The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Pas pour les enfants: a story, updated by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of love on the AC-DC circuit.
Money, Money, Money. Jean Gabin and a gang of French comedians manufacture $2,000,000 worth of guldens--and that ain't mustard.
The Best of Enemies. War is heck in this comedy of military errors set in Ethiopia and starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi.
War Hunt. War is madness in this tragedy of military stalemate set in Korea and starring John Saxon.
A Matter of WHO. The World Health Organization and Comedian Terry-Thomas collaborate on a WHOdunit about viruses and villains.
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. The young man is Hemingway, as represented in the Nick Adams stories, which are here assembled in a charming, rambling, romantically melancholy tale of a boy attempting to get away from mother and become a man.
Strangers in the City. A sociological shocker that describes life in Spanish Harlem.
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. An Italian anthology of amore: three episodes directed by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.
The Concrete Jungle. A saxophony blues mocks and mourns the rise and fall of the criminal hero in this jagged, jazzy British crime thriller.
The Notorious Landlady. A silly summer shocker with Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon.
Lolita. Read the book instead.
TELEVISION
Wed., Sept. 5 Howard K. Smith: News & Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Guest: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Focus on America (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.).
Out in the Missouri Ozarks, a real vigorous sport is floatin': people get on what they call "John" boats and just float. This show is a three-day float on the Current River, where the Federal Government wants to create a national park.
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Peter Falk and Neville Brand guest-star in Lament for a Dead Indian. Repeat.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Cuban refugees in Miami.
Repeat.
Thurs., Sept. 6 Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A reminiscent visit to Pearl Harbor.
Fri., Sept. 7
The Good Ship Hope (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Documentary about the hospital ship.
Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Top new's story of the week.
Sat., Sept. 8 National Singles Tennis Championships
(NBC, 2-4:30 p.m.). Semifinals, from West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y.
World Series of Golf (NBC, 4:30-6 p.m.). From Firestone Country Club, Akron.
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A stock-car race from South Carolina and the All American Quarter Horse Futurity from New Mexico.
Miss America Pageant (CBS, 9:30-12 midnight). The annual tense decision: it's flesh, but is it talent?
Sun., Sept. 9
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). First of two programs on mentally retarded children.
Washington Conversation (CBS, 12:30-12:55 p.m.). Guest: Walter W. Heller, chairman of President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers.
Inside Politics (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). First of nine programs supplying background to the key November elections.
National Singles Tennis Championships (NBC, 2-4:30 p.m.). Finals.
World Series of Golf (NBC, 4:30-6 p.m.). Continued.
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Guest: Paul Nitze, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck, interviewed at his house in Weston, Conn.
Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Second part of a re-enactment of the Brink's job, titled The World's Greatest Robbery. Repeat.
Mon., Sept. 10
Germany: Fathers and Sons (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A study of the conflict in modern Germany between the older people who lived under Hitler and the younger ones who did not.
THEATER
While waiting for the fall Broadway harvest to prove its tang, liquidity and color, there are a few mouth watering vintages still about:
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.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. In this rich historic tapestry (1791-1962) the author has woven with equal skill the look of the great river itself and the lives of the great figures--rapacious explorers, splendid Mamelukes, the invading Emperor Napoleon--who struggled along its shores.
Big Mac, by Erih Kos. A whale of a social satire by a gifted Yugoslav 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, frightening and highly popular 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 dead-ringer dialogue and his sharp-eyed characterization of unhappy and basically unattractive people.
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 saintly lifetime.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week)
2. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3)
3. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2)
4. The Reivers, Faulkner (5)
5. Uhuru, Ruark (6)
6. The Prize, Wallace (4)
7. Another Country, Baldwin (7)
8. Letting Go, Roth (9)
9. Portrait in Brownstone, Auchincloss (8)
10. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone
NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1)
2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2)
3. The Guns of August, Tuchman (10)
4. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (8)
5. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (3)
6. One Man's Freedom, Williams (6)
7. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (9)
8. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck
9. Men and Decisions, Strauss (5)
10. Yeeck--as in Wreck, Veeck (4)
* All times E.D.T.
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