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...HOPE DESERT CLASSIC GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Among the pros: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Billy Casper. Among the celebrities: Ray Bolger, Joey Bishop, James Garner, Andy Williams, Harry James. The place: Bermuda Dunes Country Club, Palm Springs, Calif. (Finals at La Quinta Country Club will be broadcast Sunday...
...holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger, is a dub of a prizefighter, a would-be champion with a chimpanzee brain...
...obvious that her husband's emotional aridity has left her sexually parched. "Oh, I was thirsty," she says, as she drains a glass of water in some seductive byplay with Brother Lenny. Soon Lenny is brushing her face with kisses. "She's wide open," observes Brother Joey, taking over the love play on sofa and floor. All this happens in front of Teddy, who inexplicably makes no gesture of protest. He still maintains his deadpan cool when his father and brothers propose that Ruth stay on and earn her keep by working for them as a part-time...
...play's ultimate ambiguity, which centers on the question of who uses whom in the man-woman relationship, can never be resolved. At first glance, Ruth seems exploited. The old man plans to use her for cooking and cleaning up, Lenny for his stable of tarts, and Joey for lovemaking. But after the agreement, the old man is invaded by sheer panic: "She'll use us, she'll make use of us, I can tell you! I can smell it!" Yet will she? Vivien Merchant ends her evocatively feminine performance with the elusive hint of a smile...
...Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Louis and Joey Giardello...