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...Post Script...
Gleason does his new job with remarkable ease. He memorizes at first sight. While Method actors 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...
...fidelity that both the White House and the White House press corps have come to trust. When Kennedy went down to Latin America last week with a batch of speech texts in hand, Romagna went along too; he accurately transcribed not only the slightest presidential departure from the script, but Kennedy's impromptu remarks at public receptions along the route. "Keeping the press happy is my prime objective," says Romagna. "Keeping the official file is secondary...
SHADOWS. With $40,000, no script, limited talent and plenty of gall. Director John Cassavetes and a cast made up principally of amateurs set up their camera on the sidewalks of New York, and then proceeded with all the mournful rage of inexperience to invent this movie as people invent their lives. Like life, the film has good and bad surprises; like life, it is totally alive...
Karen Stone, as the script almost line for line transcribes the tale, is a famous American actress who, in her middle 405, suddenly finds her career and her marriage interrupted-she closes out of town in an ingenue role, and not long afterward her husband dies. Wealthy and alone, she takes a luxurious flat in Rome and begins, in a quiet, middle-aged way, to live the sweet life, begins to drift. With energy to burn, she soon finds herself wishing that some man would put a match to it; but no man appears...