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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris in Requiem for a Heavyweight, the story of a prizefighter who is forced to give up the only trade he knows...
...reach out and right things for her. Now, as always, it is the little girl against the big odds-in Skyscraper she is against the builders who destroy cities; in the past she has opposed such formidable enemies as the police (Shot in the Dark), the boxing profession (Requiem for a Heavyweight) and all of England (as Joan of Arc in The Lark). And now, as always, she beats the odds in her own special way, winning even when she loses-in The Lark she lost her life but won immortality; in Skyscraper she loses her brownstone but walks...
...BERLIOZ: REQUIEM (2 LPs; Columbia). This colossus of music honored the heroic dead of the July 1830 revolution. Inspired by St. Peter's in Rome, Berlioz wanted to match the grandeur of its architecture in sound. He nearly does so in this performance conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The Philadelphia Orchestra, augmented by extra horns, winds and percussion, and the Temple University Choirs of 250 voices are welded into an instrument of blockbusting power and variety: four brass bands blaze the summons to the Last Judgment, and the woodwinds whisper as Tenor Cesare Valletti sings the poetic Sanctus...
...Catholic teaching, suicide is a mortal sin; according to canon law, a Requiem Mass may not be said for someone who takes his own life. Presumably because LaPorte lived long enough to regret his action, the church allowed a memorial Mass, which took place in his home town of Tupper Lake, N.Y. His remains were buried in consecrated ground...
...character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...