Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants...
...last week everybody seemed willing to pronounce Alcindor "unstoppable" and "the best college center in history"-everybody, that is, except his own coach, John Wooden. "Lew has a long way to go," said Wooden. "He may be as agile as Wilt Chamberlain was at this stage in his career, but he still isn't as agile as Bill Russell." Adds Assistant Willie Naulls, who played with Russell on last year's pro champion Boston Celtics: "Lew is just a boy. He's barely 19, still growing and far from maturity...
...from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi. The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull. Producer Henry Jaffe recalls: "We'd put a performer on a bleak stage in front of a dirty curtain and say, 'Perform!' " Perform they did, often superbly, but Bell began to feel its image had become ossified. This season, the program has shucked its shawl and gone off in search of adventure -and in the process become one of the best...
Director John Hirsch has imposed a death-march pace on the drama, though he has a gift for composing some tableaux that unfold with the dreamy slow-motion grace of an underwater ballet. Smoldering with anger and frustration, Gloria Foster commands the stage but cannot control her part. Her vocal range tends to be loud, louder, loudest, and she has yet to learn that the seat of passion is not the larynx...