TELEVISION

Wednesday, February 19 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "The Flight from Hollywood," a survey of the shift to international moviemaking, with comments from such notables as George Stevens, John Huston, Otto Preminger and Marlon Brando.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are John Mills and his daughter Hayley.

Thursday, February 20 JONATHAN WINTERS PRESENTS (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A special with Art Carney and the New Christy Minstrels.

Saturday, February 22 THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly is guest M.C., with the Jose Greco Dancers and Singer Delia Reese.

Sunday, February 23

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). An interview with Adlai Stevenson.

ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). "Dublin Through Different Eyes" presents different views of the city by various Dubliners. Photography by Walter Lassally, cameraman for Tom Jones.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Depressed Areas, U.S.A."

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Guests: The Beatles.

DU PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Gambling Heart," a comedy starring Ruth White, Tom Bosley and Sarah Marshall.

Monday, February 24 MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The film biography of Edwin Booth, Prince of Players, starring Richard Burton.

Tuesday, February 25 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 1,000th broadcast (radio and TV) of this U.S. institution.

THEATER

On Broadway RUGANTINO, an Italian language musical with English titles suspended over the stage, is a pleasant Broadway novelty.

Its bawdry is innocent, its humor is earthy, its girls look blessedly like girls, and its picaresque hero is forever out witting himself.

AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong, and the wrongs he did them. The play's close ness to Miller's life belongs more properly to voyeurism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur.

DYLAN. In his final years, Dylan Thomas mourned in drink the distance between himself and the height of his poetic pow ers. Sir Alec Guinness is just the actor to show the humor, insight and inner pain of the sinking man.

HELLO, DOLLY! 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 wheeler-dealer, Playwright Ronald Alexander has boosted the industry's ratings--at least on the Broadway 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, tiffs and laughter.

LUTHER. Outraged by clerical abuses, tormented by physical pain, Luther had the strength to struggle with both, and, in words matching the imagery of his physical infirmities with the force of his purpose, he launched the Reformation.

Off Broadway

THE LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's proper couple feast 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. Vanquished and about to be enslaved, the Trojan women eloquently vent their passions to create in the playgoer a desolating sense of the agony of war and the immutability of man's fate.

IN WHITE AMERICA. A documentary that illuminates today's upheaval in race relations, In White America details Negro-white discord from cotton picker and master to civil rights leader and U.S. President.

CINEMA

DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Peter Sellers and George C. Scott are brilliant in Director Stanley Kubrick's audacious, morbidly funny satire on the sober subject of nuclear war.

THE FIANCES. From the simple tale of a long-engaged couple enduring a painful separation, Italian Director Ermanno Olmi has created a minor cinema classic.

SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. The ways of maids and men-about-Manhattan are explored once more, but Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor and Cliff Robertson nip through this will-she-or-won't-she farce with contagious exuberance.

THE GUEST. On film, Harold Pinter's The Caretaker retains much of the eerie fascination it generated onstage. Donald Pleasence repeats his matchless performance as the raving old derelict whose war with existence may or may not be Everyman's.

POINT OF ORDER. A superior documentary, extracted from TV coverage of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, vividly depicts the fall of 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.

BILLY LIAR. Working-class life in Britain inspires a social cipher (Tom Courtenay) to imagine a faster, funnier world where his own word is law.

TO BED OR NOT TO BED. Alberto Sordi plays an Italian fur merchant testing some hopelessly romantic notions about sowing one's oats in Stockholm.

LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. A Macy's salesgirl (Natalie Wood) hazards a fling with a sometime musician (Steve McQueen), and this tough-minded little comedy takes it from there, neatly improvising on a humdrum theme.

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.

KNIFE IN THE WATER. A Polish thriller about three people aboard a Freudian sloop on which there's many a slip.

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

COOPER'S CREEK, by Alan Moorehead. The author provides his native Australia with a singularly bitter national myth--the story of two explorers, Burke and Wills, who in 1861 became the first to cross their continent from south to north, and discovered that its heart was an unsalvageable desert.

REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. This satire of suburbia has a serious mes sage: the commuter's jargon, with its self-analysis and narcissism, is not just a cultivated mannerism but a disease.

A GOD AND HIS GIFTS, by I. Compton-Burnett. The "god" in this acerbic novel is a memorable domestic tyrant whose crimes are limited to the people closely related to him.

A FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shillitoe, a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers.

THE GOLDEN FRUITS, by Nathalie Sarraute. This is a subtle novel about the publication of an important new novel, and Novelist Sarraute uses the occasion for a witty dissection of cultural toadies and intellectual conformity.

THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. The decline of a rich old family can be messy and public rather than slow and sequestered. When it is, the process can be funny as well as sad. That is the case in this brilliant, merciless novel.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week) 2. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (4)

3. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (3)

4. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (2)

5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (5)

6. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6)

7. Caravans, Michener (7)

8. The Living Reed, Buck (8)

9. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer 10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service,

Fleming (9)

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 (4)

5. Rascal, North (5)

6. My Years With General Motors, Sloan (7)

7. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris 8. Every Night, Josephine, Susann

9. The American Way of Death, Mitford (6)

10. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (8)

-All times E.S.T.

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