Wednesday, June 4
TARZAN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* NBC's 1966-68 ape-man series, starring Ron Ely, turns up as a summer replacement series on the Big Eye Network.
KRAFT MUSIC HALL FROM LONDON (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Tony Sandler and Ralph Young make music with help from Special Guests Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Wisdom.
Thursday, June 5
NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).** Alan Bates stars as Richard Wagner in The Siegfried Idyll, an account of Wagner's love affair with the wife of his best friend, Conductor Hans von Buelow.
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Abortion" examines this controversial issue.
Saturday, June 7
THE BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-6 p.m.).
The third leg of racing's Triple Crown.
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Indianapolis 500 Automobile Race, plus a preview of the U.S. Open golf championship.
THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Country Music Man gets off to a larruping start with Bob Dylan, Fannie Flagg, Joni Mitchell and Doug Kershaw. Premiere.
Sunday, June 8
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.).
Senator Everett Dirksen (R. Ill.) will be fending off the reporters.
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.).
Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Sarah Vaughan and Count Basic add their talents to the New Orleans Jazz Festival.
THE 215T ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). The producers promise to cut down the teen-age chatter. Merv Griffin hosts in the East, Bill Cosby in the West.
Tuesday, June 10
NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Yves Montand and the Dirk Sanders Ballet in an hour of song and dance. Repeat.
60 MINUTES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace go to Africa to report both sides of the Biafran war.
THEATER
On Broadway
HAMLET. Every Hamlet sheds his blood in the last scene; Nicol Williamson pours his blood into every scene. Williamson's fiery Dane would have led a sit-in at the University of Wittenberg, or burned it to the ground. The rottenness of the state, the corruption of his elders, the brevity of his mother's love, Ophelia's frail readiness to be her father's pawn--all these nauseate him. Yet his antic disposition never leaves him, and a Hamlet has never been presented with so much caustic wit. With this performance, Nicol Williamson has turned a page in the book of acting.
THE FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan plays Walter Burns, the tough managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, and Bert Convy plays Hildy Johnson, his top reporter, in this revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the 1920s. The play has a cornball period flavor that adds relish to a high-spirited evening.
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is Woody Allen's comedy, in which he stars as a woefully unconfident young man coached in the art of winning women by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart. Though the play sometimes resembles an extended nightclub routine, it proves an amusing evening.
FORTY CARATS. Julie Harris stars in this frothy French farce that enters a plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage.
HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel, Hadrian the Seventh, a minor masterpiece about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who is elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance as the fictional Pope is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style.
Off Broadway
NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY. Charles Gordone's story of black-white and black-black relations is flawed by melodrama, yet the play ticks with menace and is unexpectedly and explosively funny.
THE MISER. The Lincoln Center Repertory Company has staged a lively revival of Moliere's comedy. Robert Symonds brings Harpagon, the miserable mock hero of the play, to robust life.
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Satirist Elaine May directs her own play, Adaptation, and Terrence McNally's Next for an evening of richly humorous one-acters.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a series of readings from the works of the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, in which whites as well as blacks speak for her. Suffused not only with anger at injustice but also with a glowing concern for humanity, it is a milestone in the current white-black confrontation.
DAMES AT SEA is a delightful parody of the movie musicals of the 1930s, complete with all the frenetic tap routines and naive Ruby, who comes to the Broadway jungle to dance her way to stardom.
CINEMA
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Melancholy and an aching sense of loneliness pervade this screen version of James Leo Herlihy's novel about the unlikely friendship of two loners in New York. The acting by Dustin Hoffman and Newcomer Jon Voight is excellent, even though John Schlesinger's direction sometimes becomes too slick.
PEOPLE MEET AND SWEET MUSIC FILLS THE HEART is a freewheeling satire on romantic melodramas and graphic sex movies. It comes as a pleasant relief in these Curious (Yellow) times.
THE ROUND UP and THE RED AND THE WHITE are handsomely pictorial films by Hungary's Miklos Jancso. Both dwell on the bitterness of war and demonstrate a loathing for its perpetrators.
THE LOVES OF ISADORA is a biography of Dancer Isadora Duncan that has been severely truncated by the distributors. Still, Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora conveys a radiant grace and joie that the rest of the cast sadly lacks.
WINNING. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward appear as a husband and wife whose marital trials are enacted against the roar of the auto-racing circuit. The film gives a pretty bumpy ride overall, but it's a pleasant enough vehicle for the Newmans.
THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. A routine kidnaping yarn is only the premise for this chilling seminar in the poetics of surrealistic violence conducted by Writer-Director Hubert Cornfield. Outstanding in a small but superb cast is Marlon Brando, who plays a hipster-hood and gives his best performance in a decade.
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER are two children's films that parents should appreciate as well. Mountain is the story of a Canadian lad who runs off to the woods, and Ring is the real-life tale of a London accountant and his pet otter.
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. A newcomer named Ali MacGraw and her costar, Richard Benjamin, shine in this otherwise lackluster adaptation of Philip Roth's novella of being young, in love and Jewish in suburbia.
THE FIXER is a Jewish handyman in turn-of-the-century Russia who learns courage through suffering and honor through defeat. John Frankenheimer's direction is precise and controlled, and the distinguished cast--notably Alan Bates (in the title role), Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holme--is impeccable.
STOLEN KISSES. Another chapter in the cinematic autobiography of Francois Truffaut, this perfect little film chronicles the adventures of the hero of The 400 Blows during the last months of his adolescence.
SALESMAN. The Maysles brothers, with camera and sound equipment in hand, spent a full six weeks tracking a group of
New England Bible salesmen on their rather weary rounds. The result is a searing but not wholly unsympathetic portrait of what the Maysles call "one part of the American dream."
BOOKS
Best Reading
ADA, by Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half-sister and a halfbrother, by the finest living writer of English fiction.
THE LONDON NOVELS OF COLIN MacINNES (CITY OF SPADES, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, MR. LOVE AND JUSTICE). Icy observations and poetic perceptions of the back alleys and subcultures in that pungent city on the Thames.
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another schlemiel, but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent.
THE GUNFIGHTER, by Joseph G. Rosa. A balanced, wide-screen view of the often unbalanced men who infested the Wild West.
THE UNPERFECT SOCIETY, by Milovan Djilas. The author, who has spent years in Yugoslav prisons for deriding the regime, now argues that Communism is disintegrating there and elsewhere as a new class of specialists presses for a more flexible society.
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men--one mild and monogamous, the other tormented and libertine--over the fate of a boy.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the catastrophic Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, funny and rueful fable tries to say something about human cruelty and indifference.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY, by Carlos Baker. The long-awaited official biography offers the first cohesive account of a gifted, troubled, flamboyant figure who has too often been recollected in fragmentary and partisan memoirs.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (1 last week)
2. The Godfather, Puzo (2)
3. The Love Machine, Susann (5)
4. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (3)
5. Ada, Nabokov (4)
6. Except for Me and Thee, West (8)
7. Bullet Park, Cheever
8. The Salzburg Connection, MacInnes (6)
9. Airport, Hailey (9)
10. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home, Kemelman (7)
NONFICTION
1. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (1)
2. Jennie, Martin (2)
3. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (9)
4. The 900 Days, Salisbury (3)
5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (5.)
6. The Age of Discontinuity, Drucker (10)
7. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (7)
8. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (6)
9. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (4) 10. The Valachi Papers, Maas
* All times E.D.T. ** Check local listing, since NET stations can vary programming times.
This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.