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...HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ginger Rogers stars as the wicked and dangerous mother-in-law of a new bride (Carol Lawrence). Color...
CINDERELLA (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). A remake of the Rodgers & Hammerstein 1957 TV musical starring Lesley Warren (who played the ingénue lead in Broadway's 110 in the Shade) as Cinderella, Stuart Damon as the prince, Ginger Rogers as the queen, Walter Pidgeon as the king, Celeste Holm as the fairy godmother, and Jo Van Fleet as the stepmother. Color...
...called Divorce Me, Darling and spoofs the very same characters. In this one, however, the time is the 1930s rather than the '20s, and all the pretty young flappers have become sophisticated, cheating wives. The songs and routines are primarily parodies-of Cole and Noel, Fred and Ginger-and occasionally they are bang-on. But too often the emeritus flappers' old boop-boop-a-doop has gone poop; Wilson would do well to retire them before they are ready for The Old Man Friend...
...Singular Ginger. The novelist who is most truly black and funny about sex and death is James Patrick ("Mike") Donleavy, 42, who was born in Brooklyn, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and now divides his time between London and the Isle of Man. Donleavy succeeds better than any of the others in combining the age-old immediacy of priapic comedy with an excruciatingly contemporary sense of human absurdity. He might best be described as a uniquely modern Aristophanist with an existential horror of death...
...person of The Ginger Man, Sebastian Dangerfield, Donleavy in 1958 created one of the most outrageous scoundrels in contemporary fiction, a whoring, boozing young wastrel who sponges off his friends and beats his wife and girl friends. Author Donleavy then turns the moral universe on its head by making the reader love Dangerfield for his killer instinct, flamboyant charm, wit, flashing generosity-and above all for his wild, fierce, two-handed grab for every precious second of life. "More," "Now" and "Eeeeee!" are Dangerfield's key words...