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EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Animated versions of five short plays are the focal point of a program on the work of English Playwright Harold Pinter. Voices for "The Pinter People" are done by Donald Pleasence, Pinter, his wife Vivien Merchant, Richard Briers, Kathleen Harrison and Dandy Nichols...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ship of Fools (1965). Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner and George Segal star in the motion-picture adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's best-selling 1962 novel. Repeat...
...reported that a group of Negroes were picketing the revival of Gone With the Wind. Some were carrying signs protesting Hattie McDaniel's stereotyped portrayal of a colored nanny. Without any sense of contradiction, others were demanding that Hattie be given top billing alongside Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The only "safe formula" to avoid racial offense, Cooke discovered, was adopted by a New York progressive school, which staged The Merchant of Venice. "Every boy or girl in the cast was Jewish. Except Shylock. His real name was Cynthia Adams...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ship of Fools (1965) with Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner and George Segal...
...Vivien Leigh as Scarlett is not quite what Margaret Mitchell had in mind. The book opens with the line, "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful." This Scarlett is. So beautiful that every time she has a close-up we are in danger of forgetting what the movie is about. Rarely has an actress invested her beauty with so much variety and expressiveness. Miss Leigh's performance starts in her face and works outward, refusing to compromise Scarlett's bitch-coldness with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath...