TELEVISION
Wednesday, February 5
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* David McCallum, Ossie Davis and George Grizzard star in Teacher, Teacher, an original drama by Allan Sloane, about the struggle to teach a mentally retarded teen-ager played by Billy Schulman.
TURN-ON (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A computer hosts and Tim Conway guest stars in the premiere of a new series that promises to be "a visual-comedic assault on the people who watch it." Whether it also gets charged for battery remains to be seen.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Peter Ustinov, Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, and Charles Laughton star in the film about pagan Rome, Spartacus (1960). The second half is shown on Sunday Night Movie.
Thursday, February 6
THAT GIRL (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Family night. Mario is joined by three other Thomases: her sister Terre, brother Tony and daddy Danny.
NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9 p.m.). A French-made dramatized documentary, The Boss's Son, deals with the predictable demise of the romance between a textile magnate's son and one of his father's factory girls.
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, WORLD? (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Dean Jones hosts the premiere of a weekly satirical review that takes pokes at people, places, times, trends and morals. Mission Impossible's Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are guest stars.
Friday, February 7
THIS IS TOM JONES! (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tom Jones hosts the premiere of his own weekly variety hour, with guests Peter Sellers, Joey Heatherton, Mary Hopkin, Richie Pryor and The Moody Blues.
GENERATION GAP (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). For some reason, the producers claim to have invented a new game: people over 30 match wits with those under, as they try to determine how much they really know about each others' cultures.
NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "This is Sholom Aleichem" stars Jack Gilford as the noted Jewish writer and Nancy Walker and David Burns as several of his characters in this exploration of the life, work and personality of the writer.
Saturday, February 8 THE BOB HOPE DESERT CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The fourth round of the annual golf tournament, live from Indian Wells Country Club in Palm Springs, Calif.
Final round on Sunday, 4:30-6 p.m.
Sunday, February 9 CBS CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). The Lupinek Case, a Czechoslovak film about some missing puppets and their savior.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.).
"Stranger Than Science" shows what science fiction once predicted and how much of it came true.
MAN AND HIS UNIVERSE (ABC, 7-8 p.m.).
"The View from Space" depicts how man's view of the earth has expanded via space exploration and how science interprets what man now sees.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Royal Shakespeare Company makes the dream come true for television audiences.
FRED ASTAIRE SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A delightful hour with the man who is "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails." Repeat.
Monday, February 10
NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "The Sixth Paul" examines the Pope and his stand on birth control through the eyes of bishops, priests and laymen.
HEART ATTACK (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). This ABC News Special on the nation's heart-attack victims explores their relationships with doctors, adjustments with their families and the road to recovery.
Tuesday, February 11 N.Y.P.D. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). James Earl Jones guests in "Candy Man," Part 1, as the director of a narcotics-rehabilitation center in a residential neighborhood that becomes aroused when the patients are suspected of a series of robberies.
THEATER
On Broadway
CELEBRATION, by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the co-creators of The Fantasticks, is a charmer for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic realm of childhood. Potemkin, a master of ceremonies winningly played by Keith Charles, presides over a land of enchantment peopled by a handsome blond Orphan, a crestfallen Angel, a bored and impotent Mr. Rich and a group of Revelers. With a straight melodic line and the unpretentiously apt lyrics of the songs, the play is one of those good things that come in small packages.
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY is a Sean O'Casey play that, with its zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic ps and qs, has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. The players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rumbustious piece of theater.
HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel, Hadrian the Seventh. Playwright Peter Luke makes Rolfe the hero of his own story; he is an eccentric misfit who, after being rejected twice for the priesthood, develops the fantasy that he becomes Pope. In a stunning performance that is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style, Alec McCowen manages to evoke for Rolfe a sense of pity and affection.
PROMISES, PROMISES is a slick, amiable and derivative musical based on the film The Apartment. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, but the rhythms of Burt Bacharach's score sound rather like sporadic rifle fire.
JIMMY SHINE. Playwright Murray Schisgal has created a totally transparent character; to see him once is to know him totally. What makes Jimmy more winning than his fate is Dustin Hoffman's bravura performance as the luckless adventurer.
FORTY CARATS is precisely the sort of show that people always say they want to see in order to forget the trials and tribulations of the day. The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady, ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a lad almost half her age.
Off Broadway
TANGO, by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek, has David Margulies as a young man eager to exercise the sacred right of youth to rebel; but he finds that his totally permissive home life leaves him nothing to rebel against. Despite stilted direction and a somewhat awkward translation, the play is one of those rare and engrossing dramas that pay an evening-long courtesy call on the playgoer's mind.
LITTLE MURDERS is a revival of Cartoonist Jules Feiffer's first full-length play. Though it still seems a series of animated cartoons spliced together, Director Alan Arkin gives it a breath-catchingly funny air, a surrealistic style and an incredibly fast pace.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is something of a milestone in the current black-white confrontation. In a tribute to the late Lorraine Hansberry, put together from her own writings, the able interracial cast puts on a performance that reflects her hot anger at indignity and injustice as well as her concern for humanity.
DAMES AT SEA. Bernadette Peters, aided by an engaging cast, is naive little Ruby who comes to the Broadway "jungle," determined to "tap her way to stardom" in this friendly parody of the movie-musicals of the '30s.
CINEMA
RED BEARD. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest film makers, and in this deceptively simple story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's techniques are impeccable, and his actors--especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune--are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen.
GRAZIE ZIA is a flashy first film by young (25) Italian Film Maker Salvatore Samperi. His theme is moral and spiritual decadence and his style is already accomplished, but the film is too repetitious and vague to be entirely satisfying.
THE SHAME. Ingmar Bergman examines war and the artistic conscience in his 29th film. The visual imagery is brilliantly desolate, and the performances--by Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjoernstrand and Liv Ullman--are perfectly orchestrated.
THE FIXER is actually a 20th century Job, who becomes, to his own surprise, something of a hero. John Frankenheimer directs this adaptation of Bernard Malamud's novel with impressive force, while such actors as Alan Bates (in the title role), Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm play difficult parts with vigorous dedication.
FACES. The purgatory of modern, middle-aged marriage is depicted by Writer-Director John Cassavetes with an obsessive eye for surface realism. His film has an air of grainy honesty, but his characters are so obsessed with themselves that they leave little room for audience empathy.
THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S is a sassy valedictory valentine to oldtime burlesque. The tone of the film is predominantly affectionate, and excellent performances by Jason Robards, Norman Wisdom, Britt Ekland, Harry Andrews and Joseph Wiseman contribute to the revelry.
THE FIREMEN'S BALL. What looks at first to be a simple, funny little anecdote about a group of firemen planning a party for their retiring chief is turned by Director Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) into a pithy parody of Communist bureaucracy.
OLIVER! is a treat--and a sumptuous one --for everyone in the family. Dickens' reformist zeal has been eliminated, but a good score, handsome sets, wizardly direction (by Carol Reed) and sprightly performances are ample compensation.
BOOKS
Best Reading
OBSOLETE COMMUNISM: THE LEFT-WING ALTERNATIVE, by Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit. One of the leaders of the near-revolution that shook France during the fateful "days of May" last year joins forces with his brother to examine the student-worker revolt; the authors wind up their absorbing chronicle by blaming the revolt's last-minute failure on the Communist Party, French trade unions and the left-wing establishment.
HIS TOY, HIS DREAM, HIS REST, by John Berryman. Concluding the cycle of poems--begun in 77 Dream Songs--about a white American in early middle age, Berryman comments on life in the past eleven years and the whole range of human experience.
ALEXANDER POPE, by Peter Quennell. A considered, selective and urbane biography of the great 18th century poet, satirist and curmudgeon.
SILENCE ON MONTE SOLE, by Jack Olsen. An account of the Nazi liquidation of 1,800 people on an Italian mountainside that draws its strength from the author's careful research and unrhetorical style.
THE ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. The "smokestack barons" of the Ruhr, whose arsenal armed Germany in two world wars, are portrayed in an encyclopedic history of their most powerful and eccentric family.
MILLAIS AND THE RUSKINS, by Mary Lutyens. The odd marriage of the Victorian critic and esthete is given an enlightened going-over by a British biographer.
TURPIN, by Stephen Jones. Beneath the surface of apparently calm minds, this novel discovers roiling terror and savage comedy.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (1 last week)
2. A Small Town in Germany, le Carre (2)
3. Preserve and Protect, Drury (4)
4. Airport, Hailey (3)
5. The First Circle, Solzhenitsyn (7)
6. Force 10 from Navarone, MacLean (5)
7. The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, Donleavy
8. The Hurricane Years, Hawley (10)
9. A World of Profit, Auchincloss (9) 10. And Other Stories, O'Hara (6)
NONFICTION
1. The Money Game, "Adam Smith' (1) 2. Instant Replay, Kramer (5) 3. The Day Kennedy Was Shot, Bishop (2) 4. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (3) The Valachi Papers, Maas The Joys of Yiddish, Rosten (7) Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock (4) The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (8) 9. On Reflection, Hayes 10. The Bogey Man, Plimpton
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