TELEVISION
Wednesday, June 25
SPECTRUM (NET, 8-8:30 p.m.).* In 1968, five North American scientists received the Nobel Prize in all three science categories—physics, chemistry, and medicine and physiology. In their working environments, “The Prizewinners” talk about their projects.
Thursday, June 26
THE MAMA CASS TELEVISION PROGRAM (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Guests on Cass’s first special are Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Buddy Hackett, John Sebastian, Mary Travers and Joni Mitchell.
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). In his last film, The Defector (1966), Montgomery Clift plays an American professor visiting East Germany who gets involved with Roddy McDowall of the CIA and East German Agent Hardy Kruger.
Saturday, June 28
AAU TRACK AND FIELD MEETS (CBS, 4:30-6 p.m.). The National AAU men’s championships from Miami. Continued Sunday at the same time.
COACHES’ ALL-AMERICA GAME (ABC, 8:30 p.m. to conclusion). Last season’s outstanding college-football players, picked by their coaches, display their talents at Atlanta Stadium in Georgia.
Sunday, June 29
U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 4:30-6 p.m.). Final round, live from the course of the Scenic Hills Country Club in Pensacola, Fla.
THE 21st CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). “Stranger Than Science Fiction” illustrates, through science-fiction film clips from the past, that all those wildest dreams (ground-to-air missiles and trips to the moon) came true. Repeat.
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.).
Highlights from the fourth annual Memphis Blues Festival, this year celebrating the 150th anniversary of Memphis, featuring country blues, local white blues and jazz musicians. Steve Allen is the program’s host.
Monday, June 30
YOU’RE PUTTING ME ON (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A game show with permanent panelists Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen and Larry Blyden. Premiere.
THE WARREN YEARS (NET, 9-10:30 p.m.).
Marking the end of a 16-year era of change, controversy and revolution in interpretation of the nation’s laws, this special takes a look at Earl Warren the man, the record of the Warren Court, its role in society and the other Justices of the Supreme Court.
Tuesday, July 1
TODAY (NBC, 7-11:30 a.m.). Ray Scherer and Barbara Walters at Caernarvon Castle in Wales witness Prince Charles’ investiture as Prince of Wales. CBS will cover the same ground with Morley Safer and Winston Burdett (8-11:30 a.m., with highlights broadcast from 10-10:30 p.m.), while ABC’s Frank Reynolds and George Watson will cover the ceremonies from 9:30-11 a.m.
catch-edged tones build to a bluesy intensity on Damn If I Know, and on Frankenstein, to outright urgency.
JACKIE McLEAN, ‘BOUT SOUL (Blue Note).
Alto Saxophonist McLean and his sextet spend much of this album on the wayout side of traditional harmonic borders, yet their energetic improvisation never quite descends to pandemonium. The group’s most piercingly effective exchanges between alto, trumpet, trombone and the rhythm sections take place on Conversation Point and Erdu. On a track called Soul, they lay down a blues background for Poetess Barbara Simmons as she recites her tribute to blackness.
ALBERT AYLER, NEW GRASS (impulse!). Alto Saxophonist Ayler uses a gospel-rock background and a group called The Soul Singers to help him get a mystical word across: “The music I bring to you is of a different dimension in my life, the message one of spiritual love, peace and understanding.” The tension of his wavering whines and reedy growls is somewhat dispelled by the propelling, regular beat, making such tunes as New Generation and Everybody’s Movin’ an oddly felicitous blend of spiritual and material.
PHAROAH SANDERS, KARMA (impulse!) Sanders reaches to the religions of the Far East for his spiritual overtones, using an assortment of percussion instruments, horns, bells and even incantations. In The Creator Has a Master Plan, sensuous, mesmerizing sounds roll over repeated phrases, curling peaceably upward like incense. In Colors, Pharoah’s tenor saxophone begins a tempest of cries and emphatic screeches that hint at lurking discord in the universe. The harmonious moments of his music, though, far outnumber the discomforting ones, and suggest a passionate belief in man’s perfectibility.
CINEMA
THE WILD BUNCH is Director Sam Peckinpah’s way of telling the truth while preserving the legend of the West. His bandits, led by William Holden, are drawn by their own peculiar code of honor into a bloody finish that surpasses Bonnie and Clyde for violence.
PEOPLE MEET AND SWEET MUSIC FILLS THE HEART. There is welcome relief in this bizarre Danish film satirizing all that explicit cinematic sexuality.
THE LOVES OF ISADORA is distinguished only by Vanessa Redgrave’s graceful and majestic performance. The truncated scenario is essentially true to events but essentially false to Isadora, who made them happen.
WINNING. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward give unduly serious attention to this somewhat bathetic tale of marital infidelity, set against the noisy background of auto racing. The Newmans are good to watch in just about anything, but this particular vehicle is badly in need of a dramatic tune-up.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. James Leo Herlihy’s novel about the unlikely friendship of a Texas drifter and a Bronx loner has been transformed by Director John Schlesinger (Darling) into a portrait of nighttown America that is notable for the acting of Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Love is literally blind in this black comedy about a wealthy Englishman (Nicol Williamson) who becomes obsessed with a lascivious movie usherette (Anna Karina). Williamson gives a strong performance as a weak man. The script—from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel—is intelligent, and Tony Richardson’s direction is undoubtedly his best since The Entertainer.
POPI. Alan Arkin is magnificent as a Puerto Rican widower struggling to get his two sons out of the New York ghetto in this funny, occasionally angry little comedy that is one of the year’s most refreshing films.
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER. These two children’s films are distinguished by their lack of coyness and a singleminded refusal to condescend to their audience. Mountain concerns a Canadian lad who runs off to the woods, and Ring tells the sprightly tale of a London accountant and his pet otter.
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. When he wrote Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth had something more in mind than a story of young love in Jewish suburbia. That, however, is the sum total of this film adaptation, directed by Larry Peerce and nicely acted by Richard Benjamin and a newcomer named Ali MacGraw.
THE FIXER. A persecuted Jewish handyman in turn-of-the-century Russia battles his fate with an intensity that makes this John Frankenheimer film a harrowing and moving experience. Alan Bates (in the title role), Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm perform their difficult assignments with fierce passion.
THE ROUND UP and THE RED AND THE WHITE are two Hungarian movies that share a common loathing for war and a barely controlled hatred for its perpetrators. Miklos Jancso has created two bitter and handsome films.
BOOKS
Best Reading
WHAT I’M GOING TO DO, I THINK, by L. Woiwode. A young couple, expecting a baby, embarks on a seemingly idyllic honeymoon in the Michigan woods and discovers terrors in paradise. A remarkable first novel.
THE ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs.
Operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, but with a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers.
THE RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abé. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan’s finest novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity.
ADA, by Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half-sister and a halfbrother, by the finest living writer of English fiction.
THE LONDON NOVELS OF COLIN MaclNNES (CITY OF SPADES, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, MR. LOVE AND JUSTICE). Icy observations and poetic perceptions of the back alleys and subcultures in that pungent city on the Thames.
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another schlemiel, but this one is canonized by Malamud’s compassionate talent.
THE GUNFIGHTER, by Joseph G. Rosa. A balanced wide-screen view of the often unbalanced men who infested the Wild West.
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men—one mild and monogamous, the other tormented and libertine—over the fate of a boy.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the catastrophic Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, funny and rueful fable has much to say about human cruelty and indifference.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Love Machine, Susann (2 last week)
2. Portnoy’s Complaint, Roth (1)
3. The Godfather, Puzo (3)
4. Ada, Nabokov (4)
5. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (9)
6. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (5)
7. Bullet Park, Cheever (7)
8. Except for Me and Thee, West (6)
9. Airport, Hailey (8)
10. The Vines of Yarrabee, Eden
NONFICTION
1. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (1)
2. Jennie, Martin (4)
3. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (3)
4. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (2)
5. Miss Craig’s 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (6)
6. The 900 Days, Salisbury (9)
7. The Money Game, ‘Adam Smith’ (5)
8. An American Melodrama, Chester, Hodgson and Page
9. The Trouble with Lawyers, Bloom 10. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (10)
* All times E.D.T.
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