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...Couple is an evening of group hysteria, induced by Playwright Neil ("Doc") Simon, Director Mike Nichols and two greatly gifted actors of atrabilious hilarity, Walter Matthau and Art Carney. The only worry they leave in a playgoer's head is how to catch his breath between laughs...
...Matthau and Carney are middle-aged newly de-weds. Matthau, a sportswriter, has been deserted and divorced; Carney, a newswriter, is booted out by his wife just as the play begins. Matthau invites Carney to share his lonely eight-room apartment. "What can I do here?" asks Carney. "You can take my wife's initials off the towels," replies Matthau with morose glee...
...begin living an uproarious travesty of a bad marriage, an astutely characterized study in incompatability. Matthau is a gruff, irresponsible slob, a sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder...
PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Walter Matthau stars in the story of Georgia Governor John Slaton, who in 1915 dared commute a controversial death sentence...
...Tony were "making out with" not so long ago, even lewdly ogles the women in a plush beauty salon. While Tony skitters about, fighting the impulse to take his best friend in his arms and kiss him, Charlie wards off the advances of Pat Boone (sacred love) and Walter Matthau (profane). By the last reel, he/she/it has turned up in a more felicitous incarnation. Too late, though. Public apathy is apt to send Charlie off to the boneyard reserved for classic Hollywood fumbles...