Monday, January21, 1974 the observer 5 heatwave in the city and running into trouble in a desert. On next Sunday channel Little Big Screen 16 at 10:15 airs Two For the Roadas its late movie entree w ith A lbert Finney as an unfaithful husband to Audrey Hepburn in a catchy comedy-drama. strangler For late night viewing the best bets are Christopher George and wife Lynda Day I George’s A Beautiful Killing tomorrow night at ten th irty on ABC and Sitting Target despite pressureWednesday night on CBS at ten thirty, with Oliver Reed and Jill St. John in a somewhat art f errant: violent tale concerning a prison break. As w ith the season in general, crim e The Night They Raided Minskies female leads in dramatic series (the only Martin Luther King is saluted that same movies lead this week’s batch of films and premieres Saturday on 16 at eight. This one to date was “ Honey West” with Ann night over on ABC at ten thirty and Thur those that are offered are generally pretty hilarious burlesque comedy was filmed in Francis). For instance, there was once a sday Dick Cavett has Muhammed Ali and good. The lead off film is The Boston only three weeks and just sort of happened. script of the original “ Star Trek” that had Joe Frazier as guests. Strangler to be televised Sunday on ABC at Jason Robards, Jr., Bert Lahr (the famous the female crew members take over the ship seven-thirty. With Tony Curtis as the cowardly lion), and B ritt Ekland star in this because something happened to the men. ***** deranged plumber Albert DeSalvo (recently farce of the twenties and prohibition. It may The NBC censors canned the whole idea. As Sports and Specials: The Notre Dame killed in prison) and a mustachioed Henry bring back memories to some of Nickies last much as TV may voice approval, it will not Basketball Team will travel to a revenge- Fonda as his relentless pursuer, the film March 29. as yet bend to the whims of women’s lib. crazed UCLA and play next Saturday at ten chronicles the mass murders of over a ***** On Wednesday at seven Andy Griffith thirty in the evening. It w ill be telecast live decade ago of thirteen women. On the plays a cruel employer who more or less by TVS on 16. Jacques Cousteau has a whole, an excellent film that fortunately On the other side of the spectrum, the coerces his workers to join him in a special tonight at seven on 28 called “The omits a documentary style, this film does trashy and badly acted Valley of the Dolls motorcycle endurance test in Pray for the Flight of Penguins.” Jack Benny’s special have a few bad moments. It is interesting to makes its third go around Thursday of 22 at Wildcats. William Shatner, Robert Reed, Thursday at seven on 16 has George Burns, note that ABC delayed the showibg of this eight. Despite an excellent cast, this and Marjoe Gortner (in the “ Kojak” movie Redd Foxx, Johnny Carson, and Dinah film from Octomer due to public pressure.. Jacqueline Susann adaptation lacks any too) also star in this Deliverance-esque film . Shore as guests. And Miss Shore’s most A fter Fuzz! was shown, bums and hoboes semblance of intelligence, skill, and art. It An hour later on 16 Robert Foxworth stars celebrated beau Burt Reynolds guests on were torched in Miami, Detroit, Boston, and is a terrible movie. Of course, on TV it gets in another pilot entitled The Questor Tapes the Bob Hope special immediately following New York to name a few the following week. high ratings. A little higher on the bad about an android who searches for his Benny on 16. Dionne Warwicke and Dyan One of the subplots of Fuzz! had been that of movie scale (now having gone from lousy to creator. Created by “ Star Trek” overseer Cannon add the female spice to the show. setting fire to derelicts. Remembering that dull), Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark star in Gene Roddenberry and “ Star Trek” skyjackings followed in whatever city Rod Skullduggerytonight at eight on ABC. Its producer Gene Coon, it may seem like T rivia Questions: I have two questions Serling’s The Doomsday Flight was shown plot concerns the typical anthropological another “ Six M illion D ollar M an” but it does this week. The first was contributed by a years ago and that a few “ Hawaii Five-O” team’s efforts to find the missing link have the different premise that the hero of fellow trivia person in New Orleans who episodes have led to sniping incidents, ABC (typical for movies, that is) and who is the show is completely not human (which wishes to be called Ploz and the second is wisely decided to show another film . So it is attacked by the furry little fellows instead. would lend to irony if this show made its way one of mine. (1) What was the first spoken reasonable to assume that The Boston Skip it in favor of Rabbit,Runairing directly onto the fall schedule and Get Christie Love! line in The Wizard of Oz movie? (2) What Strangler w ill be edited for TV more than is opposite tonight on 16. James Caan stars as did not). were the last two lines in the film King norm al for a film to be. a man having marital problems (a mistress ***** Kong? ***** and at the same time his wife becoming pregnant! and turning to booze. It is not a The final network film of the week is the '8 uoj) s iu j v 1-raqoH Xq uaijods ,,‘iseaq Telly Savalas stars in the pilot for his happy film but it proves that Caan is one of “ ABC Suspense Movie” Heatwave Saturday aifl pamx )eqi Xineaq sew )i iuiq paqsiui) series “ Kojak” Friday on 22 at seven-thirty the better “ new” actors about. Also in the at seven thirty which has Ben Murphy and imp sauejd aip ),u s b m % „ (z ) Xipojoa in Kojak andthe Marcus-Nelson Murders cast are Carrie Snodgress (Diary of a Mad Bonnie Bedelia as a young couple escaping a Xq uanods „<,o)oj, s,ajaqM,, (I) :sjawsuv (originally titled The Marcus-Nelson Housewife), Jack Albertson (The Subject Murders only). Also based on a true story in Was Roses), Arthur Hill (“Owen Mar New York of 1963, this made-for-TV film shall” ), and Anjanette Comer as the excels as it engrosses the viewer when a boy mistress. It was filmed totally in Reading, confesses to the murders he did not actually Pa. commit. It enrages the viewer when Kojak ***** is frustrated by the police echelons in his joni mifchell tonight trying to save him. An excellent cast and Now we come to the new made-for-TV the city’s backdrop add force to the script. films. Tomorrow night Gelt Christie Love! It w ill be shown in one two and a half hour premieres with Tereasa Graves in the title a preview by fred graver segment having been edited from its role as a cop after a narcotics ring (yawn). original three hours. It is probably the best She is reared in the m a rtia l arts and beats Joni Mitchell. Ever sensitive to the un Joni Mitchell improves in musical and made-for-TV film I have ever seen as fa r as up her share of mobsters. A series pilot, I do derlying currents of life; ever reaching into lyrical sophistication. Her latest, “ Court plot, acting, and drama go. not give it much hope since TV frowns on the soul, a surgeon of the spirit; ever and Spark” has not been released as of yet, plucking with incredible honesty at the and I get this feeling that her record untouched strings; ever accounting for the company is holding out until the price in high price one pays in becoming real; crease is in effect (Ah! Capitalism!). linking in one sweeping image the deeper There are two elements in each album what pains and the elusive beauties of life; which consistently show freshness and capturing and exhibiting the new visions, vitality in Joni’s musical directions, her the new realizations. grasp of complex harmonies and her ability I am forever thankful that there are poets to produce beautiful and rich arrangements. and lyricists of Joni Mitchell’s caliber. On For The Roses, the treatments of happened in dallas? There are not many, but then mobs get to be “ Cold Blue Steel and Sweet F ire ” and cumbersome when engaged in delicacies. “ Judgment of The Moon and the Stars” are At the discovery of her songs, one finds not superb. a review by bill murphyonly extraordinary insights and stunning The subjects for her lyrics come from the images, but words which have been given people and scenes which are encountered in Sometimes a movie comes along in which short space of tim e as Oswald was supposed their deserved music. Through her music her life. They range from the sterility of the quality of the acting or costume design to have done. one experiences a reawakening of the record com pany personnel ‘ ‘For the Roses ’ ’ were really never meant to receive rave There are also many other unexplained essence of poetry: the music of the earth. to intensely personal portraits (“ Last Time reviews. Such a movie is Executive Action. facts which many of us were too young to She has authored many lyrics which are I Saw Richard” ) to unique visions of the The movie’s storyline is based on several even be concerned with in 1963. Why was easily recognized but not always connected world (“ Banquet” ). Every song is infused pieces of evidence which the Warren Jack Ruby allowed into police headquarters with her. “ I’ve looked at love from both with inescapable honesty, not the kind Commission wasn’t able to credibly refute. while Oswald was being transferred? Why sides now-both win and lose and still which reaches you with a harsh and was no record ever kept of Oswald’s in somehow-it’s love’s illusions I recall- I abrasive quality, but the kind which touches The immediate and basic plot is that a terrogation? Who would want to doctor a really don’t know love at a ll.” “ Both Sides something inside. The attack comes from group of businessmen arrange the picture showing Oswald in his Now” has been sung by everyone from within the fortress. assassination of President Kennedy for backyard holding the murder weapon ? Why Frank Sinatra to Judy Collins. “And I I came across a letter to Rolling Stone, several political-economic reasons. They did all the phones in Washington go dead dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes-flying published in March, 1973, which summed up arrange for a team of assassins to use just after the assassination? Why did a above in the sky-turning into butterflies- well the quality of Joni Mitchell’s lyrics. It triangulated riflefire to kill JFK in Dealey valuable code book disappear stopping the above our Nation.” “ Woodstock” , a sort of read: “One of Dostoevsky’s more Plaza in Dallas. This part of the story members of the Cabinet from contacting anthem for that lost venture into the garden, fascinating characters, Ivan in “ The comes from three pieces of evidence. First, Washington while on a plane to Japan? Why was electrified by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Brothers Karamozov” , has not a little in the original motorcade route was changed did Oswald declare publicly that he was Young. She wrote what is probably the most common with Joni. His very intellectuality by the local chamber of commerce to go being framed? How could two extra Secret beautiful and haunting chorus of any song and complexity became a hindrance to his through Dealey Plaza, possibly suggesting Service agents be present but unaccounted I’ve ever heard: “ And the seasons-they go peace of mind, as he tried to bridge the gap some big business pressure. Secondly, for in Dealey Plaza? round and'round-and the painted ponies go between feeling and logic, and he com there were eyewitness accounts suggesting The final statement of the film is possible up and down- we’re captured on a carousel plained ‘The stupider one is, the clearer one more than one gunman but the Warren the most amazing of all: of time-we can’t return, we can only look sees. Stupidity is artless and to the point. I report passed over these. They did so “ In the three year period which followed the behind from where we came-and goTound would give away all this super-stellar life, because a doctor stated that all the bullets murder of President Kennedy and Lee and ‘round and round-in the circle game.” all the ranks and honors, simply to be entered the president from the same angle. Harvey Oswald, eighteen material wit “ The Circle Game” is another song which transformed into a merchant’s wife, The third piece of evidence, however, is that nesses died - six by gunfire, three in motor has been recorded by many. weighing 18 stone, wetting candles before the same doctor later stated that there was accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut Only a few songs sung by Joni Mitchell icons.’ Joni describes the same wistful actually no way he could be sure of all the throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, have ever made “ the charts” (the curse of fantasy in “Barangrill” : The three bullets’ angles of entry because of the ex three from heart attacks and two from the music industry). Last summer “You waitresses live without an awareness of tensive damage of JFK’s wounds. natural causes. ” Turn Me On, I’m A Radio” made it wor life’s ironic complexities, and are “ none of This screenplay made me do something thwhile to bring a transistor to the beach.. the crazy you get from too much choice.” Several other factors enter here to give I’ve never done before.. I paid attention to Recently a song from her latest album, But Joni knows such bliss is illusion; “ You credence to this theory. The physical setup the credits to find out who the author was. A “ Raised on Robbery” , complete with An think she’s enlightened...it’s just a trick on of Dealey Plaza is such that the President’s man named Mark Lane is responsible for drews Sisters harmony at the opening and you, her mirrors and your w ill.” car would have passed underneath a tree this: all over South Bend that evening rousing rock and roll at the closing, was There are s till many good seats available, during the time Oswald would have fired, people were talking, people were thinking, getting a good deal of airplay on FM at the Student Union ticket office in the blocking his sight. It has also been proven people were doubting, people were affected. radio. Fiesta Ballroom of LaFortune and at the by firearm experts that no one man could If you want to be affected, I highly Fortunately, her albums have enjoyed A.C.C. Do yourself a favor. Go to the A.C.C. get off that many accurate shots in such a recommend Executive Action. greater success. With each new release, tonight and see Joni M itchell.