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...today's prison that is all but nonexistent. A prisoner who refuses to enter a rehabilitative program almost always has to suffer either a longer term or significantly poorer living conditions because of his refusal. "Everybody I know gets rehabilitated the moment he gets caught," sniffs a California ex-con...
Although Shaw has appeared in over two dozen movies (he was the conned con man in The Sting), the theater is his true territory. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he starred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and, on Broadway, in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Old Times. Pinter returned the compliment by directing The Man in the Glass Booth, a play Shaw adapted from one of his own five novels. For all this, Shaw still resents what he calls "the English snobbishness about the superiority of acting onstage." He likes...
...Firm Evidence. On the more mundane penny and pound level, the pro and con arguments seem to consist, as Tory Shadow Foreign Secretary Reginald Maudling put it, "of diametrically opposed conclusions drawn from the same inadequate facts." Pro-Marketeers, rather indifferently led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, himself a convert to that position, argue that continued membership will lead to more jobs and lower food prices for Britons. Anti-Marketeers on both far right and far left say that it will lead to fewer jobs and higher food prices. And an exhaustive study by the National Institute for Economic...
Oscar (Jack Nicholson) and Nicky (Warren Beatty) would figure very high up on any list of incompetent con men. It takes some of Oscar's and Nicky's own talent for self-destructiveness to bungle a story about their mismanaged capers, and Mike Nichols has spared no effort to this end. The Fortune is a bleak, frostbitten farce, desperate for invention and rather a sham...
...Madeleine Morton, owner of the best restaurant in Saigon, the Guillaume Tell, greeted her customers. "I am trying to go to Bridgeport, Con-nec-ticut," she announced. At 12:20 two black buses finally arrived and were quickly filled...