(4 of 5)
BULLITT. Steve McQueen plays it fast and supercool as a San Francisco police lieutenant on the hunt in this modish, violent thriller about current life styles in the underworld.
FUNNY GIRL is a loud, brassy musical biography of Fanny Brice that is tailor-made for the loud, brassy talents of Barbra Streisand.
COOGAN'S BLUFF. Director Don Siegal, hailed as a minor genius by French critics, proves that his reputation is no Gallic caprice with this tough film about an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who travels to New York to extradite a prisoner.
WEEKEND. Jean-Luc Godard excoriates the bourgeoisie in a savage satire that would be sharper were its Maoist political harangues not so dull.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. A flawed but massive and cumulatively fascinating chronicle links Europe's most famous weaponmaking family with Germany's persistent thrust toward world power.
TURPIN, by Stephen Jones. In this first novel, a series of unlikely events and uncertain conversations is transformed into a curiously engaging book by the author's gift for gentle satire.
THE BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF BALTHAZAR B., by J. P. Donleavy. The comic and sensual adventures of a rich and dreamy young man in Paris and Dublin. Donleavy at his best.
INSTANT REPLAY: THE GREEN BAY DIARY OF JERRY KRAMER. A succinct answer to that overasked question: What happened to the Packers this year? Simple. Vince Lombardi is no longer coach. The Grand Old Martinet of pro football raged, cussed, threatened and coaxed his athletes into winning every Sunday, and Kramer, his all-pro right guard, bears perceptive witness to his antics.
THE COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL (four volumes), meticulously edited and annotated by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. A remarkable record of the political and intellectual history of Western Europe during the '30s and '40s by the brilliant author of Animal Farm and 1984.
O'NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: he made his public share his private demon. In this excellent, painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life.
THE CAT'S PAJAMAS AND WITCH'S MILK, by Peter De Vries. In these two grotesquely humorous novellas, a gifted, discontented man works hard at being a failure, and a gentle, down-at-heart woman struggles with domestic disaster.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (2 last week)
2. A Small Town in Germany, Le Carre (1)
3. Preserve and Protect, Drury (3)
4. Airport, Hailey (4)
5. The Hurricane Years, Hawley (5)
6. The First Circle, Solzhenitsyn (6)
7. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (10)
8. And Other Stories, O'Hara (7)
9. The Senator, Pearson (9) 10. Couples, Updike
NONFICTION
1. Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock (5)
2. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (2)
3. Instant Replay, Kramer (4)
4. On Reflection, Hayes (9)
5. The Joys of Yiddish, Rosten
6. The Day Kennedy Was Shot, Bishop (1)
7. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (6)
8. Andrew Wyeth, Meryman