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Show WEEKLY 1 AND AMUSEMENTS GUIDE MONI Academy Awards Will Be Televised The 41st awards program of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will betelecast worldwide for the first time, announced Academy President Gregory Peck The telecast will go live to Mexico and Canada in addition to being seen live and in color in the United States, and will also go to 30 other countries by means of color video-tape, color film and black-and-white kinescopes, depending on the capability or preference of tie country receiv or film will be de hours after the awards program is over and will be available for prime-time broadcast Channel 4 will air the Academy Awards live and in color from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Music Center Monday 8pm Of the 20 performers nominated for Academy Awara. this year, eight have previously been nominated and four of these are past winners: Katharin (Best Actress Patricia Neal (Best 3), Joanne ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of this year’s “Academy Awards” presentation, to be televised in color by Channel 4, Mondgy, April 14 at 8 p.m. to conclusion, will be the awarding of the famed gold statuette for The Best Picture of the Year, Shown here are scenes from the five nominees. Top, left to right— Mark Lester in “Oliver!,’”’ Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in “The Lion in Winter,” Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in “Romeo and Juliet.” Bottom, left to right—Joanne Woodward and James Olson in “Rachel, Rachel” and Barora Streisand in “Funny Girl.” Woodward (Best Actress i957) and Estelle Parsons (Best Supporting Actress 1967). Other former nominees are Alan Ark(Continued on Page 9) Polynesia-Too Much of AGoodThing Polynesia, considered throughout its 200-year history as a true paradise on earth, is, according to one expert on the exotic South Sea isles, like a huge desert. The expert is Stanton Waterman who, with his entire family, sepnt a year in this remote Shangri-La. Watermans’ experiences there are the sub- ject of the National Geographic Society color al “Polyne sian venture,” to be seen Saturday at 5 30 p.m, on Channel 5. The broadcast recounts the Watermans’ odyssey or Tahiti, Bora Bora, Raiata and Tabaa Islands where {! lived and worked in a setting far removed from the American suburban life to which they are accus tomed. “For the Western man, Pelynesia is too much of a N.J., family on exotic South Pac Geographic Society color special «Polynesian Adventure,” to be seen Saturday at 5:30 The broadcast is a firsthand ‘account of a year-long odyssey to French Polynesia, showing bow the Watermanslived and worked in close harmony with Ratives. (National Geographic Society Photo) thing ays Waterman, good a vet eran film maker, professional diver, explorer, marine b“logy expert and le turer who has traveledto virually all parts of (Continued on Page 9) THE MONKEES — (left to right) Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Peter Tork — cut up during their first special, a musical happening entitled “33'4 Revolutions Per Monkey” to be colorcast on Channel 2, Monday at 9 p.m, |