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...capacity crowds in Nairobi. On Uhuru Day, Dizzy serenaded President Jomo Kenyatta, 82, with a special composition titled Burning Spear (Kenyatta's nickname in pre-independence days). The piece, said Dizzy, included "touches of Indian, South American and African music and quite a few bars of the good ol' American blues." As it turned out, Dizzy was not the only showstopper. Big Daddy Amin, 48, eccentric President of neighboring Uganda, helicoptered in, and hefting his 270 Ibs. with surprising agility, joined the Masai tribal dancers and Kenyatta for some high kicks, to the delight of the celebrating crowds...
...Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back: Frank Sinatra (Reprise; $5.98). Though somewhat skimpy in length (Side 2 is barely 15 minutes long), this first album since Sinatra's supposed retirement abounds with all his old graces: the infallible sense of just how much is enough, the crafty building to one climactic moment per song, the right way with the right word, and the impeccable taste in material (notably in choosing Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns and four lilting ballads by Joe Raposo...
...REST OF US, though, don't have academics on the brain so much, or find it easy to get into the "good ol' Harvard law" stuff for too long. When six actors mince onto the stage in togas and garlands (underwear, basically) hooting "We are the faculty of Harvard law," the laughter isn't so automatic to us. And because we can't excuse the lack of smoothness as lightly as the law students, the scene spoofing the Watergate committee is funny only in bursts, as when a spacey Montoya ("Professor Howaya") addresses the witness chair between snoozes...
Hawkins (CBS) is James Stewart in the guise of an ol' country lawyer who likes to let on that "moral dilemmas give me gas." Along with his sidekick and cousin, nicely played by Strother Martin, he squared off in earlier episodes against big-city decadence (the season opener featured a gay apartment house, an alcoholic actress and an attempted rape of a Lolita-like minor). But in next month's installment the pair will really get to shuck the corn. They will return to Jim my's home town in West Virginia to defend a man accused...
...able to a) sleep until noon, b) miss yet another Harvard soccer shutout loss in a year full of them, c) drink Rolling Rock beer all afternoon and, last but not least, d) watch Pat McInally catch 26 passes two times for each catch, thanks to those good ol' ABC instant replays...