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Wednesday, December 14 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Visiting Acapulco during Mexico's film festival, Bob runs into a star shower that includes Michael Caine, Cantinflas, Dolores Del Rio, Glenn Ford, Gina Lollobrigida, Lynn Redgrave, James Mason and Rita Tushingham. ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Arthur Kennedy narrates "The Brave Rifles," a documentary celebrating the 22nd anniversary of World War II's harrowing Battle of the Bulge...
...paving the way for that achievement, Rockefeller served as financier, architect and mason of a two-party system more promising than any in the South. For if Republican successes across the nation last month constituted a renascence for the G.O.P., the party's triumph in Arkansas was simply a nascency. And it was based squarely on the enlightened issues that Democratic politics had evaded for decades in Dixie. While his opponent, James ("Justice Jim") Johnson, 42, inveighed against the "other" Johnson's Great Society, Rockefeller talked about education, roads, governmental reform and accelerated economic progress for Arkansas...
...Meredith's (Charlott Rampling) noisy lovemaking, the girls blubbered; when Georgy was seduced by Meredith's insatiable husband Jos (Alan Bates), the girls wept triumphantly; and they kept it up while Georgy in herited Meredith's unwanted baby and rode away with a millionaire husband of her own (James Mason). As one of them explained, on leaving the theater, it's all so "true-to-life, with a happy ending...
Charlotte Rampling is appropriately bitchy, brittle, and beautiful as the roommate; and Alan Bates, Georgy's initiator, gives the best performance in the film. As usual, James Mason is the ineffectual, lecherous old man, a familiar role for him these days and one he has never filled with distinction...
...seem to regard their loss as any great tragedy. He wrote Billy Budd with a Princeton colleague, Louis Coxe. In 1949, it was produced at an uptown off-Broadway theatre. Two years later a second version opened on Broadway to mixed reviews. The play promptly became a cause. John Mason Brown's notice in the Saturday Review reflected the tone of its admirers: "Those who did not see Billy Budd did their bit to discourage the theatre from doing its best. They turned their backs on courage and distinction...