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...willing to volunteer for "arrest" duty, hour-by-hour plans for sit-ins at hotels, and demonstrations in the communities where hotel owners lived. It is one thing for hotel owners to ignore a picket line outside his hotel, but if strikers march in front of their home or handcuff themselves to a hotel staircase, disrupting business, they will begin to worry...
...mean you could have taken your hand out of that handcuff at any time?" an incredulous Eddie asks Roger after the rabbit slips his shackles. "Not at any time," comes the retort. "Only when it was funny." Such are the Toontown laws of physics; they do not always apply to this movie. Every framed frame is beguiling, as befits a pioneering project made by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and ace Animator Richard Williams. But not all the gags -- even those quoted from such Bugs Bunny classics as Falling Hare and Rabbit Seasoning -- have the limber...
...thumps, as the intruders handcuffed themselves to cameras and scenery, Lawley plowed ahead undeterred. "I am afraid that we have been rather invaded," she announced calmly. "In the meantime, if you can avoid the background noise, we will bring you the news if we can." Witchell, seeing a demonstrator handcuff herself to Lawley's desk, took intrepid -- although sadly unvideotaped -- action: "I sat on her and put my hand over her mouth." Police eventually removed the unwelcome guests, who were released later without being charged...
...seen Levin alive in Arizona since his disappearance, the jurors were convinced by damaging testimony from Hunt's associates, as well as a seven-page recipe for murder in Hunt's hand. Titled "at Levin's TO DO," the gruesome job sheet listed tasks such as "tape mouth, handcuff, put gloves on, explain situation, kill dog." Hunt, 27, faces the death penalty or life imprisonment. Said he: "My only responsibility now is to keep my chin up. That's what I do best...
...months." Today some kids in Appleton still feed off the excitement evoked by the name Houdini. Thirteen-year-old Bill Brehm, an aspiring magician, is one of them. "I'd like to know how he did some of his tricks," confides Brehm, who has started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like when he was handcuffed and got into a box and was thrown over the side of a bridge into a river. How did he get out? He was just an amazing person. Anyone who is a magician and dies on Halloween has got to be amazing...