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...street life is marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...
...this up," he told the Washington Post. "If anything, the prosecution has shown that they have faced up to their responsibilities to the accused and the court." Earlier this summer, Presser himself escaped indictment on the ghost-employee case when Justice officials ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him. They also cited Presser's role as an informant...
Along the way, he meets up with an escaped convict (who's still got the cuffs on his hands,) a Lexas waitress who wishes she could go to France, and her monstrous husband, who thinks the two of them have been fooling around...
...doctors also requested new trials on the basis that the judge had violated their due process rights in his instructions to the jury. They argued that the judge was wrong in refusing to tell the jurors that, in order to convict on rape charges, they must find that Hussain and Lefkowitz knew the victim did not want to have intercourse...
...details of book contracts and postponed deadlines. But there are priceless private scenes: Mailer asking his mother to judge which of five obscenities is the strongest, for example, and a sobering public confrontation when the author meets a hostile press after testifying for Jack Henry Abbott in the ex-convict's trial for the murder of Richard Adan, a Greenwich Village waiter. Mostly the book is grand gossip, a sort of Portable Hamptons, Everyman's own private literary soiree for a long afternoon in the hammock...