Wednesday, October 8 WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.).* Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, in love and not so in love, are Two For the Road (1967) on the Cote d'Azur.
Funny, incisive and stylish, the film fea tures Frederic Raphael's script and Stan ley Donen's direction.
Thursday, October 9 NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' one-act play, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (which later became his three-act allegory, Camino Real) stars Martin Sheen as Kilroy, Lotte Lenya as the Gypsy, Hurd Hatfield as Jacques Casanova and Carrie Nye as Marguerite Gautier. Repeat.
Saturday, October 11 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). World Table Tennis Championships from Munich, Germany, and the Duke Kahanamoku Hawaiian Big Wave Surfing Championship from Sunset Beach, Hawaii.
N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4-7:30 p.m.).
Oklahoma v. Texas, at Dallas.
THE WORLD SERIES (NBC, check local listings for time). National and American League champs get together on the home field of the American League pennant win ner. Coverage continues through the week.
Sunday, October 12 THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).
Shirley Bassey and Oliver will sing, Woody Allen will be funny, and Lee Marvin will scowl his way through a song from Paint Your Wagon.
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).
Fantastic Voyage involves a miniaturized medical team doing tricky brain surgery from inside the patient. The special ef fects are spectacular and won the 1966 Oscar. Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch play two of the tiny people.
Monday, October 13 CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Old Vaudevillians Donald O'Connor and Jimmy Durante take a few turns.
NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Life Style" is a film made by a group of Berke ley students about themselves, and about the things that hassle them: black-white re lationships, police and politics, parents and privacy.
MITZI'S 2ND SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A musical version of Gone With the Wind, with Mitzi Gaynor and Ross Martin.
Tuesday, October 14 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Heinz Seilmann, the noted wildlife photographer and naturalist, patiently filmed unusual scenes depicting "The Mystery of Animal Behavior" in Aus tralia, Alaska, Africa, Germany. Nesting birds, pregnant fish and socially interacting sea otters behave for the camera.
NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10:30 p.m.). As Peggy Lee prepares for a nightclub appearance at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, the steps leading to opening night are recorded, with a delectable lot of Miss Lee's singing along the way.
THEATER
On Broadway
FORTY CARATS. Julie Harris manages to look both pretty and plausible as a 40-year-old divorcee who is wooed and finally wed by a young man in his 20s.
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen's new comedy seems more a prolonged nightclub routine than a play, but his kooky view of the world and his nimble jokes make for an amusing evening.
Off Broadway
SALVATION. Begat by Hair; this new musical is an aesthetically retarded child that epitomizes Modcom--the commercial exploitation of modernity without regard for dramatic art. Like other Modcom productions that peddle the youth cult, Salvation is replete with cynical simulations of innocence, freedom and dissent.
ADAPTATION--NEXT. Elaine May's Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next are a happy combination of funny one-acters. Both plays are directed by Miss May with her usual wit and comic perception.
NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a sometimes rambling, but always absorbing study of the contemporary fabric of black-white and black-black relations.
OH! CALCUTTA! The talented authors of this "nudie review" have not come through with their promised elegant erotica--but the handsome bodies onstage help compensate for the disappointment.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK. An adroit cast presents moving readings and dramatizations from the works of the late Lorraine Hansberry.
DAMES AT SEA is a delightful parody of the movie musicals of the 1930s, complete with all the frenetic dance routines and a classic cliche: the naive young girl who survives the Broadway jungle to tap her way to stardom.
CINEMA
THE GYPSY MOTHS. Superficially a film about skydiving, The Gypsy Moths is in fact another investigation by Director John Frankenheimer into the nature and quality of courage. The story seems too slender and deliberate to bear its weight of rather sophomoric philosophy.
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen appears as a crook in this crazy crime flick (which he also directed and coauthored) that comes on like gangbusters.
MEDIUM COOL is an angry essay, in fictive documentary form, on American society in crisis. Writer-Director-Photographer Haskell Wexler uses the framework of a TV cameraman's experiences during last summer's Chicago convention to render the year's most impassioned and impressive film.
THE WILD BUNCH. The place is the Tex-Mex border, around the turn of the century, where a group of freebooting bandits try to scrounge a living out of a life that is fast becoming obsolete. Director Sam Peckinpah explores this violent world with hard-edged poetry and a sense of visual splendor that establishes him as one of the best American film makers.
STAIRCASE. There are two good reasons to see this film version of Charles Dyer's play, and they are Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. Portraying a bickering, desperate homosexual couple on the brink of old age, both men turn in their best screen performances in years.
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn has turned Arlo Outline's jaunty talking blues hit of a couple of years back into a melancholy epitaph for an entire way of life. It is hard to imagine a more beautiful film than this--or a sadder one.
TRUE GRIT. At 62, John Wayne is still riding tall in the saddle. Playing a hard-drinking but softhearted lawman in this cornball western comedy, Wayne proves that his nickname, "The Duke," has never been more apt.
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.
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.
BOOKS
Best Reading
MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., by Coretta Scott King. Intimate touches and a personal context lend new dimensions and drama to the life of her doomed and dedicated husband.
BIRDS, BEASTS AND RELATIVES, by Gerald Durrell. Zoology begins at home, or at least that's the way it seems to Naturalist Durrell, who recalls his boyhood infatuation with animals and his family's strained tolerance of some of the things that followed him into the house.
DR. BOWDLER'S LEGACY: A HISTORY OF EXPURGATED BOOKS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by Noel Perrin. Examining the literary atrocities of squeamish expurgators, the author has created a brilliant little work of cultural history full of wit and learning.
THE WATERFALL, by Margaret Drabble. The author's finest novel is a superb audit of the profits and losses of love for a woman threatening to destroy herself and those who care for her.
THE EGG OF THE GLAK AND OTHER STORIES, by Harvey Jacobs. Bizarre urban fairy tales delivered with the kick and rhythm of a nightclub comedian.
JESUS REDISCOVERED, by Malcolm Muggeridge. The 66-year-old British cultural curmudgeon writes tellingly of the ways, means and meditations that led to his conversion to Christianity.
FAT CITY, by Leonard Gardner. A brilliant exception to the general rule that boxing fiction seldom graduates beyond the level of caricature.
THE FRENCH: PORTRAIT OF A PEOPLE, by Sanche de Gramont. Only the cuisine comes off unscathed in this entertaining analysis vinaigrette of the French national character.
FLASHMAN: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1839-1842, edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser. But don't believe it for a minute. Though Flashman has fooled several scholars, it is actually an agreeable fictional takeoff on assorted tales of British derring-do in the days of the Empah.
THE COST OF LIVING LIKE THIS, by James Kennaway. An intense and coldly realistic novel about a man's coming to terms with two women who love him and the cancer that is pinching off his life.
DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, by Jorge Amado. A sensuous tale of a virtuous lady and her conjugal rites--as vivid and cheerfully bawdy as Boccaccio.
THE BIG LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. Consul General to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer.
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 notes and criticism, the prolific novelist repeatedly 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 be more welcome than well-made fiction.
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.
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.
SIAM 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.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Godfather, Puzo (1 last week)
2. The Love Machine, Susann (2)
3. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (6)
4. The Pretenders, Davis (5)
5. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (3)
6. Naked Came the Stranger, Ashe (4)
7. A Place in the Country, Gainham (10)
8. The Promise, Potok (9)
9. Ada, Nabokov (7)
10. Except for Me and Thee, West
NONFICTION
1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1)
2. The Making of the President 1968, White (2)
3. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (3)
4. My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy, Gallagher (4)
5. The Honeycomb, St. Johns
6. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (6)
7. Jennie, Martin (9)
8. My Life and Prophecies, Dixon and Noorbergen
9. Captive City, Demaris (7)
10. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (5)
*All times E.D.T.
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