TELEVISION
Thursday, March 23
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.).*William Holden and Lilli Palmer in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), based on the real-life exploits of Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who sympathized with the Germans but spied for the Allied High Command in World War II.
Friday, March 24
THE CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier in his Academy Award-winning role of an ex-G.I. who lends a helping hand to five German immigrant nuns in Lilies of the Field (1963).
Saturday, March 25
MISS TEEN INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Noel Harrison and Sally Field do the honors as contestants from nine nations vie for the title.
Sunday, March 26
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1967 N.C.A.A. SW'MMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS (NBC, 2:30-4 p.m.). From Michigan State University in East Lansing.
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The World Ski-Flying Championships from Oberstdorf, Germany, where the wind currents and the long, steep slope permit jumps of fantastic length. Plus the Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Championships from Hawaii.
NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "We Interrupt This Season" tosses a barbed lampoon at some staples of TV programming: election coverage, weather reporting, guided tours of famous places and those late-late, talk-talk shows.
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Hand in Hand, from Britain, tells of the friendship between a little Catholic boy and a Jewish girl, and how they learn for themselves that one God watches over all.
PENSACOLA GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). The final rounds from the Pensacola Country Club in Atlantic Beach, Fla.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). An optimistic report that after the year 2000, doctors will be able to replace worn-out or diseased parts of the human body by substituting new organs, both real and synthetic, thus creating a "manmade man."
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "An Easter Greeting: Selections from Handel's Messiah,'" performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, featuring Soprano Phyllis Curtin, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Tenor Richard Lewis from the Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver.
MARINELAND CARNIVAL (CBS, 7-8 p.m.). In the fifth edition of Marineland Carnival, Art Carney, as a vacationer from Brooklyn, and Jim Backus, as a frustrated TV director, "discover" Singer Nancy Ames as they watch the high-leaping dolphin and other denizens of the Florida aquarium.
THE ROBE (ABC, 7-9:30 p.m.). Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Richard Boone and Michael Rennie star in this (1953) version of the Lloyd C.
Douglas novel about the life of Christ and a man whose life was radically changed by the sacred garment Christ wore to his Crucifixion. The sponsor, Ford Motor Co., gives everyone an added Easter present by settling for only one commercial break.
THE TONY AWARDS (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Mary Martin and Robert Preston co-host the Antoinette Perry Awards, Broadway's most glamorous tribute to the best shows and performers of the season. On hand to pass out the laurels: Lauren Bacall, Harry Belafonte, Kirk Douglas, John Forsythe, Marge and Gower Champion, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury.
Monday, March 27
LENINGRAD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A documentary of the past and present of Russia's second largest city, re-creating some of its great moments, explaining how it differs from most Communist towns, and describing life there today.
THEATER
On Broadway
BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer, might be called "Blowout." A frantic two-timer and furniture snatcher (Michael Crawford) tries to salvage his romance and career in an antic and amusing blindman's bluff when the lights go out on a crucial and crowded evening.
THE HOMECOMING. Who conquers and exploits whom is the question, as Harold Pinter pits the strength of five men v. the power of one woman. The answer depends on each man's interpretation. The Royal Shakespeare Company's production, directed by Peter Hall, is properly tense and intense.
THE APA REPERTORY COMPANY, with Rosemary Harris, offers a well-conceived, well-balanced dramatic diet for those who hunger for theatrical classics and hits of the past. School for Scandal, The Wild Duck, War and Peace and You Can't Take It With You are currently given felicitous, competent revivals.
AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. The hu mor of Michael Flanders' and Donald Swann's revue resembles a martini: it goes down smoothly, is slightly sly, and definitely dry.
CABARET is all binding and no book. The ambiance of the musical, set in the decadent Berlin of the 1930s, is as sinuous and sexy as aboriginal sin, but the show's plot line and score are all predictability and convention.
Off Broadway
EH? is Henry Livings' broad farce that asks whether a young man with a merry-go-round mentality can find happiness in a square world.
AMERICA HURRAH. Jean-Claude van Itallie melds pop art and the theater of cruelty as he leads his audience through a modern Inferno of cocktail parties, urban herds, political cant and psychoanalytic jargon.
RECORDS
Pop SOFTLY, AS I LEAVE YOU (Columbia). Just about all Eydie Gorme has to say is goodbye, or is it au revoir? (For All We Know, Every Time We Say Goodbye, What's Good About Goodbye?). Actually she doesn't need words. Her message is her medium. She sculpts each song, shaping it with pauses tremolos, sharp-edged cries and velvet sighs.
A TASTE OF "SHERRY!" (RCA Victor) is more like a belt of whisky as Nightclub Singer Marilyn Maye pours it out in her fourth LP. She offers a welcome to Cabaret and displays the effortless amplitude of her voice in ballads like Too Much in Love.
BLOW-UP (MGM). The sound track of the Antonioni movie bears up well, the mod moods shifting from abstract jazz shorthand to silky swing to funky blues to rock 'n' roll. The score was written by | Herbie Hancock, one of the best young avant-garde jazz pianists around, who performs it with an excellent jazz ensemble and an assist by the Yardbirds.
HEART & SOUL (Project 3) finds Guitarist Tony Mottola agreeably plucking out a dozen soft-headed ballads (Little Girl Blue, Love Is Here to Stay, The Impossible Dream) with occasional underlining and punctuation by saxophone, organ and percussion. Project 3 is a new label, featuring a warm and immediate sound achieved by recording with magnetic film.
JOAN SUTHERLAND SINGS NOEL COWARD (London). The Australian prima donna has no chance for operatic fireworks but lights little sparklers from Conversation Piece, Bitter Sweet and three later musicals, while Noel himself makes a veddy charming bow (/'// Follow My Secret Heart). The orchestra is lush; the violins sway with the nostalgic waltzes that are light years away from today's Broadway.
CALYPSO IN BRASS (RCA Victor). The Tijuana Brass burnished the sound of the Mexican mariachi band, and now Harry Belafonte has added the alloy to the music of the Caribbean. Belafonte's personal exuberance, however, triumph over the instrumentation. The accent in the album is definitely on calypso, as in Cocoanut Woman and The Naughty Little Flea.
A MAN AND A WOMAN (United Artists). The score of last year's Cannes award-winning film reflects the luminous glow and quiet lyricism of the photography. A sleeper, the sound-track recording laid low on the bestselling charts for four months, has now suddenly awakened with a start.
CINEMA
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette.
PERSONA. Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman's 27th film (and first in 2 years) is a difficult but rewarding study of the psychological transference between an actress (Liv Ullman), who stops participating in life, and a nurse (Bibi Andersson), whose personality becomes enmeshed in that of her actress-patient.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. A fairly successful reincarnation of the 1961 Broadway musical hit, with Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee still excellent in their original roles.
THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Peter Weiss's play, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Peter Brook, was the decade's most cinematic drama, as this film brilliantly demonstrates.
DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi
Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail.
BLOWUP. Director Michelangelo Antonioni's far-out, uptight and vibrantly exciting thriller-parable.
LA GUERRE EST FINIE. An old Spanish Communist (Yves Montand) who has a past without a future is pitted against new terrorists who have a future without a past.
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Playwright Robert Bolt's literate theater work on the martyrdom of Sir Thomas More makes every bit as good a movie, with Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas.
BOOKS
Best Reading
BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. A formidable biography that disassembles Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay and then carefully spreads the many pieces on the gym floor.
THE THORN TREES, by John Mclntosh. Set in a fictional counterpart of Bechuanaland, the novel tells with special horror how the white man's civilization can fail in the face of its creator's degeneracy and corruption.
A SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Joyce's dream-ridden masterpiece was 17 years in the writing and could easily have been 17 more in the reading until Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) came to the rescue, cutting it by two-thirds. Joyce's vast wealth of verbal sound and association remains intact.
THE LAST ONE LEFT, by John MacDonald. How to bungle the theft of $800,000 on land and sea--in one suspenseful lesson by a veteran (53 books) of the thriller school.
THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY, by Vance Bourjaily. An evocation of the memories of a whole Kennedy generation, this novel is the first major effort in fictional form to probe the impact of November 1963 on Kennedy's contemporaries.
THE SOLDIER'S ART, by Anthony Powell. War's brutal choreography, scored in the eighth novel of Powell's marathon masterpiece. Here his central character, Nick Jenkins, dances mindlessly through the bumf (paperwork) that accompanies all programmed violence--in this instance World War II.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Arrangement, Kazan (3 last week) 2. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (1)
3. Capable of Honor, Drury (2)
4. The Captain, De Hartog (4)
5. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (6)
6. The Birds Fall Down, West (7)
7. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (5)
8. The Fixer, Malamud (9)
9. All in the Family, O'Connor (10) 10. Tai-Pan, Clavell (8)
NONFICTION 1. Madame Sarah, Skinner (1)
2. Everything But Money, Levenson (2)
3. The Jury Returns, Nizer (4)
4. Games People Play, Berne (5)
5. Paper Lion, Plimpton (3)
6. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (6)
7. Inside South America, Gunther (7)
8. The Boston Strangler, Frank (9)
9. The Bitter Heritage, Schlesinger 10. Rush to Judgment, Lane (8)
* All times E.S.T.
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