TELEVISION
Wednesday, October 2
BASEBALL WORLD SERIES (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion).* The Cardinals and the Tigers begin their best-of-seven series at Busch Stadium, St. Louis. Second game Thursday, same time. Third and fourth games Saturday and Sunday from Tiger Stadium, 1 p.m. If necessary, fifth game will be played Monday in Detroit.
ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.). Cat Ballon (1965). Lee Marvin in his Oscar-winning dual role as a drunken gunfighter and a hilariously sinister killer. Also stars Jane Fonda.
Thursday, October 3
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Night of the Iguana (1964). John Huston directs one of the best movies ever made from a Tennessee Williams play. Richard Burton is the renegade reverend, Deborah Kerr the peripatetic painter and Ava Gardner the rampant tramp.
Saturday, October 5
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:45-4:15 p.m.). The National Drag Racing Championships from Indianapolis; and International Figure Skating from West Berlin.
N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4:15-7:30 p.m.). University of Washington v. Oregon State.
NBC SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Khartoum (1966). Cinerama spectacle of the 1884 Moslem siege of the British-held fortress at Khartoum.
With Charlton Heston, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson, Nigel Green and Richard Johnson.
Sunday, October 6
OLYMPIC PREVIEW SPECIAL (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Sports Commentators Chris Schenkel, Jim McKay and Bill Flemming pick U.S. and international Olympic favorites. Also films of past Olympic games.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Contender," Part 1. Former Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson guest-stars as a boxing-syndicate henchman who is kayoed by the impossible missions force.
Monday, October 7
THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Trini Lopez and Nanette Fabray join Carol in spoofing soapers ("As the Stomach Turns") and westerns ("The Mild, Mild West").
Tuesday, October 8
NBC TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Gambit (1966). A lesson in international cat burglary, with Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine.
Check local listings for date and time of this NET special:
THE POPULATION PROBLEM. "Brazil--The Gathering Millions." This documentary traces the migration of farm workers from Brazil's hinterlands, where work is scarce, to urban areas where for some there is nothing but further despair. First in a six-part series on the problems of overpopulation in the world.
THEATER
On Broadway LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. Four diverting playlets about love, sex, and marriage. While not overly witty or wise, they foam with gentle laughter.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. In Tom Stoppard's arresting drama on inevitability, the Wittenberg Wunderkinder wander around Elsinore like two extras to whom no roles have been as signed, and who cannot even decipher whether they are part of a comedy or a tragedy.
PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon makes three bids to provide amusement and, ably assisted by Director Mike Nichols and Actors Maureen Stapleton and E. G. Marshall, scores a grand slam.
Off Broadway
A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. The ghost of the past haunts this Eugene O'Neill drama, upsetting the appetite of anyone who hopes to partake of the feast of life. Three emotionally starved characters hunger for a love that is denied them.
THE BOYS IN THE BAND. Mart Crowley's play deals with homosexuality coolly and honestly, lancing bitchy merriment with desolating insight. Kenneth Nelson and Leonard Frey play the host and guest of honor at a homosexual birthday party with skill and grace.
SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. The playwright sprays comic vitriol at countless pet hates.
RECORDINGS
Bargain Basement
There are four new low-priced LPs ($2.50 apiece) that even the extravagant will want to acquire, for they display some of the century's finest performers at their peak:
THE ART OF ALEXANDER KIPNIS (Seraphim). Kipnis began singing in Europe's opera houses and concert halls at a time when his Russian compatriot Chaliapin was the international rage; Kipnis never quite escaped the eclipse. Yet, as this group of songs and operatic arias proves, he had one of the greatest natural bass voices of all time--clear, penetrating, full of steel in its low range, all coppery and burnished higher up. Moreover, he had an elegance and impeccability of style that Chaliapin did not always display. And whereas Chaliapin confined himself largely to the music of his native land, Kipnis did not disdain the operas and songs of the West. These recordings--arias by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Wagner, and songs by Schubert, Brahms and Wolf--were made between 1930 and 1936. Most are released now for the first time on LP.
GUIDO CANTELLI: Debussy's La Mer, Nuages, Fetes and Prelude `a I'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. The Philharmonia Orchestra (Seraphim). "Now here is a conductor, a good conductor." So spoke Arturo Toscanini after having heard his protege Guido Cantelli rehearse the NBC Symphony for the first time in 1949. Like Toscanini, Cantelli possessed a sense of large-scale structure as well as a gift for illuminating orchestral detail. But while the older man's performances were charged with tension, Cantelli's were relaxed, songful and uncommonly graceful. These interpretations are a sobering reminder of music's loss: at 36, Cantelli was killed in a plane crash in 1956.
ATAULFO ARGENTA: Debussy's linages pour Orchestre--Gigues, Iberia, Rondes de Printemps. L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (London Stereo Treasury). Another conductor whose career ended violently was Spain's Ataulfo Argenta, killed at 44 in an auto accident in 1958. Argenta was a musician in the Toscanini-Cantelli tradition; his Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Ravel were outstanding. In this collection, he proved his mastery of the subtle colors, treacherous rhythms, and delicate contrapuntal lines that fashioned Debussy's impressionistic soundscapes.
THE ART OF ZINKA MILANOV (RCA Victrola). This is a collection of arias from La Forza del Destino, La Gioconda, A Ida, II Trovatore and Un Ballo in Maschera, recorded between 1951 and 1955. At no other period during her 29-year career with the Met (1937-1966) did the Yugoslav soprano (nee Zinka Kunc) match so well the lustrous opulence, moonlight pianissimos and steady vocal control that are so obvious here. The extraterrestrial lightness of her opening high F natural in "Pace, pace, mio dio" from La Forza is undoubtedly one of the great moments in all recorded opera.
CINEMA
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. Director Fran?ois Truffaut pays unabashed homage to Alfred Hitchcock in this sly, tautly acted thriller about a homicidal widow (Jeanne Moreau) who sets out to avenge the murder of her husband.
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. A subtle and probing performance by Alan Arkin as a deaf-mute brings poetry to this rather prosaic adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel.
ISABEL. Canada's Genevieve Bujold generates an air of adolescent terror in the chilling tale of a young girl growing rapidly to womanhood while tormented by the memories of another life.
RACHEL, RACHEL. Paul Newman makes his debut as a director in this quiet tale of a frustrated schoolteacher entering middle age. His wife, Joanne Woodward, gives the film added stature with her achingly real portrayal of the heroine.
ROSEMARY'S BABY. This film version of Ira Levin's bestselling tale of devil worship in Manhattan proves that Mia Farrow is not just a singer's exwife. Her performance is at the Oscar level.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. A cosmic parable of once and future man, directed by Stanley Kubrick. The visually magnificent scenes of space travel are out of this world.
VOYAGE OF SILENCE. This deceptively simple story of a young Portuguese carpenter emigrating to Paris is a small masterpiece of compassionate observation and emotional restraint.
BOOKS
Best Reading
BRIEF AGAINST DEATH, by Edgar Smith. An impassioned did-I-do-it? written in the New Jersey death house by the convicted murderer of a 15-year-old girl.
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Barth. The author of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy experiments with 14 highly inventive pieces of fiction, some of which are intended to be heard as well as read.
OUTER DARK, by Cormac McCarthy. A backwoods brother and sister, their abandoned child, and three archetypal murderers are the major elements in this Southern gothic horror story.
THE BLACKING FACTORY and PENNSYLVANIA GOTHIC, by Wilfrid Sheed. Funny, feverish and very finely wrought accounts --a short novel and a long story--of two adolescents whose futures are staked out by their fantasies about the past.
ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. The Italian novelist listens to young love's first brave banalities with a nice ear for irony.
FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. In a chaotic but painfully fascinating self-analysis, a leading playwright of the Theater of the Absurd discusses the neurotic roots of his art.
THE PUMP HOUSE GANG and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. America's foremost and wittiest pop journalist presents a swinging mixed-media word show of articles about life styles and a nonfictional novel about the peregrinations of Novelist Ken Kesey and his acid-generation Pranksters.
THE CASE AGAINST CONGRESS, by Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Misfeasance, malfeasance and other assorted knaveries by federal legislators are uncovered by the team of political columnists.
THE DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, by Romain Gary. The classic Jewish gambit--finding macabre humor in extreme tribulation--is used with uncommon originality in this allegorical novel of genocide and national guilt.
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A collection of short stories and essays in which the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex.
THE BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN, by Ayi Kwei Armah. A Ghanaian novelist's parable about man's struggle for liberty and dignity, staged in post-revolutionary West Africa.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Airport, Hailey (1 last week)
2. True Grit, Portis (2)
3. Couples, Updike (3)
4. Preserve and Protect, Drury
5. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (4)
6. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes
7. Heaven Help Us, Tarr (5)
8. Red Sky at Morning, Bradford (6)
9. The Senator, Pearson (9)
10. The Queen's Confession, Holt (8)
NONFICTION
1. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (1)
2. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (2)
3. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber(3)
4. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (4)
5. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (7)
6. Iberia, Michener (5)
7. The Right People, Birmingham
8. The Naked Ape, Morris (10)
9. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson (6)
10. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker (8)
* All times E.D.T.
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