Wednesday, November 5 SINATRA (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).* A concert of hits -- ranging from Cole Porter to Rod McKuen -- that span the career of the man who made this music his.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The sentimental story of A Man and a Woman (1966), which received an Academy Award thanks to Director Claude Lelouch's deft use of cinematic tricks to compose some of filmdom's most stylish scenes.
Thursday, November 6 DEBBIE REYNOLDS AND THE SOUND OF CHILDREN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Hundreds of children -- from toddlers to teens -- join Debbie in an original musical interpretation of the rhyme that begins, "Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace."
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-10. p.m.). Bob makes memories when he dishes out an updated version of the 1933 musical Roberta, with a talented assist from Michele Lee, John Davidson and Janis Paige.
NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.).
!Heimskringla! or the Stoned Angels is a drama by Paul Foster about Leif Ericsson's discovery of America. Performed by Ellen Stewart's La Mama Troupe, it is directed by Tom O'Horgan, of Hair fame.
IT TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Rob ert Wagner and Fred Astaire allow them selves to become entangled with four beautiful women in "The Three Virgins of Rome." Three are in paintings, now about that live one . . .
Friday, November 7 GET SMART (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Max takes a bum map from the most lovable crook in the world. Simon the Likable (Jack Gilford), and ends up in the middle of KAOS when he uses it while rushing Agent 99 to the hospital. Since this is the first of a two-parter, 99 will labor long before giving birth to twins next week.
Saturday, November 8 THIS WAY TO SESAME STREET (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Thanks to Xerox, NBC gives a special preview of a National Educational Television series, Sesame Street, an hour-long show for preschool children starting Nov. 10.
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Los Angeles Times Grand Prix from Riverside, Calif., and the World Figure Skating Championships exhibition from Colorado Springs, Colo.
THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). On hand for the varied festivities are Judy Collins, the Osmond Brothers, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, and those omnipresent video exiles, the Smothers Brothers.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES-WORLD PREMIERE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Rod Serling's trilogy of strange human relation ships, Night Gallery, each tale focuses on a painting and the people involved with it. The first picture is of a tortured Jew in a concentration camp; Richard Kiley stars as an ex-Nazi. The second features Joan Crawford as an art-collecting blind woman who will do anything for a few hours of sight. The last painting shows first one, then several open graves, after Roddy McDowall decides to hurry the death of his rich uncle.
Sunday, November 9
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, jousts verbally with his friendly adversary, the Fourth Estate.
DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "Gandhi" is a drama sprinkled with film clips of the Indian leader's life.
AN EVENING WITH JULIE ANDREWS AND HARRY BELAFONTE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Should be a nice night.
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner in John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, (1965).
Monday, November 10 NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Who Speaks for Man?" is a critical appraisal of the world's collective conscience, the United Nations. Interviews with Abba Eban, George Wald and Carlos Romulo are part of the examination of the U.N.'s action and inaction.
THEATER On Broadway
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. The basic plot of this tepid little comedy is an old chestnut, dropping with a slightly pathetic spin: Blind Boy meets Girl, Blind Boy loses Girl, Blind Boy gets Girl. Playwright Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself, but simply a one-man situation-and-gag file.
INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has taken up the cause of the American Indian and has tried to mesh segments of a vaudeville-styled Buffalo Bill Wild West show with segments of Hochhuth-Brechtian didactic polemicism. The idea is to spank the audience while making it laugh, but the whole thing refuses to cohere. Stacy Keach, however, plays Buffalo Bill with relish, flamboyance and charm.
THREE MEN ON A HORSE is a revival of the 1935 comedy, with a cast of superb character actors playing together like an ensemble company. Jack Gilford deftly fits his long, lugubrious countenance around the part of Erwin, ace composer of Mother's Day verses for a greeting-card company. Patsy, the horse player, is played by Sam Levene, and Dorothy Loudon as Patsy's moll does a solo in her underwear that would give any choreographer something to think about.
A PATRIOT FOR ME. Playwright John Osborne tells the story of Alfred Redl, a homosexual officer of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was forced to commit suicide when it was found that he had been selling state secrets to the Russians. Osborne's voice is badly muffled, and he cannot seem to work up the passion to breathe an inner life into the play.
Off Broadway
FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES is a revival of the 1967 prison drama, restaged by Hollywood Actor Sal Mineo in a version calculated to fill what he must feel is a sado-masochism gap. Filled with the sight and sound of faces being beaten bloody on the shower floor, genitals being punched, bodies being raped, slugged, thrown and twisted in agony, this latest entry to homosexual theater is a carefully placed kick in the groin.
A WHISTLE IN THE DARK is Thomas Murphy's drama of a brutish Irishman and his four sons who move in on a fifth son who has tried to flee their world of tooth and claw by moving to England. The play is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace, stating truths about human nature that one would often rather forget.
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair by Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adaptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence McNally's Next has James Coco in a fine performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations.
NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY. Playwright Charles Gordone, aided by a skillful cast, examines the fabric of black-white and black-black relationships with uninhibited fury--and unexpected humor.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK. An able interracial cast in a tribute to the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry presents readings from her works--journals, letters and snippets of plays.
CINEMA
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, two of the screen's most anti-hero heroes, find compassion and companionship in each other to make this one of the most memorable love stories in American cinema history.
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen (who shared the authorship of this zany crime flick) has the star (an inept criminal played by Woody Allen) go through so many bungles that the film loses much of its comic momentum. However, the director (Woody Allen) sustains it all by providing some insanely funny moments.
MEDIUM COOL. Writer-Director Haskell Wexler challenges Hollywood both with stylistic innovations and by dwelling on contemporary politics (the Chicago convention). Add forcefully realistic performances by a cast of unknowns and the result is dynamite.
EASY RIDER. Using townspeople playing themselves and drawing a topnotch performance from Jack Nicholson, Actor-Director Dennis Hopper has added a new dimension to the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer.
ADALEN '31. Director Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan) paints a poignant portrait of people caught in the flux of history and conveys the ineffable quality of a single decisive moment in a man's life.
THE BED SITTING ROOM. This is Director Richard Lester's second surrealistic attack on the homicidal excesses of war; it makes his first aggressive stab against the military (How I Won the War) look like a warm-up exercise.
BOOKS
Best Reading
BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER, by Calvin Trillin. Soft implosions of mirthful satire that trouble the social and political pretensions of those who would be with it.
POWER, by Adolf A. Berle. A former F.D.R. brain-truster and State Department official compellingly examines the sources and limitations of power and its relationship to ethics.
A SEA CHANGE, by J. R. Salamanca. Bitterness and tenderness are the alternating currents in this novel of the breakup of a marriage by the author of The Lost Country and Lilith.
"AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL, by John Kenneth Galbraith. Kept during the author's two years as Ambassador to India, this diary is rare both for first-rate prose and succinct irreverent opinion ("The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women").
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by Antonia Fraser. A rich, billowing biography of a pretty queen who, by casting herself as a religious martyr, has upstaged her mortal enemy, Queen Elizabeth I, in the imagination of posterity.
THEM, by Joyce Carol Gates. One family's battle to escape the economic and spiritual depression of urban American life is the theme of this novel by the author of A Garden of Earthly Delights and Expensive People.
CUSTER DIED FOR YOUR SINS, by Vine Deloria. A savagely funny and perceptive book by a young member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe examines the modern plight of red men beset by white plunderers and progressives alike.
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.
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.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Godfather, Puzo (1 last week)
2. The Love Machine, Susann (2)
3. The House on the Strand, du Maurier (3)
4. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (6)
5. Naked Came the Stranger, Ashe (4)
6. The Promise, Potok (5)
7. In This House of Brede, Godden (10)
8. The Seven Minutes, Wallace (8)
9. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (7)
10. The Pretenders, Davis (9)
NONFICTION
1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1)
2. My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy, Gallagher (2)
3. The Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss (5)
4. Prime Time, Kendrick (3)
5. Present at the Creation, Acheson
6. My Life and Prophecies, Dixon and Noorbergen (7)
7. The Honeycomb, St. Johns (8)
8. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (4)
9. The Making of the President 1968, White (6)
10. Think, Rodgers
*All times E.S.T.
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