Word: charri
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Died. Henri Charrière, 67, alias "Papillon" (Butterfly), whose 1969 book of the same name chronicled his nine hair-raising escape attempts from France's antiquated dungeons in French Guiana; of throat cancer; in Madrid. Charrière, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1931 for murder, finally broke out of Devil's Island in 1941 and found asylum in Caracas, where he became a gold prospector, shrimp fisherman, bar owner and eventually a best-selling author, with 14 million book sales worldwide...
Devil's Island was supposed to be one of the world's tightest prisons. And one of the world's tightest movie sets is the location in Jamaica where Papillon, Henri Charrière's bestselling account of his escape, is being filmed...
Actor Steve McQueen, wearing his maximum-security Brillo-pad beard as Prisoner Charrière, has decreed that there will be no interviews, no visitors. Except, of course, Ali MacGraw, Steve's partner in The Getaway, whom he calls "my old lady...
...Papillon, Charri...
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