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...family's elder son, Danny, and he is bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note, but, like the others, has now given up on himself...
...Horror of Party Beach, billed as "the first horror monster musical," gets off to a swingin' start with a bunch of teen-agers engaged in puberty rites at the shore. But man, dig that cat out there on the jetty. He's real cool. Looks like a stalk of asparagus with an artichoke heart for a head. Marinated by radioactive waste, maybe. And there's more where he came from. Crazy? Let's dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When a trio known as the Del-Aires isn't pushing that Big Beat, the big beasts claim...
...beach resembles Seal Rock in mating season. Frankie Avalon, with his pack of gold-necklaced surf jockeys, and Annette Funicello, with her bevy of busty beach bunnies are-in the words of one of their tribal hymns-"just asurfin' all day and swingin' all night." But danger lurks in the dunes: a marauding band of post-Brando wild ones roars up on a midnight raid. Quinquagenarian Cummings, with precious little help from Frankie, sends them yelping off with their motorcycles tucked between their legs...
...Swingin' with Humes (Helen Humes; Contemporary). A singer with an infinitely stretchable, rubber-lined beat and a feel for a smoothly sculptured phrase bounces in high good humor through some dark laments: When Day Is Done, Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Solitude...
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Guests Woody Herman, Vaughn Monroe, Freddie Martin and Jo Stafford, Hubbell Robinson's tiring series tries to acquire some zip with The Swingin' Singin' Years. Color...