Television
Wednesday, August 17
THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.)* Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman retell the story of imperial Russia's star-crossed Princess Anastasia, for which Bergman won a 1956 Academy Award.
Friday, August 19
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). In an exhibition game, the St. Louis Cardinals defend themselves against Quarterback Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts.
Saturday, August 20
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Men's Outdoor Swimming and Diving championships at Lincoln, Neb., plus a repeat of the whiz-bang U.S. Air Force Fighter Interceptor Rocketry Meet at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.
Sunday, August 21
LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "Games of God"--Part 6. Viola Spolin, creator of Chicago's Game Theater, conducts a new form of theater in which the audience, rather than players, participates.
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, ll:30-noon). "Discovery Goes to West Berlin" to talk with German children from the bilingual John F. Kennedy School on their reactions to the Wall, their thoughts about Nazi Germany and their views of Germany's future. Repeat.
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). In a tripleheader, CBS watches 24 surfers competing in the Duke Kahanamoku Surfing championships at Makaha Beach, Hawaii, then covers the North American Gymnastic championships in Montreal, and refreshes football fans' memories with highlights of the Baltimore Colts' 1965 season.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 3:30-5 p.m.). A joint interview with six prominent civil rights leaders: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Stokely Carmichael, Floyd B. McKissick and James H. Meredith.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Siege at Malta" recounts the heroic stand made by the citizens of the tiny Mediterranean island under incessant at tack by the German and Italian air forces during World War II.
THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Joanne Woodward's 1957 Academy Award-winning performance in The Three Faces of Eve, supported by David Wayne and Lee J. Cobb.
Tuesday, August 23
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eric Sevareid attempts to explain the Franco-American love-hate relationship from Benjamin Franklin's time to, as he calls it, "the present irritation." "Our Friends, the French" will be represented by four Frenchmen of strong opinions: Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, general director of Les Echos, a pro-De Gaulle paper; his cousin Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, general director of L'Express, an anti-De Gaulle magazine; Pierre Gallois, retired air force general and chief exponent of France's independent nuclear striking force; and Jacques Rueff, gold-standard devotee and De Gaulle's economic mentor. Repeat.
THEATER
Straw Hat
Broadway's biggest hits are almost always musicals, and the melodies linger on through the summer theater circuit:
BEVERLY, MASS. North Shore Music Theater: The Merry Widow, through Aug. 20.
HYANNIS, MASS. Cape Cod Melody Tent: Oliver!, through Aug. 20.
MOUNTAINDALE, N.Y. Mountaindale Playhouse: The Three Penny Opera, through Aug. 21.
HADDENFIELD, N.J. Camden County Music Fair: The Sound of Music, through Aug. 20.
PITTSBURGH. Civic Light Opera Company: Guys and Dolls, through Aug. 20.
DEVON, PA. Valley Forge Music Fair: The Pajama Game, through Aug. 20.
TANNERSVILLE, PA. Cherry Lane Playhouse: Annie Get Your Gun, through Aug. 27.
CANAL FULTON, OHIO. Canal Fulton Theater: My Fair Lady, through Aug. 21.
KANSAS CITY, MO. Starlight Theater: Guys and Dolls, through Aug. 21.
FISH CREEK, WIS. Peninsula Playhouse: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, through Aug. 28.
NORTH SALT LAKE, UTAH. Valley Music Hall: The Music Man, through Aug. 20.
BERKELEY, CALIF. Ben Kapen's Melodyland: Oliver!, through Aug. 21.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Sacramento Music Circus: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, through Aug. 28.
RECORDS
Pop LPs
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT (Reprise). Frank Sinatra knows every nook and cranny of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, as many of bands (Strangers in the Night, All or at All) on his latest LP amply demonstrate. But Dad should leave Downtown's rock 'n' roll to the kids.
DON'T GO TO STRANGERS (Columbia). If Eydie Gorme isn't careful, she's liable to set the world on fire. On this album she lights the torch, contrives not to drench it with tears, and the result is fairly flaming.
10 GOLDEN YEARS (Decca). It seems incredible that Brenda Lee has been atop the subteen heap for ten years, but here's the anniversary album to bear witness. Now 21, Brenda simply won't gwow up.
HOW DOES THAT GRAB YOU? (Reprise). Nancy Sinatra, on the other hand, is growling up. She surrounds her hit single, How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?, with a battery of cool and cruel items like Sorry 'Bout That and Baby Cried All Night.
THE MORE I SEE YOU (A&M). Chris Montez sounds like a small boy whose voice isn't about to change, but he has a sure, light touch with such standards as Fly Me to the Moon and Little White Lies, and a shy, seraphic charm with just about everything else.
BORN FREE (MGM). Composer John Barry believes that "every film score should be able to stand on its own two musical feet--with or without the picture," and he proved it with his From Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball soundtracks. His Born Free should stand on all four.
LA MELODIE DU BONHEUR (RCA Victor). Tourists who happened to catch the movie version of Sound of Music in France heard this soundtrack and thought they'd tumbled onto Soeur Sourire. Not so. It is Mathe Altery being the voice of Julie Andrews--and she isn't very far removed.
1928 (RCA Victor Vintage). An album of original recordings from the late '20s with a number of rare gems--Gene Austin crooning Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, Vaughn de Leath treacling out Baby Your Mother, Jack Smith whispering Me and My Shadow and Irene Bordoni French-accenting her way through Cole Porter's saucy Don't Look at Me That Way.
ClNEMA
THE WRONG BOX. Directed by Bryan Forbes (King Rat), this black but buoyant British comedy features Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, John Mills and Peter Sellers as a group of improper Victorians scrambling after love or money in the gaslight era.
KHARTOUM. Cinerama recaptures the spectacular drama of the 1884 siege of Khartoum, where British General Charles Gordon (Charlton Heston) managed to withstand the Moslem assaults led by the Mahdi (Laurence Olivier) for 317 days before dying in one of history's more fascinating lost causes.
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION. This elegant comedy about a museum heist displays Audrey Hepburn as a would-be burglar and Peter O'Toole as her accomplice.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? The games people play on Faculty Row make for ferocious fun in a movie as powerful as Edward Albee's Broadway hit, with Richard Burton as a long-suffering history prof, Elizabeth Taylor as his untamed shrew.
THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Two young California surfers hit the beaches of Africa, Australia, Tahiti and Hawaii, where they discover that surfing is fast becoming an international pastime.
THE NAKED PREY. In a stunning, single-minded epic of survival, native warriors track Director-Star Cornel Wilde through scenic Africa of a century ago, where menace lurks behind every fern.
AND NOW MIGUEL. Life on a sheep ranch in the high plateau country of New Mexico proves adventurous for ten-year-old Miguel (Pat Cardi), whose only real problem is growing up.
LE BONHEUR. French Director Agnes Varda explores the gulf between male and female sensibility in this cynical fable of marital infidelity.
"THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." A bumbling Soviet submarine crew panics a tight little island off the New England coast, but the invasion scare is funniest when Broadway's Alan Arkin filters cold war jitters through the psyche of a reticent Russian sailor.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Of a dozen noteworthy first novels published this summer, four are especially distinguished. Robert Crichton's The Secret of Santa Vittoria, one of the funniest war novels since Mister Roberts, describes the ordeal of an Italian village that during World War II attempted to hide 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth from the German army. Beggars on Horseback, by James Mossman, is a grisly, giggly satire about a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom where the British muddle through until they fizzle out. Trust, by Cynthia Ozick, is a massive (568 pages) and almost continuously impressive attempt to reconstruct the near-religious experience of Marxism cum Utopianism that gripped American Jewry in the depressed and troubled '30s. Moss on the North Side, by Sylvia Wilkinson, is a poetic apperception of childhood elaborated by one of the most gifted women writers to emerge in the South since Carson McCullers.
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A brilliant gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex in which a goat (or is it a boy?) appears as the Messiah of a new religion.
HOW DID IT BEGIN? by Rudolph Brasch. An Australian rabbi has collected an intellectual's compendium of trivia dealing with the origins of countless things from trouser cuffs to Caesarean births to soap. The effect is as irresistible as peanuts at a party.
THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands.
LOVE'S BODY, by Norman O. Brown. Further Freudian ruminations, by the author of Life Against Death, on the theme of sexual repression as the greatest enemy of human happiness and freedom.
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. A warm and witty portrait that reveals Johnson's Boswell was less a fool than he is sometimes thought to be, though perhaps more a fool than he ought to have been.
A VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A man who learned to love life only when he had to leave it, Welch recounted with brilliance and precision the tragic motor accident that crippled him and the painful convalescence that only ended with his death at 33.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)
2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)
3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)
4. The Source, Michener (4)
5. The Detective, Thorp (7)
6. The Double Image, MacInness (5)
7. Tell No Man, St. Johns (6)
8. I, the King, Keyes (10)
9. Those Who Love, Stone (8) 10. The Embezzler, Auchincloss
NONFICTION
1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)
2. The Last Battle, Ryan (2)
3. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (3)
4. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (4)
5. In Cold Blood, Capote (5)
6. Games People Play, Berne (6)
7. The Big Spenders, Beebe (10)
8. The Crusades, Oldenbourg (7)
9. Two Under the Indian Sun, Godden and Godden (8)
10. Churchill, Moran (9)
*All times E.D.T.
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