Wednesday, August 28
The Eleventh Hour (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).--A psychiatric investigation is necessary to determine whether a famous torch singer (Julie London) committed suicide or was murdered. Repeat.
Thursday, August 29
The Story of Will Rogers (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Bob Hope narrates Will Rogers' long career. Repeat.
Friday, August 30
Route 66 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Line, a veteran of the South Viet Nam fighting, finds the lieutenant he hero-worshiped left with the mind of an eight-year-old as the result of a shrapnel wound. Repeat.
Saturday, August 31
ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National A.A.U. Senior Women's Swimming and Diving Championships from High Point, N.C.
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.)* Fraeulein, starring Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer. Color.
Sunday, September 1
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is Dr. Edward Teller, noted nuclear physicist and a chief architect of the H-bomb.
Crucial Summer: The 1963 Civil Rights Crises (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Fourth in the series of five reports on the current integration struggle.
The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Guests: Sophie Tucker, Brenda Lee, Jackie Mason and Robert Goulet.
Monday, September 2
The American Revolution of '63 (NBC, 7:30-10:30 p.m.). A three-hour examination of the history of the civil rights movement from the Emancipation Proclamation to the current demonstrations.
Ben Casey (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). In Part 2 of the drama for which both Kim Stanley and Glenda Farrell won Emmies. Miss Stanley portrays an attorney-patient who doesn't want to give up morphine injections.
Tuesday, September 3
Focus on America (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Study of the New York City Police Department's Missing Persons Unit.
CINEMA
The Leopard. Italian Film Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has made a remarkable film--scenically beautiful, dramatically satisfying, philosophically profound--about the fortunes of a fading princely household in 19th century Sicily. Burt Lancaster. Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon star in this splendid cinematic set piece.
Lord of the Flies. William Golding's widely read novel of human frailty and the force of sin in society has been translated into an adventure story about castaway boys on a desert island that is often shocking but never frightening. Golding's harrowing allegory has been lost, and all that is left is an ineptly acted movie that will anger the book's partisans, perplex the uninitiated.
The Small World of Sammy Lee. Anthony Newley, of Stop the World--/ Want to Get Off, has gotten off at a Soho bump-and-grindery where he is the frantically busy master of ceremonies with several illicit deals on the side. As the fast-running Sammy, Newley is wickedly sly, inwardly terrified, foolishly hopeful in this sordid and often biting slice-of-life film.
The Thrill of It All. Doris Day has done with defending her virtue against the assaults of assorted seducers, has settled down with James Garner, two kids, and a contract to make TV commercials for a soap company. The results are sudsy but far from squeaky-clean.
Toys in the Attic. Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller and Dean Martin try to breathe life into Lillian Hellman's play, but the story about Dixie spinsters who indulge in a bit of brother-smothering is about as believable as Southern-fried matzo balls.
The Great Escape. Under the very eyes of hard-eyed Nazi guards, 76 Allied officers accomplish a mass breakout from a top-security prison camp. The preparations are shown in almost hypnotic detail, and once the escape is under way, the suspense tightens like pincers. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasence, Richard Attenborough head an excellent all-male cast.
A Gathering of Eagles. The best parts of this film about the Strategic Air Command are scenes where SAC itself provides the action. Rock Hudson takes over a bomber wing and finds himself flying in a domestic circle.
8 1/2. Italian Director Federico Fellini (aided by Marcello Mastroianni) lays bare his psyche in this richly visual, often perplexing film that is clearly autobiographical and monumentally abstract.
This Sporting Life. This English picture is brutally honest as long as it stays on the playing fields. But when its rugby-playing hero gets tangled in a love affair, both he and the plot become confused.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Cat and Mouse, by Guenter Grass. Best-selling Novelist Grass (The Tin Drum) relates the torment of a young man whose prominent Adam's apple makes him an outcast to his classmates. He strives for achievement and wins it, but to the "cat"-human conformity--he is still a curiosity.
The Nun of Monza, by Mario Mazzucchelli. Based on archives opened six years ago in Milan, this book takes a fresh look at a lurid story that shocked 17th century Italy. It takes 14 years of solitary penitence before Sister Virginia of Monza is finally forgiven for her passionate, protracted love affair with a reckless nobleman.
They Fought Alone, by John Keats. The story of the American and Philippine guerrillas who stayed on Mindanao in 1942 under the inventive leadership of Colonel Wendell Fertig. A rewarding narrative by the author of The Insolent Chariots.
The Tenants of Moonbloom, by Edward Lewis Wallant. A horrifying look behind the doors of New York's wretched slum tenements. The novel's hero is a rent collector who goes bleakly from house to house until he can no longer stand it, and sets out to restore the buildings and his own spirit.
Aneurin Bevan, by Michael Foot. A good, sympathetic biography of the Welsh mine worker who went on to become an ardent Socialist, a brilliant parliamentarian and, for years, the fieriest voice in Britain's Labor Party.
The Collector, by John Fowles. A taut thriller about a dour young man who spots the girl of his clouded dreams--and sets about getting her with a chloroformed gag, a getaway truck, and a cottage in the country that has a priest's hole in the cellar.
Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A charming, lazy British scholar arrives for a sabbatical year at a well-endowed New England college and discovers that it offers just the sinecure he has been looking for. An acid satire on the university-foundation circuit, written by the wife of Britain's Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, who was a visiting fellow at Connecticut's Wesleyan College in 1961.
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Until World War II contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought the Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II, "the Whiz Kids," and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech.
Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara.
For those who take their campus politics seriously, this hefty bestseller recounts the maneuverings of a New York socialite to land her husband the president's job in a small Pennsylvania college.
Mrs. G.B.S., by Janet Dunbar. She wasn't gay, witty or pretty--qualities Shaw admired extravagantly in other women--but her quiet nature excellently balanced his.
Their marriage began, as Shaw would tell anyone who would listen, as "intellectual companionship" and ended 45 years later when she died, "in deep devotion."
Best Sellers FICTION
1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1, last week)
2. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (2)
3. City of Night, Rechy (3)
4. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (4)
5. Caravans, Michener (8)
6. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (5)
7. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (6)
8. The Collector, Fowles (7)
9. The Concubine, Lofts (9)
10. Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger (10)
NONFICTION
1. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (1)
2. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (4)
3. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (2)
4. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (3)
5. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (9)
6. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (5)
7. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (6)
8. Notebooks 1935-1942, Camus (7)
9. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (10)
10. Portrait of Myself, Bourke-White
* -- All times E.D.T.
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