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BODY AND SOUL: A JAZZ AUTOBIOGRAPHY (RCA Victor). Coleman Hawkins, the granddaddy of the tenor sax, says he got his famous full tone from trying to play over seven other horns. He managed so well that he has outblown and outclassed most other saxophonists of the past three decades. These 16 selections (1927 to 1963) bring back not only the Hawk but McKinney's Cotton Pickers, the Mound City Blue Blowers, and the bands of Fletcher Henderson, Lionel Hampton and Red Allen as well.
CINEMA
HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE. The mayhem in this nimble comedy about a man who gets drunk and marries without malice aforethought is plotted by Jack Lemmon, whose fracturingly funny performance is smoothly supported by Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi, an import who makes hard-sell sex seem as classy as caviar.
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Director Vittorio De Sica animate a hilarious, fiercely moral old tearjerker about a Neapolitan pastrymaker who is hounded to the altar by his tart.
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. A shopgirl submits her first careless rapture to sober second thoughts in French Director Jacques Demy's sadly cynical fable, entirely set to music and done up in candy-box decor.
ZORBA THE GREEK. The hell, the horror and the sheer animal delight of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are served up larger than life by Director Michael Cacoyannis, with Anthony Quinn magnificently cast as the goatish old Greek who butts his way through a series of disasters.
GOLDFINGER. Another exuberant travesty of Ian Fleming's fiction has James Bond (Sean Connery) braving a mad Midas and some hilariously horrible sight gags.
WORLD WITHOUT SUN. In this fascinating, full-color documentary by Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The Silent World), seven oceanauts spend a month in a manfish bowl full fathom five below the surface.
SÉANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. Kim Stanley simultaneously masters the dark arts of bitchery, poignancy and deadly menace in a thriller about a demented psychic who conjures up a kidnaping plot.
TO LOVE. In naughty Stockholm, a lively young widow (Harriet Andersson) sheds her mourning garb and goes overboard with a rakish travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) who persuades her that lust is for the living.
MY FAIR LADY. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in G. B. Shaw's classic Cinderella story, set to music by Lerner and Loewe and newly dressed up for the occasion in Cecil Beaton's eye-popping finery.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE WORLD OF JOSEPHUS, by G. A. Williamson. The enigmatic life and times of the renegade Pharisee who went over to the Romans while they were conquering the Jews, then spent the full measure of his years in comfort, writing his own apologia and the only substantive account of two momentous centuries of Jewish history.
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A polished biography of the Paris-born princeling who, after Louis XIV felt that he was too frail for military service, defected and left France to become the Habsburgs' top general and Louis' nemesis.