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...hero, John Morley (Zero Mostel) is, by self-definition, "a flaming faggot." He is also a zany, successful author who has never paid his income tax. The I.R.S. has ferreted out his secret, and Morley has been forced to throw himself on the mercy of tax advisers. His chief consultant, Irving Spaatz (Jules Munshin), is a legal weasel of wizardry inventiveness. Munshin plays the role in droll fashion and is astonishingly agile at working his way through a verbal tax maze of inflated gibberish that includes explanations of convertible debentures, spinoffs, and sale-leaseback arrangements...
LUTHER (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). John Osborne's 1961 drama of the 16th century monk who started the Reformation comes to TV, starring Robert Shaw as Martin Luther, Robert Morley as the Pope whom he opposed...
...rest of the program was more conventional--some Tompkins and Morley, sounding boxy and if it needed a chorus one quarter the size of the tour group, some incongrously Western-sounding "Asian" songs, and choruses from La Reine Indigo, by Johann Strauss, Jr. The saving grace of these choruses were some absurdly ornate soprano solos, masterfully executed by Carlotta Wilsen. Like the other successful pieces on the program, the Strauss was impressive primarily for its animation and coherence; when Asian Tour 1967 achieves these qualities more consistently it will be a fine performing group...
...NEWS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Morley Safer's Viet Nam," a look at the land's many faces: the clamor of Saigon and the desolate boondocks; privileged ladies sipping tea with Madame Ky and women toiling in the paddyfields; men fighting in the jungle, girls bathing at the beach...
...Westmoreland on Viet Nam." Correspondents Charles Collingwood and Morley Safer interview U.S. General William C. Westmoreland at his headquarters in Saigon...