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Lili, A Solemn Music by Disciple Virgil Thomson, and the Requiem Mass of Gabriel Faure with an authority that convinced the New York Times that "she could hold up her end of the baton with most of her male colleagues." Tactfully shrugging off this bit of male chauvinism, Mme. Boulanger refrained from repeating her response to a similar comment when she led the Boston Symphony in 1938: "I have been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment...
...small-bore mobsters and tailed by the customary bevy of cops (including half a dozen U.S. narcotics agents who unsentimentally filmed the mourners), Charles ("Lucky") Luciano made his last appearance in his Naples parish church. The late vice lord was encased in a mahogany casket. Following a eulogyless Requiem Mass and a brief bout of fisticuffs between a Luciano pal and a photographer who tried to snap "Charlie Lucky's" last girl friend, a gaudy and gargantuan funeral carriage drawn by eight beplumed horses carried the corpse to temporary rest at the English Cemetery in suburban Poggioreale. Next stop...
...search their souls and "live" their roles, Gleason riffles through a script and is ready to go. His fellow performers both amuse and irritate him with their warmup exercises: while shooting The Hustler, Paul Newman was forever shaking his wrists like a swimmer before a race; and on the Requiem set, Anthony Quinn shadowboxes and dances up and down-"marinating," as Gleason puts it-for half an hour before a take. Gleason stands around cracking jokes and shouting: "Let's go! Let's go!" But his directors uniformly report that when they call for action, Gleason snaps instantly...
...Hope and Mort Sahl, he bases his humor on the creation of comic characters-most of them acted by himself. And as the late James Thurber liked to remark, such comedy may be amusing, but it is also serious commentary on human life. "Gleason has gorgeous creative juices," says Requiem's Producer David Susskind with purple accuracy. "He is a thundering talent-the kind of raw, brilliant talent that has gone out of style, with as much instinct in drama as in comedy...
...Requiem set last week-in the locker-room area under the grandstands at Randalls Island stadium-Gleason was finding out that moviemaking on location can be spartan. Against freezing temperatures, heat came from charcoal briquettes in braziers. Cast and crew were breathing contrails. Gleason sat, like a huge frostbitten gourd, in a camp chair labeled THE GREAT...