The Sky Above -- The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to mock-birth rituals.
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic movie triptych brilliantly but unevenly fashioned by Directors Fellini, Visconti and De Sica. Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider are the sex goddesses involved.
The Notorious Landlady gives Jack Lemmon the chance to show what a fine funnyman he is in a playful mystery-comedy set in London. Kim Novak is delectably Kim Novak, and it would be churlish to ask for anything more.
Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigre (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief.
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its breath-catching, balloonist's-eye view of the fair land of France.
Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet, under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma.
A Taste of Honey is pressed from the bitterly squalid urban honeycombs of the English poor. Not a drop of meaning has been spilled in transferring the play by Britain's angry young woman, Shelagh Delaney, from stage to screen.
TELEVISION
Wed., July 11
Howard K. Smith: News & Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Summary and analysis of the week's important news stories.
Focus on America (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The first in a series of ten award-winning documentaries, "Old Hand and the Weevil" tells the story of the drilling of an oil well.
Thurs., July 12
Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A look, from both sides of the footlights, at The American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., with Lawrence Langner as guest and Richard Basehart in a soliloquy from Richard II.
Fri., July 13
The World of Billy Graham (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A repeat of last year's portrait of the evangelist.
Sat., July 14
Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). With Dave Garroway as anchor man, Arlene Francis as hostess, and someone pretty as winner.
Sun., July 15
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). "New Churches for Today," the first of a two-part series on the influence of modern architecture on U.S. church design. Cranston Jones, a TIME senior editor, is host.
Washington Conversation (CBS, 12:30-12:55 p.m.). Guest: Walter W. Heller, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Ribicoff is guest speaker, one day after he is expected to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A repeat of "New York in the Twenties," with Publisher Alfred Knopf, Playwright Marc Connelly and Editor Stanley Walker as guests.
Mon., July 16
The Peace Corps in Tanganyika (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A repeat of last season's look at the progress of one Peace Corps operation from its training in Texas to its camp at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. Color.
THEATER
Straw Hat
Boothbay Harbor, Me., Boothbay Playhouse: Paddle Your Own Canoe, a French comedy, makes its American debut.
Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: World premiere and pre-Broadway run of There Must Be a Pony, by Jim Kirkwood Jr., starring Myrna Loy as a sort of West Coast Auntie Mame.
Matunuck, R.I., Theater by-the-Sea: The Rhode Island edition of Greenwich Village's long-run (900 performances) hit musical, The Fantasticks.
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1, plus an evening of Shakespeare Revisited (selected readings by Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans).
Westport, Conn., Nash's Barn: A new revue based on the works of the late James Thurber, The Beast in Me, with music by Don Elliot and lyrics by James Costigan, and starring Frank McHugh.
Yonkers, N.Y., Westchester Dinner Theater: Dan Dailey in Guys and Dolls.
Mineola, N.Y., Playhouse: Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover, with Walter Pidgeon and Martha Scott.
New York City, New York Shakespeare Festival: George C. Scott's memorable Shylock, followed by The Tempest, in Central Park.
New Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: Burgess Meredith directs A Ton of Bricks, a Navy comedy by Max Wilk and W. J. Gordon.
Philadelphia, Playhouse in the Park: The world premiere of Winterkill, a drama by Arthur T. Hadley, based on a cold war incident in Berlin, starring Richard Carlson and Larry Gates.
Washington, D.C., Washington Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It.
Gaithersburg, Md., Shady Grove Music Fair: Fiorello!, with Tom Bosley, who created the role on Broadway.
Ohio River, Ky., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: The showboat will tie up at Louisville for a variety show, then paddle downstream to West Point, Ky., and Brandenburs, Ky., with Rip Van Winkle.
Evergreen Park, Ill., Drury Lane: Joan Bennett as the Britisher-mama in The Reluctant Debutante.
Ashland, Ore., Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Comedy of Errors, Henry IV, Part 2, As You Like It and Coriolanus, in rotation.
Monterey, Calif., Wharf Theater: June Havoc in The Threepenny Opera.
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew, plus The Gondoliers.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. Characters are subtly and astringently drawn in this look at university life, but the book is overlong and suffers from a world-weary young hero.
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swin-nerton. The surviving member of a pair of old literary feudists is led, by his antagonist's death, to some uncomfortable conclusions about his own life. One of the best novels of an older English writer whose work is too little appreciated.
The Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland.
The Reivers, by William Faulkner. Like an old man yarning on the back stoop, a Nobel prizewinner indulges himself and the reader in a fond and very funny story.
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In a superb retelling, the great saint's life reveals physical anguish endured with spiritual strength.
An Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. A spritely, philosophically provocative excursion into upper-class English affairs of the heart.
The Wax Boom, by George Mandel. In the darkness of modern combat, a symbolic company of infantrymen meet death by candlelight.
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. A look at Civil War writing becomes that rarity--a fresh and unsentimental centennial tribute.
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. A monument to mortal folly, ashore and afloat.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week)
2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2)
3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (5)
4. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (3)
5. Uhuru, Ruark
6. Devil Water, Seton (7)
7. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (4)
8. The Big Laugh, O'Hara (10)
9. The Reivers, Faulkner
10. The Prize, Wallace
NONFICTION
1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1)
2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2)
3. Calories Don't Count, Taller (3)
4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (4)
5. In the Clearing, Frost (5)
6. The Making of the President 1960, White (7)
7. Six Crises, Nixon (6)
8. One Man's Freedom, Williams
9. Conversations with Stalin, Djilas (8)
10. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson
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