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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marlon Brando and David Niven use their considerable charm to con money from wealthy women like Shirley Jones in Bedtime Story...
...position in the world." Moynihan, to be sure, is not universally admired, nor are his ideas. Some critics, like the Rev. Henry Browne, a Catholic priest on Manhattan's upper West Side, accuse him of practicing "Ouija-board sociology," while a friend from the London days, Broadcaster Paul Niven, notes that he has a "natural instinct for self-publicity." Yet few have articulated the urban crisis so well, and few have put forth so many thoughtful, or at least ingenious, remedies. Among the other top urbanologists...
CASINO ROYALE. David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettit and Ursula Andress are all Bonds of one sort or another in this overblown 007 spoof with more herds than scenes...
CASINO ROYALE. Several fine performances (David Niven, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr), five directors (including John Huston), $12 million and the rights to one of Ian Fleming's best James Bond novels have not prevented the movie from over-spilling into incoherent vaudeville...
With so many egos-including five directors-competing for attention, the picture soon degenerates into an incoherent and vulgar vaudeville. Each actor frantically does his bit and then gets offstage to make room for the jugglers. Niven comes off best because his stylish acting floats far above the script's witless, single-entendre standard: "Beauty is only skin-deep. How about some skin diving?" Allen provides an adroit parody of paranoia, as when he objects to going before a firing squad because he has "a low threshold of death...