Word: luciano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Fox presents Sellers in a garlicky farce that could barely make the late late show on Sicilian TV. Most of the actors race around the screen like men outrunning the sound of their own words. Sellers himself is cast as a sort of Unlucky Luciano who poses as a sort of Federico Foolini. He makes a film about some crooks smuggling $3,000,000 worth of gold bullion into Italy-and uses the movie project as a cover for some actual smuggling. The phony film is shown at his trial. It is intended to look absurdly awful...
...Robert Jones as the narrator, Alan Titus as Tancredi, and Evelyn Mandac as Clorinda all sang excellently, although some of Miss Mandac's entrances were a little breathy (possibly because she had to sing them while dying). The instrumentalists (string quartet, double bass and harpsichord) under the direction of Luciano Berio put life and warmth into a potentially very dull score...
...forming some vision of what shape the cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt. He wanted to be a Zanuck...
Daniel Seltzer, director of the Loeb, said yesterday that Monteverdi's "Il Combattimento di Tancredie Clorinda," and Luciano Berio's "Passagio" will coincide with the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth...
...flying a yellow banner emblazoned with a black "L" dropped a small nylon bag in the plaza of Villalba, Sicily. The bag was addressed to "Uncle Calo"-Calogero Vizzini, the millionaire chief of Italy's Mafia. In the bag was a gold foulard handkerchief belonging "to Gangster Lucky Luciano-a sign that Lucky wanted his old pals to play paisan to the Yanks. Four days later, when three U.S. tanks rolled into town, Vizzini climbed into one of them, clattered off to direct a joint Mafia-Allied operation, which pincered German and Italian troops in western Sicily. The Allies...