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AMERICAN PROFILE: MUSIC FROM THE LAND (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Eddy Arnold narrates the saga of country and western music from its humble hillbilly origins to its current popularity across the U.S. Among the performers: Flatt and Scruggs, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Minnie Pearl and John Lowdermilk, plus film clips of Jimmy Rodgers, Tex Ritter and the late Hank Williams...
...series of compressed vignettes, punctuated by wild car chases to the accompaniment of Flatt & Scruggs banjo music, the film describes the criminal career of Bonnie. Clyde and the friends and relations they collect along the way. Their initially clumsy and comic efforts at robbing banks become increasingly bloody as the film proceeds, until the imagery of incredible violence is the only real visual counterpoint to the desolate image of the landscape. And this is violence unlike that of any other film. Instead of the crisp theatricality and well-timed effects of a movie like The Dirty Dozen, Penn forces...
...FLATT AND SCRUGGS AT CARNEGIE HALL (Columbia). Flatt, the Ev Dirksen of country talkin', and Scruggs, the Paganini of the five-string banjo, in further fruitful collaboration-this time before a downhome crowd up North...
Wednesday, August 21 The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Folk Musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs make a special guest appearance as former suitors of Cousin Pearl...
There have been a few failures in what Dr. Flatt cautiously insists is still an experimental operation. It is, he estimates, suitable for only about one in eight of the arthritic patients who would have some kind of joint surgery anyway. But other surgeons are trying it hopefully. For patients so crippled that they could not even tie shoes, moderate relief is a boon. A few, like the Iowa barber, are able to write again two weeks after the operation...