Show Business: Top of the Week

In one of TV's more ambitious weeks this season. Lee J. Cobb's performance in I, Don Quixote (see below) was one of several striking performances. Others:

¶ 1) Julie Harris as Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (NBC). In the semi-modern classic that for years was regarded as a ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris—kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious—could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could...

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