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...live-in true love, Cybill Shepherd. The Hollywood elite, including Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman, Gregory Peck, Roy Rogers, Merle Oberon and Valerie Perrine, adjourned for veal and ambrosiana amid the opulent sets used in the film. Shepherd, perhaps sensing the dour mood of the crowd, made good her getaway. "I've got another party to go to," she announced as the first dinner guests arrived, then vanished, leaving Boy Friend Bogdanovich to play host alone...
Died. William Daniel ("Deacon") Jones, 58, who drove getaway cars for Bank Robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as a teen-ager in the early 1930s and served six years in prison as their accomplice in the murder of a Texas deputy sheriff, but later claimed that the pair had threatened to kill him if he tried to leave them; of a shotgun blast in a predawn quarrel with an acquaintance; in Houston...
After a grueling 80 hours, the convicts got around to asking for guns and an armored car to use for their getaway. They offered to release nine of the hostages; they would take three women and the Rev. Joseph O'Brien, the prison chaplain, with them in their escape vehicle, and let them go later. Carrasco said that their intention was to flee to Cuba and take their problem to Fidel. "If Castro decides to shoot me, he'll be doing me a favor," said Carrasco. Dominguez declared that he too was prepared to die. Cuevas, who does...
...Hurley, had previously served as Wilkerson's lawyer). At first, the two convicts vowed that they would not release the hostages until they had been guaranteed air passage to Africa or Venezuela. Later, the pair reduced their demands to a clear path out the front door and a getaway car. At week's end authorities had refused all of their requests, and seemed willing to wait...
...mainly as a promising heir to the tough, taut Hammett-Chandler tradition. But suddenly he glimpsed the comic potential of tossing the sand of petty frustrations and human fallibility into the well-oiled machinery of the thriller. Nonviolent, Runyonesque crooks could become the victims, and everyday life the culprit. Getaway cars could stall, crucial phone numbers could slip the mind, a paralyzing snowstorm could fall on the day of a planned bank heist...