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Page 20 The Lincoln Star Friday, Oscar winners star Hollv-u-ood (UPli Three Jose Ferrer, costar in Oscar winners, Olivia the Iron Mask DeHavilland. Rex Harrison and MATINESSON A SATURDAY 'Gibbsville' rolls; so might John O'Hara and mav even run for the Dresidencv of willy-nilly. kl. 201 SUNDAY All SEATS S1.00 SHOWS AT; MGM wasNT' PiUlTRlPP EASTMAHCOIOR (c) Chicago Sun-Timts Even if John manage to roll over in his grave, the rest of us who have read, respected and enjoyed his short stories of life in mythical Gibbsville, should do the decent thing and roll the television dial away from NBC. In this resurrected version of Gibbsville, any resemblance to sardonic, involved and insightful short stories was undoubtedly a slip and will be remedied in future episodes.

you may remember, was one of two programs was the other) that NBC thought wiser not to air at the beginning of the season. There were problems with writing the script apparently. There are still problems with writing, but NBC has had to bandage its wounded schedule with something and so into the breach. This is probably a fine half-hour show or even a great 15-minute show but it has been stretched with those dajdime soap opera pauses and slow speech patterns into a seemingly endless hour, Walter Pidgeon, who portrays an old playwright, certainly is a candidate for president of the Slow Talkers of America in this one. Gig Young, who portrays a boozy reporter on the Gibbsville Courier, is a candidate for recording secretary and may even run for the presidency of the Slurred Slow Talkers of America.

The first plot and, in the tradition, this show will be continued weekly concerns a factory explosion inside Gibbsville City Limits in which a researcher is killed. The venal cops and firemen try to cover up the explosion (itself an hilarious exercise in neo-realism) but the probing reporters find out the truth. Where used a scalpel to reveal what lay beneath the thin skins of small town Americans of his era with their social prejudices and social pressures David production goes at revelations with a meat ax, slashing here and there. willy-nilly. There is one touching scene sandwiched into all this junk; quiet death while his wfe him to let her go with him to 75 seconds, we get the real OHara, for the remaining 58 minutes and 45 seconds (less commercials) we get Hollywood hack prose.

Before his stage death, tells a voung man; is much harder for a writer to handle than What a rebef that must be for Larry Brody and the other writers wiw have labored on this dog. They need not worry about success here. 'Gone With the Wind' sets record DOORS OPEH AT 7:00 PLAYS TOR ONE WEEK ONLY SHOWS AT: 7:30 9:25 475-5969 rclNEMA 2qfN.J3fh' For some guys the wans never over! CLIFF ROBERTSGN.ERNEST BORGNINE ftVCO PCTUHfS RELEASE New York (AP) With the drew a record prime-time television audience last week, propelling NBC to the top ratings spot for the week ending Sunday, Nov. 7, according to A. C.

Nielsen figures. It was the first week in the seven-week-old season that ABC, which was second, lost the ratings race. The weekly averages cover only the first half of the epic film, which was shown Sunday and Monday nights. It was seen in nearly 34 million homes, topping the previous record set in 1970 by the Bob Hope Christmas special on NBC. The ratings service said NBC fODAY! After School Evening p.m.

SATURDAY SUNDAY PUBIIC SESSIONS; ENDS TUESDAY DOORS OPEN AT 7:00 TODAY MATINEES ON SATURDAY SUNDAY TONIGHT: 7:15 9:15 A JOYRIDE WAIT 4 had a 20 8 rating for the week, compared with 19 9 for ABC and 19.0 for CBS. ABC had sought to blunt the expected NBC triumph by airing the film, Hours at but it attracted viewers in only 9.8 million homes Sunday night. The top 10 shows and their ratings were, in order, with the NBC, 47.6; CBS, 34.7; ABC. 33.7; CBS, 29; ABC, 28.4; CBS, 27.3; ABC. 27; Night ABC.

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