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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:14 p.m.). John Huston's Asphalt Jungle, a classic tale of an attempted jewel robbery, starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Sam Jaffe...
...outraged at your article likening Balanchine's Ballet to a jewel and comparing it to the Russian Ballet or the Royal Ballet. Balanchine's product is neither beautiful nor profound. It certainly is pathetic that a theatrical product that is morbid and depressing should open our cultural center and almost monopolize it as far as ballet is concerned...
Black Sabbath is a three-part demonthology. The Drop of Water tells what happens to a nurse who steals a jewel from a corpse: she is hounded to her doom by a fiendish faucet. The Telephone tells the story of a girl who gets a phone call from a boy friend she sent to the gallows. "I want that beautiful body of yours," he murmurs lustfully, and later he comes to get it. Terrified, she stabs him to death with a kitchen knife, but an instant later the phone rings, and when she answers it the voice of the dead...
...where Balanchine has lived and worked for the past 30 years, its locales have been dingy, gloomy, unfriendly or cramped. But when Balanchine's New York City Ballet opened its spring season in the crystal splendor of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center last week, the jewel was at last in a proper setting. The new theater is magnificent, and so was the ballet...
...large globe, then absentmindedly leans on it to be sent spinning to the floor. As a twittery, accident-prone French detective, Sellers trips over carpets, steps into a Stradivarius, and pratfalls through love scenes with his wife, never suspecting that she is the mysterious female accomplice of the jewel thief that he wants to nab. Some of Sellers' sight gags are funny, but not funny enough to keep this over-waxed comedy from schussing steadily downhill at the recherche Italian ski resort where Panther's high-priced actors search in vain for a lift...