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...black during the past few years. Affirmed has solved that problem. Some of the Wolfsons' horses are kept in Kentucky, where Louis is respected as a smart and honest man. Says one of Kentucky's leading racing figures: "He went from a leading owner to a jailbird, to a man who couldn't race, to a leading owner - and he never cried. I have a lot of respect for him." Says Editor Kent Hollingsworth of The Blood-Horse: "When he looks at you with those terribly sincere blue eyes, you believe...
WHAT IS SURPRISING is the amount of very real humor in Survival, if humor can be broadly defined as those things that keep life from becoming too bleak. There are songs (performed by the Jailbird Quartet) and moments of friendship; survival requires emotional as well as physical effort in a place like Soweto. These moments of beauty underline the basic structure of life there: the songs predict the day of liberation, and friendships are based on recognition of a common struggle. But they also keep the play from becoming a simple polemical statement. politics and art usually...
...story of Bobby, a jailbird composer (Peter Fonda), whose best song is stolen and recorded by a country-and-western star who hears the piece when he drops in on the pen to cut a concert record (as many such singers do) in an authentic environment. Paroled, Fonda sets out to claim credit and royalties for his creation, and is falsely accused of wounding the thief in a scuffle over the matter. He then falls in with Tina (Susan Saint James), who has learned most of the music business's sharper angles as an underpaid back-up singer...
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...Spanish christened it Isla de los Alcatraces, Isle of Pelicans. But to generations of moviegoers and newspaper readers, the island in San Francisco Bay has been better known as the Rock, the ultimate roost for a tougher kind of fowl -the jailbird. Alcatraz was decommissioned as a prison in 1970 and is now part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. Since it was opened to the public by the National Park Service last October, the U.S. equivalent of Devil's Island has become San Francisco's biggest tourist attraction...