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Michael Levine, Heston's publicist, believes the actor's outspokenness has damaged his career. "There's a reverse blacklist," he says. "It is far better in Hollywood to admit you're a drug addict than a conservative." But Heston, having just wrapped his 75th film, Gideon's Webb, shrugs off the concern. "People in the film community think being politically active means getting on Air Force One and going to dinner at the White House," he says. "I've scorned a few liberals in this town, and I get a kick out of that." Only six weeks ago, he called...
Lewis' experience proved invaluable in writing his classic book Gideon's Trumpet, a 1964 bestseller about the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision that established a constitutional right to legal counsel in criminal cases...
Lewis has always championed the underdog, whether it be Chasanow, Gideon or the Bosnians he often writes about today...
...Lewis won his second Pulitzer for his articles on the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainright, which established the right of indigent defendants to have public defenders...
Lewis has worked for various newspapers besides the Times and written three books on law and society: Gideon's Trumpet, about the landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade, about changes in American race relations; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment...