.
Opening Night at Lincoln Center (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Philharmonic Hall, the first building to be opened at Manhattan's new lodestone for the performing arts, is inaugurated with a benefit performance by Conductor Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Program: the Gloria from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the world premiere of a new work by Aaron Copland commissioned for the occasion, Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, and Part I of Mahler's Eighth Symphony. Choruses: the Schola Cantorum, the Juilliard Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir. Soloists: Adele Addison, Lucine Amara, Lili Chookasian, Eileen Farrell--rell, Jennie Tourel, Shirley Verrett-Carter, Donald Bell, Charles Bressler, George London, Robert Merrill, Richard Tucker, Jon Vickers.
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). With still pictures, old films and filmed personal commentary, Herbert Hoover delivers a personal memoir of Wilson, concentrating on the years 1917-21.
Mon., Sept. 24 Opening Night (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). A comedy special with Jack Benny, Andy Griffith, Garry Moore, Lucille Ball and Danny Thomas.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Shattered Glass, by Jean Ariss. A flawed but beautifully rendered novel of love between two matrimonial losers who find the courage to love and lose again.
Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, Edited by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett. This latest-to-be-edited volume of Boswell's journal cannot deepen the portrait of Johnson, but Bozzy's entertaining chatter continues delightfully as he describes the doctor, a great bag of prejudice and conversation set atop a tiny horse, clambering over the wet Scottish islands.
The Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. In this dark novel, the author, a German Jew, tries with some success to unthread the fabric of hate: Why did the Germans, Jew and Gentile, acquiesce so passively in Hitler's crime of Jewish extermination?
The Birds of Paradise, by Paul Scott. A down-and-out middle-aged man is obsessed by the memory of a summer house full of beautiful stuffed birds: a symbol of the rich confusion of his childhood in India.
The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. The author supplies a skillfully written companion volume to his excellent popular history, The White Nile, tracing the trading and war-making along Nile's shores from the 18th century to the present.
Big Mac, by Erih Kos. A Yugoslavian social satirist shows how everyone conformably sings the praise of a great, useless whale when it is lugged into Belgrade.
Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. The briskly written memoirs of a British general who fought in both World Wars and enjoyed many minor skirmishes in between.
The Inheritors, by William Golding. In the dawn of consciousness, the new race, Homo sapiens, exterminates the Neanderthal men, demonstrating the author's point that history moves in blind ways.
The Reivers, by William Faulkner. A last, loving look at Yoknapatawpha County, where the violence of earlier novels is replaced by high comedy.
The Scandalous Mr. Bennett, by Richard O'Connor. A diverting chronicle of fabled New York Herald Owner James Gordon Bennett Jr., whose eccentric doings were calculated to raise both his paper's circulation and his own blood pressure, and did.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2) 3. The Prize, Wallace (6) 4. Another Country, Baldwin (5) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3) 6. Uhuru, Ruark (7) 7. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 8. Hornblower and the Hotspur, Forester 9. Franny and Zooey, Salinger 10. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (8)
NONF1CTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. O Ye Jigs and Juleps!, Hudson (4) 4. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (3) 5. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (7) 6. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (6) 7. Veeck--as in Wreck, Veeck (9) 8. JFK Coloring Book, Kannon and Roman 9. One Man's Freedom, Williams (8) 10. The Blue Nile, Moorehead
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