TELEVISION
Wednesday, September 10 MARCUS WELBY, M.D. (ABC, 9-11 p.m.)* Robert Young stars as the dedicated family physician and James Brolin is his assistant in this movie (which becomes a series this fall). Guest stars include Anne Baxter, Susan Strasberg and Lew Ayres.
MONSANTO NIGHT PRESENTS LENA HORNE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lena makes musicwith David (The Fugitive) Janssen, Singer O. C. Smith and Hungarian Folk Guitarist Gabor Szabo.
Thursday, September 11 NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Lou Gilbert isa gentle ragpicker on the Manhattan waterfront whose attempt to help a girl leads to his own destruction in Across the River. Repeat.
PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Paul Scofield, Anna Calder-Marshall and Sir Laurence Olivier star in the Emmy-winning "Male of the Species." Repeat.
Friday, September 12 WHO KILLED LAKE ERIE? (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Civilization.
N.C.A.A. CENTENNIAL (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Film clips of famous plays and players high light this commemoration of the 100th anniversary of college football in the U.S.
Saturday, September 13 SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11:15p.m.). Gregory Peck in his Oscar-winning performance as the small-town Southern lawyer who defends a young black (Brock Peters) on a rape charge in To Kill a Mockingbird (1963).
N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). The Air Force Academy v. Southern Methodist University at Dallas.
Sunday, September 14 AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLE HEADER (NBC, 1:30 p.m. to conclusion). The New York Jets -- Buffalo Bills game from Buffalo is followed by a regional game. Check local listings for your area.
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Two Ballet Birds" are the musical scores of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and excerpts from The Fire bird Suite by Stravinsky.
ARCHIE AND HIS NEW PALS (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Archie, Reggie, Jughead, Veronica, Big Moose and a new character, Sabrina, the Teen-age Witch, come to animated life from the pages of the comics.
DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (CBS. 8-9 p.m.). "Make Room for Granddaddy" is a reunion of the cast that made scratch for Danny for eleven seasons on the old Dan ny Thomas show.
THE BILL COSBY SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Bill stars as a high-school physical-education teacher, Chet Kincaid, who is constantly getting involved with other people's lives. This week it is a garage me chanic's marital problems. Premiere.
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The Endless Summer (1966) is the tale of two California surfers and their travels in search of the perfect wave.
N.F.L. PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 9 p.m. to conclusion). The Baltimore Colts v. the Dallas Cowboys from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
THE BOLD ONES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A new series of dramas about doctors, lawyers and law-enforcement officials, featuring three different casts. E. G. Marshall, John Saxon and David Hartman star as the modern medicine men in "To Save a Life." Premiere.
Monday, September 15 MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). William Windom (John Monroe) is a cartoonist-writer in this comedy series based on the work of Humorist James Thurber. Joan Hotchkis is his wife and Lisa Gerritsen is their daughter. Premiere.
NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class" is a study of the middle-class Negro's conflict between his new status and his sympathy with the black movement. Repeat.
PRO FOOTBALL-BIG GAME AMERICA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Burt Lancaster narrates this salute to the 50th anniversary of pro football.
Tuesday, September 16 THE DEBBIE REYNOLDS SHOW (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Debbie plays a housewife named Debbie Thompson who sets out to prove to her husband (Don Chastain) that she should be hired as a reporter on his newspaper. Premiere.
THE FOLK GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A contemporary gospel music special featuring Mahalia Jackson, the Staple Singers, Clara Walker and the Gospel Redeemers.
CINEMA
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) has transformed Arlo Guthrie's rambling, hilarious talking-blues record of a couple of seasons back into a melancholy epitaph for an entire era. With its combination of wild humor and lingering sadness, Restaurant is one of the most perceptive films about young people ever made in this country.
MEDIUM COOL is dynamite. A loose narrative about a TV cameraman during last summer's Chicago convention, Cool is the most impassioned and impressive film so far this year. Haskell Wexler makes a dazzling directorial debut by fusing dramatic and documentary footage into a vivid portrait of a nation in conflict.
STAIRCASE. Rex Harrison and Richard Burton portray two bickering homosexuals struggling to stave off old age and loneliness in this unobtrusive film that never yields to the temptation to play its two deviate characters for laughs.
THE WILD BUNCH. There's a lot of blood in this raucous, magnificent western directed by Sam Peckinpah, and a good deal of hard-edged poetry as well. The plot--about a bunch of freebooters on the Texican-Mexico border at the turn of the century, the actors are faultless to a man. and the film itself is one of the best of the year.
MARRY ME, MARRY ME. Courtship, love and marriage in a community of French Jews are the subjects of this wistful film directed by Claude Berri (The Two of Us).
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Man's first step on the moon lends new immediacy to Stanley Kubrick's epic film about a voyage to Jupiter that assumes awesome metaphysical consequences. Kubrick is one of the best American film makers, and 2001 may be his masterpiece.
RUN WILD, RUN FREE. Parents who think that most matinee movies more often seem to be made by children than for them will be pleasantly surprised by this subtle, low-keyed allegory of childhood's end about an autistic English boy (Mark Lester) and an almost magical white colt.
EASY RIDER. A hippie voyage of discovery featuring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directed) bombing cross-country on their cycles looking for the meaning of it all. The self-pity gets pretty thick at times, but there are some good vignettes of rural America and a supporting performance by Jack Nicholson that is worth the price of admission.
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne has his finest hour in this cornball western comedy. His genial, self-satirizing performance as an aging lawman proves that his nickname, Duke, has seldom been more apt.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. A slick package about being lonely and loveless in New York is directed by John Schlesinger in fashion-magazine style, but the acting of Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight gives the film a sense of poignancy and reality.
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Tony Richardson does his best film making since The Entertainer in this smooth and savage adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel about the hopeless love of a blind English aristocrat (Nicol Williamson) for a brazen movie usherette (Anna Karina).
POPI. The plight of the poor is told with humor and bite in this surprisingly successful comedy. Alan Arkin is magnificent as a Puerto Rican widower with three jobs, struggling to get his children out of a New York ghetto.
THE DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Another droll essay by Philippe de Broca on the intricacies of love, starring Yves Montand at his sardonic best.
BOOKS
Best Reading
DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, by Jorge Amado. A leisurely, sensuous tale of a virtuous lady and her conjugal rites --as vivid and bawdy as Boccaccio.
FLASHMAN: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1839-1842, edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser. But don't believe it for a minute. Though it has fooled several scholars, Flashman is actually an agreeable fictional takeoff on assorted British tales of derring-do in the days of the Empah.
MILE HIGH, by Richard Condon. The author's mania for mania is still evident. But this flawed novel about a man who invented, and then profited from, Prohibition eventually settles into unpalatable allegory.
SHAW: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1856-1898), selected by Stanley Weintraub. Shaw never wrote one. But this paste-and-scissors portrait fashioned from fragments of the great man's work serves its purpose well enough.
COLLECTED ESSAYS, by Graham Greene. In retrospective notes and criticism, the prolific novelist provocatively drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."
PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequitur Irish storyteller around, which may on occasion be more welcome than well-made fiction.
SI AM MIAMI, by Morris Renek. The trials of a pretty pop singer who tries to sell herself and save herself at the same time. Astoundingly, she manages both.
THE END OF LIBERALISM, by Theodore J. Lowi. Much liberal policy but little liberalizing practice has characterized the U.S. Government for more than 30 years, says this University of Chicago professor, who argues for a dumping of pragmatism and political pluralism in favor of tough, well-planned and well-enforced Government standards.
MYSTERIES OF EASTER ISLAND, by Francis Maziere. The brooding huge monoliths of Easter Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Maziere has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert.
THE YEAR OF THE WHALE, by Victor B. Scheffer. The most awesome of mammals has been left alone by literary men almost since Moby Dick. Now Dr. Scheffer, a scientist working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, writes of the whale's life cycle with a mixture of fact and feeling that evokes Melville's memory.
MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST, by Peter Kropotkin. The absorbing autobiography of a 19th century Russian prince turned anarchist who paid for his ideals in stretches of penury and imprisonment.
H. G. WELLS: HIS TURBULENT LIFE AND TIMES, by Lovat Dickson. Wells sold the masses on the future and the Utopia that science would bring, but Dickson shows that inside the complacent optimist a pessimist was signaling wildly to get out.
THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1968, by Theodore H. White. Whether following the poetic figure of Eugene McCarthy into the night or documenting Richard Nixon's electronic conquest of the nation, White is just as diligent as he was in his accounts of the two previous presidential races. However, his protagonist lacks the kind of flamboyance that fires up White's romantic mind, and as a result, a gray pall hangs over much of the book.
ISAAC BABEL: YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING, edited by Nathalie Babel. Newly translated short stories, abrupt prose exercises and journalistic sketches show the individuality that was both Babel's genius and his death warrant.
THE FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Godfather, Puzo (2 last week) 2. The Love Machine, Susann(l) 3. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (3) 4. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (4) 5. The Pretenders, Davis (5) 6. Ada, Nabokov (6) 7. Naked Came the Stranger, Ashe (7) 8. Except for Me and Thee, West (10) 9. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald (8) 10. The Death Committee, Gordon
NONFICTION 1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1) 2. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (2) 3. The Making of the President '68, White (3) 4. Jennie, Martin (5) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (4) 6. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (6) 7. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (8) 8. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(10) 9. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (7) 10. My Turn at Bat, Williams
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