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...collapsed in the street, his shoulder crippled by a bullet, and was nearly trampled by a gang of passing youths. His wife tried for three hours to get him to a hospital. A five-year-old boy ran into his parents' home crying that he had a terrible pain in his stomach. His mother discovered a gaping bullet wound there. A 17-month-old girl was killed by a shot in the head as she slept outside her family's shanty. As much as an hour passed before her parents discovered what had happened...
...Dickens, Trollope and Twain. In the late 1960s, Editor Willie Morris, a Mississippian who earned his spurs at the Texas Observer, signed up a bunch of literary gunslingers - Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Larry King - to give the magazine what one critic called "sophistication with a whoop." Morris and his gang walked out in 1971 when Harper's absentee owners objected to that new direction...
...prisoner/guards--called trusties--beat other inmates with a devilish tool called a strap, a leather slab with a wooden handle that, when handled "properly," can knock a victim six inches into the air. They tortured them by running pins and razor blades along the soft flesh under their fingernails. They gang-raped them in the barred dormitories where each prisoner slept with an arm flung over his eyes to block out light from the naked light bulbs that were never turned...
...calls Brubaker the best film about a plantation prison, comparing it to Cool Hand Luke, about a chain gang, and Papillon, which showed life in a penal colony. Redford, he says, seems deliberate and intelligent, perfect for the role of the good guy, the renegade hero...
...Hill's first explicit western, and yet another version of the legends of the James and Younger brothers and their gang of bank and train robbers. It features fraternal casting: James and Stacy Keach as the Jameses; David, Keith and Robert Carradine as the Youngers; Randy and Dennis Quaid as Clell and Ed Miller; Christopher and Nicholas Guest as the Fords, who, of course, done pore Jesse in. All of them turn in finely controlled performances. David Carradine gets the luck of the lines. Almost everything he says has a nice dry wit about...