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WHERE THE GIRLS ARE (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). They surround Noel Harrison while he presides over an hour of music and comedy skits featuring Cher, the Association, Barbara McNair, the Byrds, Don Adams and Professor Irwin Corey.
CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). "What Happened to the Riot Report?" finds encouraging response at the local level, but discouragingly limited action at higher levels of government.
CBS REPORTS: "HUNGER IN AMERICA" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reporter David Culhane visits Virginia tenant farmers, Alabama sharecroppers, Arizona Indians and Texas Mexican-Americans to dramatize the plight of some 4,000,000 Americans who suffer from malnutrition.
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NET JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "My Name Is Children" studies the learning experiences of two children at the progressive Nova School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where students are exposed to a technologically advanced library, games that illustrate the techniques of modern propagandists, the audio-lingual study of foreign languages, and training in geometry and algebra from kindergarten on.
NET FESTIVAL. "The Life and Times of John Huston, Esquire" portrays Huston directing his recent film Reflections in a Golden Eye, acting with David Niven in 1967's Casino Royale, directing his first opera at Milan's La Scala Opera House, and relaxing in his Irish castle.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE EDUCATION OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. If nostalgia is defined as that which tells the past the way it really wasn't, then this musical version of Leo Rosten's story of an endearing and spunky immigrant tailor is nostalgic. Tom Bosley and Barbara Minkus are performers who make more lyrical music together than the score does.
THE SEVEN DESCENTS OF MYRTLE. When an impotent transvestite (Brian Bedford) who is dying of TB brings home the sometime prostitute (Estelle Parsons) whom he has just married to meet his half-breed half brother (Harry Guardino) just as the family farmhouse is threatened with flood, we have the classic elements of a Tennessee Williams play. Unhappily, the early Williams' drive seems to have succumbed to drift, and eloquence to colloquialisms. Despite uniformly excellent acting, Myrtle seems like a sleepwalking tour of a dusty attic.
JOE EGG. British Playwright Peter Nichols uses imagination and resourceful humor to traverse territory mined with pain. Albert Finney and Zena Walker deftly handle changes of pace and mood as the parents of a spastic child.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. In Tom Stoppard's gripping drama on inevitability, the Wittenberg Wander-kinder wander around Elsinore like two extras on the set to whom no roles have been assigned, and who cannot even decipher whether they are part of a comedy or a tragedy.
THE APA repertoire includes Pantagleize, a Belgian farce that wrestles with commitment in life; Exit the King, an existential drama that confronts the inexorability of death; The Cherry Orchard, a Chekhovian masterpiece on the relentlessness of change; and The Show Off, an American comedy about the maddening aspects of an all too recognizable human type.