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Wednesday, February 15

CHRYSLER PRESENTS

A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* There's Hope aplenty in this galaxy of guests, including the golden Goldfinger girl, Shirley Eaton, and Jill St. John, Carol Lawrence and Tony Bennett.

THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy Williams emcees the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards for the best in movies and television. Sandy Koufax and Herb Alpert will pass out the bright, shiny orbs.

Friday, February 17

THE CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). Pepe (1960), starring Cantinflas, Dan Dailey and Shirley Jones, with cameo parts by half of Hollywood.

Saturday, February 18

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Bobsled Championship from Grenoble, France, and the New York Athletic Club Track and Field Meet from Madison Square Garden.

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby hosts Ella Fitzgerald, Phil Harris and Alice Faye.

Sunday, February 19

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). A visit to the Manhattan home and singing classes of Soprano Jennie Tourel for her opinions of "The Artist as Teacher."

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). National Indoor Tennis Championships from Salisbury, Md.

NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). The first in a series of specials designed to show something different in TV drama, comedy, variety and documentaries. "Losers Weepers" is an original drama by Harry Dolan, a member of Budd Schulberg's writers' workshop in the Watts area of Los Angeles (Time, July 22). Pemiere.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite gives a glimpse of new vehicles for long journeys in "A Trip to Chicago."

INDONESIA: THE TROUBLED VICTORY (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Ted Yates reports on the continuing ideological struggle in Indonesia in the third and final part of NBC News's "The Battle for Asia."

THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). For an hour of togetherness, Jack Benny and George Burns join with the Brothers in an attempt to smother Nielsen's No. 1 Bonanza.

Tuesday, February 21

ANDY GRIFFITH'S UPTOWN-DOWNTOWN SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight it's Don Knotts, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Maggie Peterson with the Bruce Davis Quintet, and a folk-rock group known as the Back Porch Majority.

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to conclusion). Gene Barry stars in the film version of H. G. Wells's classic War of the Worlds (1953).

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays).

The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde's delightful farce stars Patrick (The Avengers) Macnee, Susannah York, Pamela Brown, Ian Carmichael and William Redmond.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "After the Miracle" examines the 18-year-old nation of Israel from university to kibbutz, and from Bedouin tent to hostile border--mostly through the eyes of its young people.

THEATER

THE HOMECOMING is the season's most tantalizing drama, by Harold Pinter, who prods and arouses with the twin-tined fork of shock and humor. Vivien Merchant leads the Royal Shakespeare Company through a moody production in which even the pauses are eloquent.

THE WILD DUCK. The destruction wrought by an integrity that is more cruel than compassionate is the theme of Henrik Ibsen's drama about a determined idealist who enters a household that is constructed on compromise and held together by gentle illusions. Played competently by the APA repertory company.

AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They guide their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank.

WALKING HAPPY is an old-fashioned musical with an old-fashioned charm, enhanced by little Norman Wisdom, whose big talent carries the show.

SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE are studies of one of the most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is gleefully exposed and undone. In Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, a nest of vipers invades the privacy of a family and destroys the tenuous balance of their lives. The APA again.

Off Broadway

EH? In Henry Livings' farce, a mod menace (Dustin Hoffman) creates his own universe, where what goes up does not necessarily fall down, where illogic is logical and nonsense makes sense.

AMERICA HURRAH is composed of three hypodermic playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie, who plunges through the surface of the American way of life to hit the raw network of nerves on which it runs.

RECORDS

Jazz

THE 2ND JOHN HANDY ALBUM (Columbia). The hit of last summer's jazz festival at Monterey, Handy's quintet consists of his own sax, a violin, a guitar, bass and drums--all of which contribute to a complex, light-textured cacophony that is very close to contemporary classical chamber music, especially in long pieces like his Scheme #1. Handy can also produce tongue-in-cheek rock 'n' roll like Blues for a Highstrung Guitar with both wit and warmth.

DEDICATED TO DOLPHY (Cambridge). "Jazz has evolved from a folk music into an art music," said Gunther Schuller, explaining the kind of atonal, far-out compositions that he, John Lewis, Harold Farberman and Bill Smith have written for this album. The results are cooler and more cerebral than those of Eric Dolphy, the late wild-blowing, note-bending alto saxophonist. But Bill Smith (on clarinet) and the other instrumentalists are first-rate, and the music, though it seldom swings, consistently sizzles.

BYRDLAND (Columbia). As one of the first importers of bossa nova, Charlie Byrd still likes to toss off a samba or two on his amplified guitar, and he can pluck soul from folk-blues like Work Song, but mostly he keeps up a sophisticated patter with pop hits (Theme from "Mr. Lucky") and old ballads (I'll Be Around).

MONDAY, MONDAY (RCA Victor). The Paul Horn Quintet has borrowed Monday, Monday from the Mamas and the Papas, Norwegian Wood from the Beatles and Satisfaction from the Rolling Stones, and given them all a high gloss. The decorations are pretty, but the songs sounded jazzier the way they were in the beginning. A comedown from Reedman Horn's eloquent performance on last year's Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts.

BAROQUE SKETCHES (Columbia). Some imaginative and energetic forays in the boundary land between jazz and the classics by the lyrical Flugelhorn of Art Farmer and a big "baroque orchestra" bright with brasses. The mixed company of composers includes Chopin, Albeniz and Sonny Rollins (Alfie's Theme) along with Bach (Air on the G String and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring). Pretty wiggy.

THE POPULAR DUKE ELLINGTON (RCA Victor). "Popular" refers not only to the Duke but in this instance to these compositions that will forever be the background music of the '20s, '30s and '40s--classics like Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, I Got It Bad and Take the "A" Train. The Duke's piano is smoothly articulate and the new performances by his virtuoso orchestra are moody and melting.

HANK CRAWFORD MR BLUES (Atlantic). Crawford, who came to his own band from Ray Charles's, specializes in the blues, but he goes after them so vigorously that he turns them into outbursts of affirmation. His instrument for these determined attacks is usually the alto sax, although he can also operate very effectively with the piano. Half the pieces are his own, but most of the others, like Lonely Avenue, also burst with swinging good spirits.

CINEMA

LA GUERRE EST FINIE. The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939 for all but a dwindling group of long-memoried men. Director Alain Resnais' evocation of those memories is at times pat and prolonged, but Singer-Actor Yves Montand as Diego, an old rebel with a past but no future, breathes an air of melancholy strength into the film.

YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW. Bernard (Peter Kastner) is a little boy who grows up absurd, wavering between his girl friends (Elizabeth Hartman, Karen Black) and his parents (Geraldine Page, Rip Torn). Though the farce is sometimes forced, this first major-league effort by Writer-Director Francis Ford Coppola suggests bigger things to come.

TO BE A CROOK. Four movie-struck factory workers cast themselves as Robin Hoods and quit their jobs to play a crimefilled scenario in the streets of Paris. The fun and games end when a real cop tries to arrest them. Four French unknowns turn in poignant performances under the sensitive direction of Claude Lelouch (A Man and A Woman).

BLOWUP. A photographer escapes his mod models for an afternoon and wanders after a pair of bucolic lovers, whom he snaps on the sly. In a brilliant episode back in the darkroom, he develops his film and his dilemma. Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni records the London scene--and some things that are not seen --in his first English film.

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Robert Bolt's hit play about Sir Thomas More has been transformed into a brilliant film for all seasons by Director Fred Zinnemann and a notable cast led by Paul Scofield.

BOOKS

Best Reading

INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, by John Gunther. A political travelogue of the South American continent, conducted by an expert tour guide who knows all the sights and sounds but moves too briskly to explain them thoroughly.

PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. As a nervous newcomer to the squad, Plimpton persuaded members of the Detroit Lions football team to talk seriously and precisely about their roles, their skills and how a Sunday's campaign is plotted. The result is by far the best book to date on pro football.

HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1930-1939, edited by Nigel Nicolson. The author was always near the center of the action at Whitehall, and he knew London's brilliant and beautiful people. There is rare immediacy to his diaries--faithfully jotted down after breakfast every morning for most of a decade.

DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis Ferdinand Celine. The founding father of black humor in a new, splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred.

THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY, by Vance Bourjaily. A civilized and affecting fictional account of how the generation closest to J.F.K. in age and aspirations took his death.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (1 last week)

2. Capable of Honor, Drury (2)

3. The Birds Fall Down, West (3)

4. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (4)

5. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (5)

6. All in the Family, O'Connor (6)

7. Tai-Pan, Clavell (9)

8. The Fixer, Malamud (7)

9. The Captain, De Hartog (8)

10. A Dream of Kings, Petrakis

NONFICTION

1. Everything But Money, Levenson (2)

2. Paper Lion, Plimpton (3)

3. Madame Sarah, Skinner (4)

4. The Jury Returns, Nizer (1)

5. Rush to Judgment, Lane (6)

6. Games People Play, Berne (5)

7. Random House Dictionary of the English Language (8)

8. The Boston Strangler, Frank (7)

9. Winston S. Churchill, Churchill

10. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (10)

*All times E.S.T

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