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...DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A comedy (for a change) about a play trying out in Boston with the cast getting thrown in jail. Barbara Baxley, Barbara Harris and Elliott Reid guest-star...
Taste, restraint, and precision characterize She Loves Me, notably in the staging of musical numbers by Carol Haney, a stylist of spoof with the wit to be brief. In a wry ballad of self-castigation, Comedienne Barbara Baxley kisses the pleasures of sex and the single girl goodbye while Jack ("Grand Knowing You") Cassidy is the cat's whiskers dipped in cream as the roue who drove her to ruing. Vitally integrated with the book are the lyrics and music of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who have produced a light operatic score in which song follows song...
...with a yachtsy-totsy (Constance Ford). "Don't you have a husband?" he wonders. "Yes," she muses, "but he wouldn't appeal to you." When the cruise is over, Berry-berry moves off with a box of the lady's baubles, picks up a schoolteacher (Barbara Baxley) on Christmas vacation, knocks out a few of her teeth in a barroom brawl, lands in the frost in St. Louis...
...brought to this some well-written scenes and his usual technical dexterity. But even considering how amusing the play can be, and eloquent and skillful, and how well George Roy Hill has directed and Barbara Baxley, James Daly and Robert Webber have acted it, a good deal seems somehow unsatisfying. There is, in the end, too much sense of mere surface, of flare-ups with more theater in them than truth, of Freud pinch-hitting for flesh and blood, of amusing little leitmotivs in place of incisive motivations. There is not much organic development, and at times scenes dribble...
...disturbing, 65-minute plunge in the garbage-choked stream of a neurotic consciousness. The script, written in raw, hard-sell poetry ("The slime of loveless love, masturbation by proxy") by Ben (The Asphalt Jungle} Maddow, traces a year in the life and mind of a young divorcee (Barbara Baxley), "living on bourbon, cottage cheese and alimony" in Los Angeles. "Sick of the touch of human skin," she lives alone at first, lolls in beauty shops, dawdles in poker palaces, waits for "a disk jockey to pick her number out of a phone book" and give her "a life supply...