Wednesday, June 1 1 YOU'RE IN LOVE, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.)* Suffering from unrequited love of the Little Red-Haired Girl, poor Charlie gets help only from Linus in this Peanuts cartoon special. Repeat.
THE OUTSIDER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A literate, humorous series starring Darren McGavin as a seedy and realistic private eye, The Outsider will not be continued after this summer's reruns. Betty Field and Marie Windsor guest-star in "One Long-Stemmed American Beauty." Repeat.
Thursday, June 12 THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). A band of starving Cheyennes man ages to escape from a reservation only to run into the U.S. Army in John Ford's beautiful Cheyenne Autumn (1964), with James Stewart, Dolores Del Rio, Richard Widmark, Arthur Kennedy and Carroll Baker.
Saturday, June 14 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6 p.m.).
Some mileage of the Le Mans 24-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance, live from France via satellite.
U.S. OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Third round of one of the year's major tournaments, from the Champions Golf Club in Houston. Fourth and final round Sunday, 5-7 p.m.
Sunday, June 15 MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.).
Special hour-long edition from Pittsburgh, where the U.S. Conference of Mayors is being held.
DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The World of Shalom of Safed, an award-winning film on the Israeli primitive painter (real name: Shalom Moskowitz). Repeat.
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.).
Appalachian music may not be big in the marketplace, but old and young devotees keep it alive, witness the second annual "Folk Festival of the Smokies" from Gatlinburg, Tenn.
HEE HAW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Buck Owens and His Buckaroos and Roy Clark will sing and pick and fiddle over the summer months, backed up by other country-and-Western performers like Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, Sonny James and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Monday, June 16 CAROL BURNETT PRESENTS THE JIMMIE RODGERS SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Another down-home singing star, Rodgers will have among the show's regulars Lyle Wagnoner, Vicki Lawrence and the Burgundy Street Singers. The opening-night guests will be Wayne Newton and Dana Valery.
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Tuesday, June 17 NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). This documentary looks into the life and work of Author Henry Miller, tracing him through his expatriate days in Paris and calling on him (along with Authors Lawrence Durrell and Anais Nin) at his present home in Los Angeles.
THEATER
On Broadway
HAMLET. Every Hamlet bleeds in the last scene; Nicol Williamson pours his blood into every scene. Williamson's 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 makes all previous Hamlets fade.
THE FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan and Bert Convy, backed by an adroit cast, star in a revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles Mac-Arthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s. When the time comes to put the paper to bed and bring down the final curtain, the audience may well feel sorry that it has to go home.
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 of wish fulfillment 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.
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 with anger at injustice, it is something of a milestone in the current white-black confrontation.
CINEMA
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Love is literally blind in this corrosive black comedy about a wealthy Englishman (Nicol Williamson) who becomes helplessly enamored of a lascivious movie usherette (Anna Karina). Williamson makes a strong performance out of a weak man. The script--from Vladimir Nabokov's novel--is literate and intelligent, and Tony Richardson's direction is his best since The Entertainer.
PEOPLE MEET AND SWEET MUSIC FILLS THE HEART. Moviegoers weary of the sobersided sex of I Am Curious (Yellow) will find some light and welcome relief in this bizarre Danish satire.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Melancholy and an aching sense of loneliness pervade the 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.
THE LOVES OF ISADORA. Dancer Isadora Duncan had quite a life, but there is little of it left in this biography, which has been severely truncated by the film's distributors. Vanessa Redgrave lends the film its only distinction with a graceful, majestic performance that is worth the price of admission.
THE ROUND UP and THE RED AND THE WHITE are two bitter, handsome films by Hungary's Miklos Jancso that share a loathing for war and a barely controlled hatred for its perpetrators.
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 is a pleasant enough vehicle for the Newmans.
THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY looks at first glance like a routine kidnaping thriller, but Writer-Director Hubert Cornfield uses the crime only as a premise on which to build a stylish seminar on the poetics of violence. In a small but superb cast, Marlon Brando plays a hipster hood and gives his best performance in more than a decade.
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER. These two children's films are distinguished by their lack of coyness and a single-minded refusal to condescend to their audience. Mountain concerns a Canadian lad who runs off to the woods, and Ring tells the sprightly 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 Holm all seem perfect for their roles.
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.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Children's Picture Books GIGIN AND TILL, by Beatrix Scharen (Atheneum; $4.95). A lonely little boy takes a trip through dreamland with his stuffed doll and discovers that all his old toys have come to life.
BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD, by Louise Fitzhugh and Sandra Scoppettone, illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh (Harper & Row; $3.95). Four scruffy kids playing "army" on a hill learn more about war than they bargained for when the rules change and fighting becomes real. A cheerful book despite its moral.
DOMINIQUE AND THE DRAGON, by Jurgen Tamchina, illustrated by Heidrun Petrides (Harcourt, Brace & World; $4.25). A picture book with more than the usual amount of text, this one tells of a very fierce dragon who frightens a small town until lovingly subdued by a little girl. The story is well written with delightful Bruegelean illustrations.
HOW, HIPPO!, by Marcia Brown (Scribner's; $3.50). Twice winner of the Caldecott Prize, Marcia Brown has produced another remarkable picture book. Handsome, four-color woodcuts and a rich though slender text make the world of a kindergarten-aged hippo absorbing and most attractive.
THE CAT AT NIGHT, by Dahlov Ipcar (Doubleday; $3.95). What does a cat do at night? Ipcar's bold drawings alternate from cool black and blue to hot daylight colors, as his cat tours the farm letting the child see what is visible only to the "cat at night."
LONG, BROAD & QUICKEYE, by Evaline Ness (Scribner's; $3.95). A charming Bohemian fairy tale with the usual maiden held captive by the wicked wizard before being saved by a captivating young prince. This one has three unusual characters named Long, Broad and Quickeye, who help with the rescue.
WORKING WITH WATER, by E. A. Catherall and P. N. Holt (Albert Whitman; $2.75). One of a series of science-experiments books (magnets, light, sounds) simple enough for the very young child. Most of the materials needed can be found in the home.
THE PRACTICAL PRINCESS, by Jay Williams, illustrated by Friso Henstra (Parents' Magazine Press; $3.95). A princess named Bedelia manages to slay a dragon by using a little common sense--and a lot of gunpowder. She also escapes from a prison tower and marries a handsome prince, all because she is practical. A humorous twist on the standard fairy tale with slightly baroque illustrations.
THY FRIEND, OBADIAH, by Brinton Turkic (Viking; $3.95). A sequel to Obadiah the Bold, the book shows the friendship between a sea gull and a young Quaker boy on the island of Nantucket. Splendid watercolor and pencil illustrations.
JOHN AND THE RAREY, by Rosemary Wells (Funk & Wagnalls; $3.50). What does a boy do when his parents won't let him have a real pet? He goes looking for a clean, neat animal--and finds a "Rarey." Equally lively is Rosemary Wells' Hungry Fred, with text by Paula Fox (Bradbury Press; $3.95). A mod book with considerable style and wit.
THE ENCHANTED DRUM, by Maria Aebersold, illustrated by Walter Grieder (Parents' Magazine Press; $4.50). A small boy with a magic drum finds fantastic adventure at a Swiss carnival. The background and pictures of the children in zany costumes and grotesque masks are sometimes dazzling, sometimes dizzying.
LOOK AT THE MOON, by May Garelick, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard (Young Scott; $3.95). The moon that "casts its light for all to see" is shown in a variety of scenes painted in blue and white. A pictorial mood book with a rhyming text, both well done.
AND SO MY GARDEN GROWS, by Peter Spier (Doubleday; $3.95). A collection of nursery rhymes and riddles record the not so imaginary Italian journey of two children. Spier did the illustrations on location mainly in and around Florence. His delicate pen-and-ink scenes overlayed with soft colors show off with rare beau ty everything from the drab yard of a Florentine suburb to a towering 14th century villa.
THE GREAT BIG ENORMOUS TURNIP, by Alexei Tolstoy, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Watts; $3.95). "The mouse pulled the cat, the cat pulled the dog," etc., until mouse, cat, dog, granddaughter, old man and old woman get the enormous turnip out of the ground.
Best Sellers FICTION 1. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (1 last week)
2. The Love Machine, Susann (3)
3. The Godfather, Puzo (2)
4. Ada, Nabokov (5)
5. Except for Me and Thee, West (6)
6. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (8)
7. Airport, Hailey (9)
8. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (4)
9. Bullet Park, Cheever (7)
10. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home, Kemelman (10)
NONFICTION
1. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (1)
2. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (5)
3. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (8)
4. Jennie, Martin (2)
5. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (3)
6. The 900 Days, Salisbury (4)
7. Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me, Gish and Pinchot
8. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (7)
9. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (9)
10. The Valachi Papers, Maas (10)
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