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...racist ideology that, surprisingly, he doesn't even subscribe to. Gary Sinise, in one of his best performances, portrays the four-term Governor and three-time presidential candidate's Faustian descent from liberal to conservative rabble-rouser as a human tragedy. And director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz) uses all his old tricks (handheld cameras, black-and-white scenes, jarringly quick cuts and time jumps) along with some newer ones (slipping Sinise, Forrest Gump-style, into real TV footage) to keep the history immediate...
Since 1979, the Orioles have been the property of Washington Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, famed counsel to Joe McCarthy, Jimmy Hoffa and the Birdman of Alcatraz. No local buyer could be found when Williams bought the team for $12 million; now it is said to be worth $60 million. Williams' general manager until last October, Hank Peters, insists that "winning and losing are both team efforts" and the blame for the Orioles' decline belongs to "me, the owner, the manager, the players and the farm system." But the emphasis should be on the owner. Like...
...human-animal bond has long lifted spirits at home, and now is bringing that touch of hearth to institutional settings. In U.S. prisons, the Birdman of Alcatraz has numerous descendants. In Lima, Ohio, at a facility for mentally ill inmates, part of the courtyard resembles a barnyard. Sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits -- even deer -- roam around. "We're finding the prisoners who have pets are less violent," says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from...
...least the birdman got to sit out the third period in a comfortable Ithaca City Jail cell. The Big Red wasn't so lucky...
...string of Technicolor swashbucklers in the mid-1950s with the low-budget, Oscar-winning Marty; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. Hecht was a struggling agent when he teamed up with Actor Burt Lancaster; during the next 15 years, the pair made such notable films as Separate Tables and Birdman of Alcatraz...