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...surprise, Mendel escapes by courting a deeply disturbed woman. When he marries her and takes on fresh responsibilities, he finds himself free. Given the same sort of opportunity, Meyer remains trapped. He falls in love with Lena, a middle-aged sculptor, but when the time comes to declare himself, he retreats into his customary caution-waiting, watching, chary before choice. Then at last Lena does him a favor-she dies. At her funeral, Meyer surveys her friends. "Terrible people," he tells himself later. "Terrible. I should never have gotten involved." He never will again...
...Games is ostensibly the case history of a mother complex. The man who has it (Keve Hjelm), a wealthy young Swede, revisits the house he grew up in and invites a moral conflict between the memory of his profligate mother (Ingrid Thulin) and the love of his innocent fiancee (Lena Brundin). In a series of what might be called flesh-backs, the man-as-boy (Jorgen Lindstrom) wanders in memory through a child's garden of sexual reverses. Among the obscene scenes: his mother summoning a crowd of drunken guests into her bedroom and letting them watch while...
...Ellington, 66, in the lyrics for his swinging Genesis, In the Beginning God. Putting on the "personal statement" in his Concert of Sacred Music with the full band in Manhattan's 157-year-old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Duke made a joyful noise indeed. So did torchy Lena Horne, who sang an exquisite Christmas Surprise, the Ellington song about the birth of Christ. In doing hip hymns for the concert, which CBS will televise Jan. 16, the Duke explained, "You have to believe very strongly yourself or else it doesn't work. The pulpit is like...
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Lena Horne, Opera Stars Regina Resnik and Robert Merrill, Folk Singers Peter, Paul and Mary. Color...
...BEST OF COLE PORTER (MGM) is one of a seven-disk series that includes "the very best of" Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Kern, Romberg, Lerner and Loewe, and Berlin. The records have too many humdrum instrumental numbers, but occasionally are brightened by the voices of singers worth listening for: Lena Home, Judy Garland, Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Helen Traubel, Kate Smith and Maurice Chevalier. The Porter, for instance, has Louis Armstrong (You're the Top), Eartha Kitt (Always True to You in My Fashion) and Margaret Whiting (Just One of Those Things...