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MY WORLD (RCA Victor). "Tennessee Playboy" Eddie Arnold, after 20 years of hit making, is still climbing the pop charts (Make the World Go Away; What's He Doin' in My World). His mellifluous, high tenor voice is as sweet as ever, but the Nashville Sound is beginning to take on the airs of the Melachrino Strings.
CINEMA
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. In Director David Lean's literate, magnificently visualized version of Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller, the romance of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) dominates a vast canvas of war and social upheaval.
OHAYO. The easy rhythm of middle-class existence in suburban Tokyo is the plot and soul of a gentle family comedy by the late Yasujiro Ozu, Japan's most celebrated film poet.
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.
Richard Burton, at his very best, gets sturdy opposition from Oskar Werner in a skillful version of the John le Carré thriller about a British Intelligence man who poses as a defector to East Germany.
THUNDERBALL. The slightly faded James Bond formula is brightened by spectacular underwater effects, a few splashy conquests, and Sean Connery, who by now delivers his Jimcracks martini-dry.
VIVA MARIA! Some camera magic by French Cinematographer Henri Decae helps Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot inflame the peasantry in Louis Malle's higgledy-piggledy farce about a pair of strip queens involved in a Central American revolution.
REPULSION. The nightmare deeds of a fragile blonde psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) are shown in excruciating detail by a master of the macabre, Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water).
DARLING. This jet-set satire with trimmings of pathos is tailor-made for Julie Christie's stylish performance as the amoral jade who sleeps her way from pad to palazzo.
KING RAT. A shrewd G.I. con man (George Segal) exploits his buddies for fun and profit in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's harsh, searching drama about survival of the fittest in a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
THE LEATHER BOYS. Rita Tushingham, as a teen-aged trollop who nearly loses her restless young husband to his motorcycling mate, in a freewheeling portrait of British youth.
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. A betrayed wife (Giulietta Masina) reviews her life in lovely full-color fantasies staged by Director Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), the Barnum of the avantgarde.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE INNOCENT EYE, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Robert Flaherty is described in this admirable biography as the archetype of the artist-adventurer: a steel-hewed Irishman who spent the first half of his life exploring the Arctic, a Blake-like visionary who spent the second half inventing the documentary film and producing its early masterworks—Nanook of the North, Moana, Louisiana Story.
IN COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. In an effort to expand the dimensions of journalism by exploring the subsurface of a vicious and senseless murder, Novelist Capote has permanently enriched and amplified the reporter's craft.