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Hoffa either ignored the board's clean-up recommendations or evaded them by appealing to higher courts-with significant success. He also stalled. The former Hoffa-appointed monitor, Daniel Maher, started skipping meetings. His successor, William ("Buffo") Bufalino, a Hoffa crony and head of a Detroit Teamster local that was described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying on working men and women," started walking out of meetings. Strangely, insurgent-appointed Monitor Lawrence T. Smith was hard to find when meetings were called, and he accused Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting...
...sentimental. Yet John Fante's script, based on his novel, is full of happy touches, and Richard Quine's direction makes the most of them and of his players' talents as well. In his first Hollywood part, Salvatore Baccaloni, the Met's famed basso buffo, is a macaronical marvel. And Judy Holliday, in her funniest picture, surpasses herself as a comedienne...
...fight! Couldn't make love to anybody! He was tied down. The whole orientation of psychoanalysis has developed out of the patient's recumbent position." Dr. Moreno punctuated his remarks with colorful gestures, and his gusto of delivery could qualify him for another role--that of basso buffo...
...Contralto Risë Stevens' attractive singing as Octavian was marred only by her unattractive grimacing. Even so, with Veteran Bass Eugene List as Baron Ochs, and with the help of two new imports, Dresden's Coloratura Erna Berger as a pert, brilliant Sophie, and Vienna's Buffo-Tenor Peter Klein as Valzacchi, Der Rosenkavalier added up to an opening-night success...
...Barber of Seville, now in rehearsal, he telescoped from a three-and-a-half to a two-and-a-half-hour opera (including intermissions), put in spoken dialogue, built up the lesson scene between Rosina and the Count by adding comedy lines, changed Dr. Bartolo from a typical Italian buffo character (quavering, senile old man with red putty nose) into a near likeness of Cinemactor Frank Morgan. Dr. Bartolo's first aria he changed from a scolding song into a Gilbert-&-Sullivanian self-analysis...