Who's Got the Action? Yes, it's a Lana Turner picture, but wait--it's worth seeing. Lana plays a bookie bride, Dean Martin plays her horseplaying husband in a fairly funny formula farce directed by Daniel Mann.
The Lovers of Teruel. One of those ballet movies, but this time it's for surreal, and Ludmilla Tcherina, though she wobbles on her toes, gives the picture body.
Eclipse. The trouble with modern man, says Michelangelo Antonioni in most of his movies (L'Avventura, La Notte), is that he has gained the whole world and lost his own soul; the trouble with this picture, though it is certainly an effort of supreme style, is that Antonioni in his obsessive pessimism ignores an important fact of human life: a deep shadow can be cast only by a strong light.
David and Lisa. In his first movie, made for less than $200,000, Director Frank Perry tells a heartrending, heart-warming tale of two psychotic adolescents (Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin) who find love at the bottom of the snake pit.
Lawrence of Arabia. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, this $10 million superspectacle stars a glamorous newcomer named Peter O'Toole as the guerrilla genius of World War I; but the big attraction of the picture is the glittering golden desert of North Arabia.
Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry, portrayed without much psychological insight by Montgomery Clift.
Electra. Director Cacoyannis has derived a beautiful and sometimes moving film from the play by Euripides.
Jumbo. Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye measure comic talents in this ponderous pachyderm of a picture--a $5,000,000 screen version of the 1935 Broadway musical. Jimmy wins by a nose.
TELEVISION
Wednesday, January 23
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*David Wolper's history of Hollywood, Part II. The age of sound.
CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Former President Eisenhower talks about U.S. progress during the past two years.
Thursday, January 24
The World of Benny Goodman (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A TV biography, with ancillary half-notes on B.G. by Aaron Copland, Peggy Lee, Gene Krupa, et al.
Friday, January 25
The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). This one has bits of everything, from Zsa Zsa to My Fair Lady in German.
Saturday, January 26
Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Children's program including a discussion of the concept of infinity, a version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates illustrated with postage stamps, etc.
The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Deadline U.S.A., with Bogey.
The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight's case involves a seance on Fire Island.
Sunday, January 27
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A mime, Salvatore Guida, plays several parts in telling the story of St. Francis of Assisi.
Camera Three (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Composer David Amram compares his new work, Dirge with Variations, with a movement from Brahms.
NBC Opera Company (NBC, 2-3:40 p.m.). Giorgio Tozzi, Phyllis Curtin, Frank Porretta and Richard Torigi in Italo Montemezzi's The Love of Three Kings. Repeat.
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The business boom in Milan.
Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). On the Beach, with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins.
Monday, January 28
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Brinkley has been granted an extra half-hour in order to tour Malta and four pocket nations: Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein and Monaco.
THEATER
On Broadway
Marcel Marceau is an exciting architect of empty space, an eloquent poet of silence. This matchless mime shares with the early Charlie Chaplin the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt is.
Little Me has the spit-and-polish shine of painstaking professionalism. The most prodigious comic labors of the evening are performed by Sid Caesar as the septempartite suitor of Belle Poitrine, the All-America showgirl.
Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified cliches, and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery.
Tchin-Tchin owes more to Actors Anthony Quinn and Margaret Leighton than its script can quite repay. Trying to pick up the pieces of mutually shattered marriages, this sad-amusing, absurdly incongruous pair find that the fragments are not worth keeping.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, detonates a shattering three-act marital explosion that, for savage wit and skill, is unparalleled in the recent annals of the U.S. stage.
Off Broadway
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, offers playgoers a valuable, if somewhat blurry, look at the handiwork of the U.S. master playwright. George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst do their impressive best by O'Neill, who is mostly at his secondbest.
The Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter, are two one-acters that confirm the startling gifts of Britain's Pinter as a playwriting terrorist who can conjure up menace with the easy authority of a Hitchcock, and pose Pirandellphic conundrums about the nature of truth and reality.
A Man's a Man, by Bertolt Brecht. First produced in 1926, and excitingly performed in this Eric Bentley production, Man uncannily foreshadows the process of brainwashing, the loss of identity, and the kind of society where every man wears a mask to hide the face he hasn't got.
BOOKS
Best Reading
March to Calumny, by Albert Biderman. In this detailed study of how captured G.I.s in Korea behaved, Historian Biderman corrects a widespread notion that they were cowardly and easily brainwashed.
Diary of an Early American Boy, by Eric Sloane. An account of the day-to-day life of a 15-year-old (circa 1800) who spent his time brewing butternut ink and learning how to build a house without nails, with the author demonstrating just how everything was done.
The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem, by Myrick Land. Carlyle was not feuding with Emerson when he called him "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon," but most of the other literary figures in this book are--and their pejorative language is choice.
A Girl in Winter, by Philip Larkin. Layers of loneliness are peeled off lonely people with dexterity in this novel by one of England's finest poets.
The Sand Pebbles, by Richard McKenna. Writing his first novel at 49, an ex-Navy enlisted man tells how a ship's crew degenerates behind a fac,ade of spit and polish, then finds itself again.
Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. A brilliant guide to the nightmarish parables of a writer who saw individual man as a helpless insect lost in the mass world he has helped create.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (2, last week)
2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1)
3. A Shade of Difference, Drury (3)
4. The Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara (6)
5. Genius, Dennis (4)
6. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna
7. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (10)
8. Where Love Has Gone, Robbins (5)
9. $100 Misunderstanding, Gover (7)
10. Ship of Fools, Porter (9)
NONFICTION
1. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (1)
2. Silent Spring, Carson (2)
3. Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Schulz (5)
4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (3)
5. The Points of My Compass, White (6)
6. Final Verdict, St. Johns (9)
7. Letters from the Earth, Twain (8)
8. My Life in Court, Nizer (4)
9. Renoir, My Father, Renoir
10. The Rothschilds, Morton (7)
* All times E.S.T.
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