The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Pas pour les enfants: a story, adapted by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of love on the AC-DC circuit.
Money, Money, Money. Jean Gabin and a clutch of French comedians demonstrate that money is funny when it is funny money.
The Best of Enemies. War is heck in this comedy of military errors starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi.
War Hunt. The story of a struggle, played out in Korea, between two U.S. soldiers: for one of them killing is wrong, for the other it is rite.
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. The young man is Hemingway, as represented in the Nick Adams stories, which are here assembled in t charming, rambling, romantically melancholy tale of a boy attempting to get away from mother and become a man.
Strangers in the City. Life in Spanish Harlem is explicitly examined in this intelligent social shocker, written and directed by Rick Carrier.
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as Robert F. Stroud, a murderer who became an ornithologist while in solitary confinement for 43 years.
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about men who seek the brotherhood of man in the motherhood of nature. Both are well done.
Boccaccio '70. Eros in Italy, interpreted by three top Italian directors (Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti) and three top-heavy international stars (Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider).
The Concrete Jungle. A saxophoney blues mocks and mourns the rise and fall of the criminal hero in this jagged, jazzy British crime thriller.
The Notorious Landlady. Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon commit murder and mirth in a horribly funny rooming house. The Lemmon twist saves the day.
Lolita. Any resemblance between this film and the novel is accidental and inconsequential. The partners in this esthetic crime include Author-Scripter Nabokov, Director Stanley Kubrick and Co-Leads James Mason and Sue Lyon. Peter Sellers saves some scenes, and might have saved the movie if only he had been cast as Humbert.
A Matter of WHO. Britain's Terry-Thomas plays a dewlapped bloodhound from the World Health Organization who goes bugling after a migratory virus and turns up the trail of a swindler.
TELEVISION
Wed., Aug. 29 Howard K. Smith: News and Comment
(ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.)* A critical look at the U.S. architectural landscape: "Is America Ugly?"
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Jazz," a visit to New Orleans.
Repeat.
Thurs., Aug. 30 The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.).
An offbeat musical show. Guests include Peggy Lee and Oscar Peterson.
Arias and Arabesques (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A double-threat special featuring Composer Douglas (The Ballad of Baby Doe) Moore's opera Gallantry--starring Martha Wright, Laurel Hurley, Charles Anthony and Ronald Holgate--and a ballet, Parallels, based on a composition by Wallingford Riegger and choreographed by John Butler. Jan Peerce is the master of ceremonies.
Sun., Sept. 2
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany celebrates Labor Day week end with a discussion of the Kennedy Administration's labor record.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A biography of the late General George Catlett Marshall. Repeat.
The Campaign and the Candidates (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The first of a series of eight programs on U.S. politics, this one examines the role of the national party chairmen, including Huntley-Brinkley interviews with Democrat John M. Bailey and Republican William E.
Miller.
Mon., Sept. 3 Sentry Abroad (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An evaluation of present U.S. military strength overseas.
THEATER
Before fall brings to Broadway the fresh offerings of a new season, the tried and true veterans sing their September Song, hoping by virtue, popularity or sheer ambiance to win a place in the new theatrical year. Top dramatic playbilling goes to The Night of the Iguana and A Man for All Seasons. Iguana is Tennessee Williams' gentlest play since The Glass Menagerie, and the wisest play he has ever written. Seasons is a play of wit and probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More, with Emlyn Williams less effective than Paul Scofield was in the role. A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title, and Jason Robards Jr. rings merry changes on the slightly tired subject of nonconformity. In its second season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary remains a wisecrackling play, and Barbara Bel Geddes is still in it.
A clutch of musicals caters to the best and worst of tastes. The astringent wit of Abe Burrows fuses How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the impish energies of Robert Morse provide the explosive for an evening of delight. Multi-aptituded Zero Mostel brings his masterly clowning to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an uproarious burlesquerie, lewdly adapted from some plays of Plautus. Also still in season: Camelot, Carnival and (closing Sept. 1) the venerable My Fair Lady.
Off-Broadway, Brecht on Brecht is the intellectual class of the field, an ingeniously sifted but episodic sampling of the poems, aphorisms and dramatic excerpts of a master of 20th century theater. Mixing surrealism and college humor, young (25) Arthur Kopit has mounted a zany attack on Mom behind the jawbreaking title, null Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad.
Having recently reached its 500th performance, Jean Genet's audacious, exotic and unsentimental dramatization of the color question, The Blacks, still has zest and impact.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Big Mac, by Erih Kos. A whale of a social satire by a gifted Yugoslavian who pokes superb fun at conformity--in a Peoples' Republic and everywhere else.
The Scandalous Mr. Bennett, by Richard O'Connor. A diverting chronicle of fabled New York Herald Owner James Gordon Bennett Jr., whose eccentric doings were calculated to raise both his paper's circulation and his own blood pressure, and did.
Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. Graceful and soldierly recollections from that military rarity, a general who can write of battles as well as he fights them.
The Inheritors, by William Golding. A grimly provocative imagination makes this story of a doomed prehuman Neanderthal tribe a fitting successor to the author's earlier and frightening Lord of the Flies.
Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal. Tart darts at some hidebound U.S. foibles by a young and politically active writer of many parts.
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. This overlong but nonetheless impressive novel about young U.S. college faculty members shows off the author's remarkable ear for dialogue and his sharp-eyed characterization of unhappy people.
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swin-nerton. In this excellent novel by an author who has never had the recognition he deserves, an eminent man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rivals and decides that the man was not so much his enemy as his friend.
The Reivers, by William Faulkner. A funny, gentle and entirely delightful last work set in Faulkner country.
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis.
The sweat, as well as the spiritual anguish, of a famous saintly lifetime.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week)
2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2)
3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (5)
4. The Prize, Wallace (6)
5. The Reivers,Faulkner (3)
6. Uhuru, Ruark (4)
7. Another Country, Baldwin (7)
8.Portrait in Brownstone, Auchincloss (10)
9. Letting Go, Roth (9)
10. The Golden Rendezvous, MacLean
NONFICTION
1.The Rothschilds, Morton (1)
2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2)
3. O Ye Jigs& Juleps!, Hudson (5)
4. Veeck--as in Wreck, Veeck (9)
5. Men and Decisions, Strauss (4)
6. One Man's Freedom, Williams (3)
7. JFK Coloring Book, Kannon and Roman
8. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (7)
9. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner
10. The Guns of August, Tuchman (6)
* All times E.D.T.
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