Word: jailbird
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...book about Watergate as soon as he can. His current literary plans are unknown, but four months ago, not long before he went to prison, he expressed the desire to retire to Tossa, on Spain's Costa Brava, to "do a book about an ex-U.S. jailbird who is looking for peace...
...Hollywood's favorite heavies; in Norwalk, Conn. After several years as a bit player and a starring role on Broadway, McMahon went West and was soon typecast as a mobster-a bread-and-butter persona that he relished in many of his 135 films. "I was a jailbird," he said, "behind bars so often that Western Costume Company had a 'Horace McMahon' tag sewn into a convict's striped suit." In 1949 he exchanged his prison number for a badge number, returning to the stage as Lieut. Monoghan in Detective Story. Finding his new image...
Sonny (William) Brown is a jailbird, too, but he is not bound for chow. He is going to the gym to cut an album. Though Sonny has been in prison for all but 42 months of the past 20 years, he is, at age 42, at the peak of a spectacular musical career. Master of the piano, flute, bass, guitar and sax, he also composes, arranges and conducts. Lately he has led his band in three separate dates at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. He and his band recently toured the state to rave reviews and tearful standing ovations...
...cutest jailbird I ever...
...literature that emerges from prison is as various as Mein Kampf and Pilgrim's Progress. But the authors usually share a common conviction. More often than not they are men who regard themselves as unjustly condemned. In that company, Jailbird Jean Genet is a rarity; he has no complaint against society at large, nor does he whine that he took a bum rap. His latest book, Miracle of the Rose, is neither by an outsider looking in nor an insider look-ing out. Imprisoned for theft, Genet belonged behind bars-not only legally but spiritually. He writes...