Word: jailbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quare Fellow is Irish prison slang for a condemned man. Around the imminent hanging of such a man, who himself never appears on stage, Irish Playwright Brendan Behan, sometime I.R.A. man and jailbird (see SHOW BUSINESS), has set down a clearly on-the-spot account. As in that memoir of another Irish Prisoner-Playwright, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Quare Fellow records the atmosphere, the emotions, the tensions of convicts and gaolers as execution nears. But, in Behan's play, as atmospheric pressure mounts, the need for outlets intensifies. Voices are raised, and fists; a half-brutal, half...
...personality streak that he shared: a sense of persecution by the crowd. "When we talked," Kokoschka recalled last week, "it was only about the stupidity of society. We were both despised at the time. Schoenberg received many rotten eggs in the face, and I used to be called a jailbird...
This is a tale about a reluctant swami. The setting is Malgudi, a sleepy little Indian town dedicated to daydreaming nonviolence. One of Malgudi's daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled villager says, "I have a problem, sir" and Raju hears him out, the stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile...
Face in the Crowd (at the University Theatre through Saturday). Elia Kazan slashes furiously at TV and the Madison Avenue promotion men in this tale of a good-for-nothing jailbird who becomes a potent national force. Andy Griffiths gives a magnificent performance, and Patricia Neal turns in the finest job of her career...
Guest Stir. In Dallas, Jailbird Bobby Calhoun showed up masked on Confession, a local TV show, complained that he could not go straight because "police pick me up every time they see me," was arrested five days later when cops searched the trunk of his car, found part of a stolen safe...