Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, November 15 ANDROCLES AND THE LION (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Richard Rodgers puts to music George Bernard Shaw's tale of man and beast. Norman Wisdom plays Androcles, Geoffrey Holder the lion. And Caesar? Noel Coward, naturally...
...PYRAMID, by William Golding. In a seemingly simple tale about a bright lad who sacrifices everything to escape his low origins, Author Golding explores his favorite theme, which holds that original sin is an anthropological fact...
...under Mike Nichols' direction The Little Foxes didn't seem a tale of nouveau-riche aspirations. Actors used every remark, every glance, every flick of the wrist to overwhelm a rival. The battle, it turned out, was not so much for extra dollars as for some kind of recognition from the family. With the Hubbards you're either one up on everybody--or ignored...
...PYRAMID, by William Golding. In this ostensibly simple tale of a bright lad who sacrifices principles to scale the ladder of the British class system, Golding explores his favorite theme-that all men inherit the evil of their ancestry...
...that is what happens in an utterly mindless but totally endearing fairy tale, starring Omar Sharif as the prince and Sophia Loren as the girl. It was directed by Francesco Rosi, who is best known for his harrowing bullfight epic, The Moment of Truth. That anybody would bother these days to make so slender and fanciful a film is a miracle in itself; to do it with such a profusion of visual beauty is More than a Miracle. Which, by the way, is its title...