Wednesday, February 12 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).Those zany British "Beyond the Fringers"--Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore--offer a spoof of Jules Verne's 1864 novel From the Earth to the Moon.
Thursday, February 13
PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Dean Martin and Lena Home.
Friday, February 14
THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests are Julie London, Anne Bancroft and Janet Leigh.
Saturday, February 15 DO YOU KNOW? (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). The study of archaeology, based on two books by Ronald Jessup and Dorothy and Joseph Samachson. CHALLENGE GOLF (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Arnold Palmer and Gary Player challenge Tony Lema and Phil Rogers at the Desert Inn Country Club in Las Vegas. Color. THE BING CROSBY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). For his second special this season, Bing has recruited Wife Kathryn, Singers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Rosemary Clooney, and Comedian Bob Hope.
Sunday, February 16
FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Dr. Hagen Staack, professor of religion at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., discusses Joshua.
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 2:30-3 p.m.). Guest: Governor Rockefeller.
PARIS: A STORY OF HIGH FASHION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The secret and hysterical preparations behind a couturier's presentation, filmed at Pierre Cardin's salon as he got ready for his current collection. Color.
Monday, February 17
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The use of film as a propaganda instrument.
THEATER On Broadway AFTER THE FALL. Arthur Miller's return to the stage, after more than eight years of silence, is a torrent of self-revelation. The Furies who pursue the playwright are chiefly his mother and Marilyn Monroe, his second wife. Miller's version of the truth of these relationships is morally and artistically questionable but fascinating.
DYLAN chronicles the U.S. reading-tour years of Dylan Thomas' expiring life, when the poet was already posthumous but the hell raiser was very much alive.
In a display of his own greatness, Alec Guinness conveys the special hell from which the man found no exit.
HELLO, DOLLY! Clowning Carol Channing promotes a mismatch into an apparently matchless duo in this handsome, happy musical of yesteryear New York.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. By adding nonstop wit and a lovable caddishness to the standard picture of a TV wheelerdealer, Playwright Ronald Alexander has boosted the industry's ratings--at least on Broadway's laugh meter.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon, spends most of its time five flights up in the company of a couple of six-day newlyweds who are warming their Manhattan flat with love and tiffs, and furnishing it with zany laughter.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, listen attentively and watch sympathetically as the young and the not-so-young cope with the pangs, hopes, defeats, comedies, illusions and tenacities of love.
LUTHER, by John Osborne, chronicles the rising indignation, eloquence and rebellion of its hero against the 16th century church. John Heffernan has replaced Albert Finney as God's Angry Young Man.
Off Broadway
THE LOVER, by Harold Pinter and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's proper couple feasts on make-believe adultery, wrapped in mystery and mockery. Beckett's bodyless trio discusses the pains and reveals the banalities of infidelity.
THE TROJAN WOMEN. Surrounded by Greeks, the Trojan women circle and chide, protesting their unhappy condition with a moving cry against fate's tyranny--a cry that has echoed and re-echoed since Euripides wrote this classic.
CINEMA
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Director Stanley (Lolita) Kubrick's nightmare comedy about nuclear annihilation is wildly satirical and brilliantly acted by George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and (in a triple role) the protean Peter Sellers.
THE FIANCES. Italy's Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) brings total mastery of his art to this wispy tale of a long-engaged couple who must lose each other to rediscover their love.
THE GUEST. Two oddball brothers play host to a scruffy tramp. And with cracking good dialogue and superb acting, the screen version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker remains nearly as fascinating--and just as ambiguous--as it was onstage.
POINT OF ORDER. A superior documentary, extracted from TV coverage of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, vividly depicts the fall from power of a political dynamo, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
THE EASY LIFE. In this brilliant tragicomedy from Italy, Vittorio Gassman is the hedonistic hell-raiser who rescues a shy young student from his books, squanders his money, and seals his doom.
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. Despite occasional nonsense in the plot, Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen brighten this comedy about a girl who believes that a mother-to-be has certain responsibilities, such as finding a husband.
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Vermont is the setting for a surrealistic camping trip in this hilarious first feature by U.S. Director Adolfas Mekas, a hard-shell cinema nut from the Lower East Side.
BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia.
KNIFE IN THE WATER. A Polish thriller about three people aboard a Freudian sloop on which there's many a slip.
TO BED OR NOT TO BED. As an Italian fur merchant investigating sex in Sweden,
Alberto Sordi finds the climate better suited to frostbite.
TOM JONES. From Fielding's bawdy, boisterous 18th century classic, Director Tony Richardson has fashioned one of the best movies in many years.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE AMERICAN IRISH, by William V. Shannon. The author examines the role that the Irish have played in shaping American institutions, their strong if sometimes misapplied political instincts, their cultural contribution.
THE GOLDEN FRUITS, by Nathalie Sarraute. At the publication of an important novel, the literary giants and their followers gather to obscure the book with their own shrill opinions. Novelist Sarraute uses the occasion for a witty dissection of cultural toadies and intellectual conformity.
THE RAGMAN'S DAUGHTER, by Alan Sillitoe. Spirited short stories, by the author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, about the lives of Britain's lower-downs.
THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. The decline of a rich old family is usually messy and public rather than slow and sequestered, and when it is, the process can be funny as well as sad. That is the case in this brilliant, merciless novel.
JAMES FORRESTAL, by Arnold A. Rogow. Except for some weirdly psychoanalytical conclusions, this is a careful biography of the U.S.'s first Secretary of Defense, a brilliant, mercurial man whose drive and ambition were limitless but whose soul floundered in despond.
THE BELLS OF SHOREDITCH, by James Kennaway. An acid satire of a weak-kneed young socialist whose wife goads him into trying to copy the big boss, thus extracting a rich, unexplored vein of pure capitalist.
LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. In this wild but trenchant metaphysical farce, a young nuclear physicist decides that men from another planet will redeem the earth. They never materialize, but many far-out earthlings do.
THE PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The final volume of a sympathetic biographical trilogy on Trotsky.
Best Sellers FICTION 1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (2)
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (3)
4. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (7)
5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (4)
6. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (8)
7. Caravans, Michener (6)
8. The Living Reed, Buck (5)
9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (9)
10. The Three Sirens, Wallace
NONFICTION 1. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (1)
2. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (2)
3. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (3)
4. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (6)
5. Rascal, North (5)
6. The American Way of Death, Mitford (4)
7. My Years with General Motors, Sloan
8. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (8)
9. The Quiet Crisis, Udall
10. Dorothy and Red, Sheean (7)
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