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DIONNE WARWICK SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Burt Bacharach will be there; so will George Kirby, Glen Campbell and The Creedence Clearwater Revival. The occasion is Dionne's very first special...
...offered a tempting variety of parties, seminars and trips. In July, 55 club members jetted to Acapulco for a weekend spree of sun and sea. Later in the month, 500 members frolicked as guests of the bank at a barbecue and beer bust. There was a reception for Singer Glen Campbell before his Houston concert and a private premiere showing of John Wayne's new movie, True Grit. Recognizing that club members are affluent-their average salary is more than $10,000 a year-merchants have been vying for their patronage with tempting discounts. One restaurant gives members...
...them light out for In dian territory in pursuit of the evil Tom Chaney, her dad's murderer, who is riding with the dreadful Ned Pepper gang. Mattie and Rooster are joined by La Boeuf (Glen Campbell). That makes five eyes altogether, and woe to the criminal that tries to evade them. The dastardly Chaney can contrive to shoot Rooster and bash in La Boeuf's head and trap Mattie in a rattlesnake pit. But doom hangs over him. What devil, after all, could even hope to best good Christians who possess true grit-the 19th century version...
...printed page, the studiously naive dialogue contributed to an authentic period piece. Spoken onscreen, such lines as "I will not bandy words with a drunkard" tend to clutter the air like gnats. Kim Darby seems too far past puberty to be the original Mattie, and Glen Campbell proves the ideal cowboy to chase a wooden Indian. Even so, a conspiracy is afoot to make the picture succeed. Director Henry Hathaway, 71, knits the yarn into a perfect size 46 extra long for Wayne...
...Starting this Saturday, he will host his own one-hour series on ABC-TV, The Johnny Cash Show. An easygoing show, taped before a live audience at the Opry House in Nashville, Tenn., it has a guest list that is casually shot through with such names as Bob Dylan, Glen Campbell, Mason Williams, Roy Orbison, the Cowsills, the Monkees, Buffy Sainte-Marie. There are no "Johnny Cash Dancers," no fleshy production numbers. ("I don't go in a lot for that flashy stuff.") Nothing but a minimum of talk and then down to the substance of Johnny Cash...