Wednesday, October 9
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.).* Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Stanley Kubrick's outrageously wild but sobering satire about nuclear war. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens.
Thursday, October 10
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Stephanie Powers portrays a comely corpse who is brought back to life.
Friday, October 11
APOLLO VII (NBC, 10 a.m. to conclusion). NBC News coverage of first manned earth-orbital flight in Apollo lunar capsule, Launch time: 11 a.m. Barring difficulties, the first live television pictures will be flashed directly from Apollo VII next morning at 10:55.
Saturday, October 12
SUMMER OLYMPICS (ABC, 1-3 p.m.). Opening ceremonies of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, live from Mexico City--barring difficulties of a more terrestrial nature--student disruptions, that is. ABC coverage of the 119-nation competition is scheduled to continue through Oct. 27 beginning Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Again Monday and Tuesday, 1-2 p.m.
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Highlights of the grueling Le Mans 24-hour endurance race.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Help! (1965). Director Dick Lester sends the Beatles on a mad romp with a band of bloodthirsty Orientals.
Sunday, October 13
FACE THE NATION (CBS, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Interview with GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew.
Monday, October 14
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Hope's guests are Gwen Verdon and David Janssen.
Tuesday, October 15
CBS PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "The People Next Door." Lloyd Bridges, Kim Hunter, Fritz Weaver and Phyllis Newman star in J. P. Miller's drama about two middle-class families tormented by their children's rebellion.
THAT'S LIFE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Honeymoon." Robert Goulet, Alan King and Kay Medford join Robert Morse and E. J. Peaker in a musical comedy about the tribulations of matrimony.
Check local listings for dates and times of these NET specials:
NET PLAYHOUSE. Across the River. Feature film starring veteran Broadway actor Lou Gilbert in the story of an eccentric ragman on the Manhattan waterfront whose attempt to help an abandoned girl leads to his own destruction.
NET FESTIVAL. "The Rite of Spring." Documentary of Los Angeles Philharmonic Conductor Zubin Mehta, filmed during rehearsals and performance of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring."
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. Richard Castellano is superbly sad and funny as a long-wed father contemplating the wreck of his son's marriage.
THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH is a dramatic offspring of the Adolf Eichmann trial, reviving the stale questions of German guilt, Jewish passivity, and the paranoid personality of the archkiller. The play's best excuse for being is a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity by Donald Pleasence. He is like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide or yet disown. He is as hallucinatorily real as a dream from which one cannot awaken.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Tom Stoppard's inside look at Hamlet, takes the little men of Elsinore and transforms them into little Everymen.
Off Broadway
THE BOYS IN THE BAND. An honest play about a set of mixed-up human beings who happen to be homosexuals.
A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. Eugene O'Neill's lament for the loveless haunted by ghosts of the past.
RECORDINGS
Jazz
HERBIE HANCOCK, SPEAK LIKE A CHILD (Blue Note). This piano album is a fine montage of pastel moods. Delicately blended harmonic shades slide and merge in misty orchestrations of Speak and Goodbye to Childhood (with Thad Jones on fluegelhorn, Peter Phillips on bass trombone and Jerry Dodgion on alto flute). In Riot, First Trip and Sorcerer, the piano skips along with mellow modal lines and bright blues splashes. Drummer Mickey Roker and Bassist Ron Carter are Hancock's hearty helpers.
ART BLAKEY WITH THE ORIGINAL JAZZ MESSENGERS (Jazz Odyssey). Drummer Blakey was the spark that lit up several small groups in the '50s. Here, reissued, is a particularly successful set, with one of the finest Blakey combos--Horace Silver on piano, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Donald Byrd on trumpet and Doug Watkins on bass. They play hard-bop tunes (two of which are by now familiar Silver compositions), while Blakey drives them on with a flavoring of calypso or a tight break to emphasize the beat. On InfraRae and Hank's Symphony, his throbbing rolls and cymbal cadences are spotlighted in brief but impeccable solos.
MILES DAVIS, MILES IN THE SKY (Columbia). Some small changes have crept into Trumpeter Davis' newest recording. He plays meaner, less prettily. In Paraphernalia, Guitarist George Benson augments Davis' usual group, which consists of Pianist Herbie Hancock, Tenorman Wayne Shorter, Bassist Ron Carter, Drummer Tony Williams. In Stuff, Hancock plays an electric piano that, coupled with Williams' steady rock beat, gives an earthier, more organic undertow to the trumpet's aerial treks.
THE JAZZ CRUSADERS, LIGHTHOUSE '68 (Pacific Jazz). Pride of The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., the Crusaders have plenty to say in this album and plenty of "chops" (technique) to say it with. Their musical message lies in today's mainstream --a blend of hard-rock rhythms, funky chords and uptempo bustling. Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves along with grace.
EDDIE HARRIS, PLUG ME IN (Atlantic). An electric tenor saxophone? The idea may offend jazz purists, but rock fans will get a charge out of this easygoing soul session. With capable backing from such musicians as Jimmy Owens and Joe Newman, Harris uses his extra go-power to create warmth and depth. The set gets off to a rolling, sinew-stretching start on Live Right Now, a down-home boogaloo. Harris plays with heavy-throated gentleness on the bluesy Ballad (For My Love), and with a dulcet, flowing tone on Winter Meeting. There's just a bit of metallic overlay when he turns on the juice with It's Crazy, but then that's the current sound.
ELVIN JONES, PUTT'N' IT TOGETHER (Blue Note). Drummer Jones, who played with the late John Cohrarie, became famous for his fiery musical duels with the master. With Jimmy Garrison on bass and Joe Farrell splitting three ways on tenor, soprano sax and flute, Jones here uses his flashy technique to inspire, shape and embroider a harmonically free, three-way dialogue. Reza and Jay-Ree brim with bright looping arches of sound reminiscent of Ornette Coleman. Soloing on Kei-Ko's Birthday March, Elvin gets under way with a humorous drum-corps pattern that soon turns into an exuberant display of staccato licks that would bring a real marching band to its knees.
CINEMA
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Stanley Kubrick's cosmic parable of the history and future of man contains some of the most stunning visual pyrotechnics in the history of the motion picture.
HUNGER. A grim Scandinavian-made portrait of a writer on the skids in a big city, with two outstanding performances by Per Oscarsson and Gunnel Lindblom.
RACHEL, RACHEL. Making his directorial debut in this subdued tale of a smalltown schoolteacher faced with the onset of middle age, Paul Newman extracts a towering performance from his wife, Joanne Woodward.
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. This adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel turns most of the author's poetry to humdrum visual prose, but Alan Arkin as the gentle, selfless mute John Singer lifts the film out of the ordinary.
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Under the direction of Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow gives a shivering performance as the put-upon heroine, in the film version of Ira Levin's bestseller about devil worship and other naughtiness on Manhattan's West Side.
ISABEL. Another tale of a terrified young lady, this Canadian-made film stars Genevieve Bujold as a rapidly maturing adolescent haunted by the all-too-real ghosts of her past.
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. Franc,ois Truffaut pays homage to Hitchcock in this sly and sometimes funny thriller about a widow (Jeanne Moreau) who sets out to avenge the murder of her husband.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of stories, published posthumously.
THE ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet Nam war.
TIME OUT, by David Ely. Horror stories in the modern manner, decked out with computers, spaceships and nuclear weapons --all seen with a fine observant eye for society's foibles.
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Earth. The author of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy experiments with 14 inventive pieces of fiction, some of which are intended to be heard as well as read.
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.
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. A polished novella and a long story--both about adolescence--emphasize the consequences of failing to let go of 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. A leading playwright of the theater of the absurd movingly displays his troubled spirit in a masochistic mosaic.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Airport, Hailey (1 last week)
2. Preserve and Protect, Drury (4)
3. True Grit, Portis (2)
4. Couples, Updike (3)
5. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (6)
6. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (5)
7. The Hurricane Years, Hawley
8. The Senator, Pearson (9)
9. The Queen's Confession, Holt (10)
10. Red Sky at Morning, Bradford (8)
NONFICTION
1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (2)
2. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (1)
3. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (4)
4. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (3)
5. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (5)
6. Iberia, Michener (6)
7. The Right People, Birmingham (7)
8. The Pump House Gang, Wolfe
9. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson (9)
10. The Essence of Security, McNamara
* All times E.D.T.
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