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Most Americans' images of prison life have probably been shaped by Hollywood, from James Cagney's White Heat to Clint Eastwood's Escape from Alcatraz. TIME's Special Section this week sets out to capture the raw reality of both prison life and the people subjected to it. To this end, Staff Photographer Neil Leifer took his cameras over a period of a year to six state prisons, including one for women, and a federal penitentiary. He returned with an extraordinary collection of several thousand photographs...
...called the forgery Pennies from Heaven. Now he's pulled off his most daring heist. He's stolen from the tough-guy movies of the '40s, intercutting scenes of himself as a private eye with scenes from some fine old films, with some fine old friends: Cagney in White Heat, Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire, Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number...
...Hoskins is a galvanically repellent actor. Hoskins (seen on PBS in BBC's Pennies from Heaven and Othello) has a torpedo-shaped head attached to a bulldog's body. He moves, and barks out his dialogue, with the arrogant energy of Cagney and Robinson, but with precisely none of their charm. In The Long Good Friday, Hoskins gets to play a Little Hitler of the London underworld out to make a killing in real estate while some mysterious rivals make more spectacular killings of his henchmen. Director John Mackenzie's idea of subtle menace is to show...
...have developed private territories, holding court in fixed locations where their friends can seek them out, or their enemies-the genial shufflers with a copy of Baseball Digest under one arm and a fiendish trivia question up their sleeve. Eddie Fegan, waggling his cane with the stylishness of Jimmy Cagney, presides over the front row behind third base. Bob Caterino, wearing his jacket with the legend SOMERVILLE BOXING CLUB across the chest, perches on a green utility box way behind first base-the fighter on his stool, still ready for all comers...
...virginity until she was 31 and wears a .38 under her judicial robes; Father Hugh Campion, a "celebrity priest" who won $100,000 on a quiz show and went on to star in Father Hugh's Kitchen, "the highest-rated cooking program on the air"; Private Detective Marty Cagney ("Discreetly determining what was done-where & with whom"), who compiles the adulterous dirt on Dutch's exwife; Cagney's daughter Mary who dumps a rich husband and opens a gay bar; and Clarice Campion, Father Hugh's sister, who leaves a convent to open a sex-information...