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...western to end all westerns, the film has George Armstrong Custer, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill among its characters. But they all seem tame compared with the types portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam and Faye Dunaway. In Little Big Man, from Thomas Berger's picaresque novel, Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times...
...Basilic and Mickey Walker about the effect that "the slam-bang club fighter tactics of Rocky" would have on "the china chin of the Georgia Deacon." The scene set, Le-Bow then took over to describe the action, pausing now and then to note that Martha Raye and Martin Balsam were in the "audience" or, in the middle of a clinch, to exclaim: "The Rock looks down this way and winks, of all things! If this is all in fun, he had better tell Flowers about it!" Then, as the crowd noise mounted to a frenzy in the eleventh round...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Harlow (1965), starring Carroll Baker, with Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford...
...play starred Maureen Stapleton as an old maid who spends an afternoon roaming the burial grounds on the theory that, acre for acre, it is a better place than most to meet a widowed man-and a possible suitor. When she approaches one slightly retiring fellow, played by Martin Balsam, the dialogue casts its mood so well that it seems perfectly reasonable when she perches on his wife's tombstone and does her imitation of Helen Morgan singing a blues song. In the end, when he gently rebuffs her, she bravely goes off in search of another live...
AMONG THE PATHS TO EDEN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). A TV adaptation of Truman Capote's lonely-hearts story about two people who meet in a cemetery - a widower (Martin Balsam) paying his respects to his late wife and a spinster (Maureen Stapleton) who has heard that a graveyard is a good place to look for a husband...