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...does sing well, though in a less operatic role, is Phillip Bosco as Bolingbroke. Bosco brings to the part intelligence, poise, and a visage full of character. He has a sonorous voice and knows how to use it, having played Shakespeare before (as Basehart has not). Only occasionally does he push his voice beyond its proper limit...
...disperse anybody who comes up to me and says, 'You are here because of who you are and not because of your talent.' " He also disperses a shower of eccentricities. He makes his own breakfast, tossing two bananas, three eggs, half a pint of milk and some Bosco into a Waring Blendor. He flies kites. He wears cowboy boots with his tuxedo. He drives a silver 390-h.p. Facel-Vega sports car. "I've had beers in every kind of bar in this country." he drawls, "and I've raced with every kind of hood...
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Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...
...Folksinging is propaganda. It's a mistake, though, to say that protest songs are limited merely to unions and politics. For example, songs of unrequited love are really protests against unrequition. Or the child who sings "I hate Bosco, it's bad for you and me' is displaying a form of juvenile protest. I wish people could think of protest songs as covering the whole range of human experience...