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Sunday, August 16 SPORTS SPECTACULAR FROM LONDON (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The Royal International Horse Show.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A day in the life of Rhodes Scholar Winston J. Churchill Jr. (no kin) from North Wales, Pa., one of the many students who have studied, over the years, at Oxford University under the scholarship program set up before his death in 1902 by the South African financier-statesman Cecil Rhodes. Repeat.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The Great Lovers is a documentary largely composed of scenes from old movies starring Hollywood's great gentlemen of passion from Francis X. Bushman to Marlon Brando. Repeat.
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Borrowing perhaps from Hamlet, this segment has a TV-show-within-a-TV-show, featuring a rare acting appearance by E.S.,W.S.'s Executive Producer David Susskind, who is typecast as a TV panel moderator. It apparently failed, however, to catch the conscience of King David—he and CBS have since abandoned the entire series. Repeat.
THE RISE OF KHRUSHCHEV (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC's 1963 White Paper on Nikita-the-Bold's ascent to the throne left vacant by Stalin. Chet-the-Huntley narrates. Repeat.
THEATER
The heat of summer withers marginal plays, and the survivors are either of proven merit or exceptional freshness. Best of the survivors:
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES but the thorns draw blood in this perceptive play by Frank Gilroy about people who live within the closeness of a family without being close.
FUNNY GIRL shines in the refracted light of a brilliant new star, Barbra Streisand, who colors every song and caps her clowning with an indelible stage presence.
HIGH SPIRITS is notable for a slapstick seance conducted by mad Bea Lillie, and for the performance of impish Tammy Grimes, who as a spirit brought back to haunt her husband is about as ghostly as a rainbow.
ANY WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis plays a kept doll with an unkempt sense of humor that leads to precious little sex but lots of fun.
HELLO, DOLLY! is a twinkle-toed musical, thanks to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion's dancers and Resourceful Matchmaker Carol Channing.
DYLAN. Alec Guinness probes the special hell in which Dylan Thomas found himself. His brilliant performance is moody, taut with rage and sometimes bright with humor.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A pair of newlyweds clamber five flights to a Manhattan flat to coo, tiff and tousle in a variety of dress and undress. Playwright Neil Simon is a laugh merchant who never runs out of lines.
CINEMA
CARTOUCHE. In Director Philippe de Broca's carefree parody of a period saga, Jean-Paul Belmondo is the Gallic, sword-swinging Robin Hood who robs from the rich, gives to the poor, and keeps Claudia Cardinale for himself.
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Fighting off mad scientists, crocodiles and poisoned darts, Belmondo strikes again in Director de Broca's faster—and even funnier—spoof of Hollywood action melodramas.
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. At a sunny resort for shady people, Director John Huston guides Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner through some oddly exciting sessions of group therapy devised by Playwright Tennessee Williams.