Word: burling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Incarceration will do that to you. But the celebs who saw the film, shot entirely in America's largest prison (situated on a former slave plantation in Louisiana), gushed with praise. "Where can I get a subscription to the Angolite?" asked Anne Heche about the prison's magazine. Warden BURL CAIN, left, gave the film crew unprecedented access to all areas of his Big House, and the film's director, Jonathan Stack, found so much material there that he's now working on a film focusing on one of the inmates. He's also got a whole new crew...
...crowd's good-natured cheering seems to indicate that the majority are rooting for the cons not to get trampled. Warden Burl Cain hopes his men, with their sometimes accomplished bull wrestling and barrel jumping, are leaving a lasting impression. "These inmates don't have horns and a fork and a tail," says Cain. "The rodeo shows that they can be rehabilitated--that they're real people...
...DIED. BURL IVES, 85, goateed crooner and actor beloved by generations of children for his mellifluous renditions of Frosty the Snowman and The Blue Tail Fly; in Anacortes, Washington. Among the best known of Ives' many stage and screen roles were his starring appearance as Big Daddy in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and his narration of the undying holiday TV special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer...