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...used to be that Saturday matinees offered dessert before dinner, a nifty Hollywood cartoon or three before the feature film. Daffy Duck would fume, but gracefully, through some dethpickable humiliation. Droopy dog would corral a wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody...
...worse is that when they're caught, the guilty complain about their sentences. Hernandez fussed and hollered because the league took away 10 percent of his salary. Quick subtraction will tell you that Hernandez is still pulling in about $1.8 million-a-year. Not bad for a would-be felon. It sure beats a prison softball game in which you solidly slap an extra-base hit up left-center field only to discover that you can't round first base because both of your ankles are shackled...
...savvy only partly answer the question of where the movement will go, however. The end of the Falwell era should inspire a sweeping re-examination of the way conservative Christians separate church and state. As it happens, one vision is already being forcefully argued by Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned prison evangelist, in his articulate new book Kingdoms in Conflict (Morrow/Zondervan; $15.95). Colson's criticisms of the Religious Right are especially noteworthy, coming as they do from a biblically conservative Southern Baptist who joins with the movement in decrying America's continued drift toward dangerous immorality and secularism...
NORMAN Mailer put a new twist on the ex-con-as-artist theme a while back when he got felon and author Jack Henry Abbott released from prison and back on the streets, where he killed again. Although director John Hancock is a little less daring in his treatment of the theme, his Weeds is one weird melange of a movie...
Steiner added yesterday that the University would get involved in such a case only if a connection existed between the felon's action and Harvard. "Therewould have to be a close correlation between theperson's personal actions outside the University"and Harvard, he said...