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Call Me is the story of a trio of ill-adjusted young people who emerge as a triangle-a Columbia graduate student (Robert Duvall), his undergraduate Negro apartment-mate (Alvin Ailey), and a questing girl (Joan Hackett). It comes quickly to life in scenes that reveal the Negro badly bruised with race resentments, the girl rather sophomorically looking for an honest man, and the graduate student thinking that he is one in his bellowingly individualistic, care fully tailored misfit way. Their talk can be caustic, their clashes sharp, their belligerent defenselessness vivid. The play's best qualities...
Open End (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* Network viewers' first look at a shortened version of David Susskind's spontaneous speakeasies, with Joey Bishop, George Burns, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Hackett and Groucho Marx trying to get a word...
...Jack Paar Show (NBC, 11:15 p.m.1 a.m.). The regulars joined by Buddy Hackett, Florence Henderson, Body Goodman and Arthur Treacher. Still some of the liveliest TV available, particularly in this summer of reruns and cheap fill...
...directors usually make up for the lack of performing skill by choosing off-beat plays; and this summer was no exception. The company kicked off with Goodrich & Hackett's The Great Big Doorstep, and followed it with two of Eugene Ionesco's avant-garde one-acters: The Lesson; and Jack, or the Submission. Neither of the last two is in a class with Ionesco's The Chairs; but both are intriguing if too drawn out dramatizations of his thesis that people just cannot communicate sufficiently through language. Jack was more imaginatively staged here than the New York production last year...
...program note, The Great Big Doorstep, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is referred to as "a wholesome antidote to the heavy exposure of Deep South Depravity to which readers and playgoers were already being subjected." The fallacy in this statement is that, while depravity can at least cause a warm tingling sensation up and down your groin, the only emotion induced by prolonged exposure to innocuousness is sheer boredom...