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...holy misfits are given the chance to realize or cheat their destinies. The risks this German film maker takes - with his subject matter, with his and his company's safety, with an audience's willingness to accede to his demons - make a reckless ad venturer like Francis Coppola seem stodgy by comparison. For Heart of Glass Herzog hypnotized his actors, and on the receptive viewer his films have a similar effect: their spectral landscapes, brain-fevered protagonists and eruptions of lyricism can weave a mesmerizing spell. In achievement and originality his movies stand above and apart from most...
Perhaps Seigler, already convicted three times for robbery, calculated that if he was convicted for capital murder, he might be sent to the electric chair like Frank Coppola, a fellow Virginian executed two weeks ago. At 7:25 p.m., Seigler, ushered into the courtroom of Judge William E. Spain, accepted the deal. The jury, which had sent word of a verdict, was kept waiting while Spain approved the new plea. After Seigler was led away, the judge invited the jury into the room and informed them of the guilty plea. One juror slumped in a chair, while several others just...
...prisoner persuaded his family not to intervene, but Attorney J. Gray Lawrence, whom Coppola had fired, filed an appeal anyway. It was rejected by a federal district court judge. But with 8½ hours to go, Judge John Butzner of the U.S. court of appeals in Richmond called a halt, saying that the years on death row might have robbed Coppola of the capacity to decide the question and noting that a constitutional review of Virginia's death penalty was pending in another case. Governor Charles Robb ordered an immediate appeal. Two state attorneys flew to Washington...
...Coppola's execution was the first in the U.S. since March 1981 and only the fifth since the 1976 Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment constitutional. More than 1,000 prisoners now wait on death row. Two weeks ago, New Jersey became the 37th state to adopt a death penalty. Due to the appeals process, few inmates are expected to be executed soon. But by late 1984, experts predict, there may be a surge in executions. By then, perhaps the Supreme Court will have worked out a more seemly system for deciding the many last-minute appeals...
...year-old Tulsa schoolgirl. "I was reading horse books then," says Hinton, who started using her initials so boys would also read her works. To date, her four gritty novels have sold 7 million copies, and all are in some stage of development for films. Francis Ford Coppola has finished shooting The Outsiders, and is currently making Rumble Fish. That Was Then, This Is Now has been optioned; Tex, starring Teen Idol Matt Dillon, has been released by Walt Disney Productions. The married Hinton, who owns a horse named Toyota, has no plans to write adult fiction. Says...