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...just turned 17, is home. So are his older brother, two of his friends--and a bag of marijuana. "Three strikes and you're in," says Stewart. Jail, that is. Two plainclothes policemen who accompany Stewart confiscate the bag and run background checks on the boy's friends. When Stewart visits the apartment the next night to make sure the kid is still honoring the curfew and to search the place, he finds on the wall of a closet the roster of the Argyle Street Ballers, a small gang that sells drugs. "Now we know the players," he explains...
Like the modern jazzmen who were his contemporaries, he helped define cool for postwar America. He had hoboed across the country as a teenager, got into movies taking anonymous horse falls and survived a setup drug bust (he described jail as "just like Palm Springs without the riffraff"). Stardom, he implied, was just another of life's little absurdities to be sardonically observed and fatalistically played out. As the best of his screen characters did. There's a marvelously stunned stoicism in his confrontation with the inner furies that haunt him in Pursued. And when he turned to outright psychopathy...
...insisted. "Without further action, the license would not be restored." But in boxing, nothing is forever except Don King. Tyson can reapply annually to reenter the ring. The house of 'unarmed combat' is hardly built on principles: the sport was waiting eagerly when Iron Mike, rapist, got out of jail, and it may not take long for boxing's rapacious governors to grow ravenous for the biggest draw of the decade...
Ulee Jackson (Peter Fonda) keeps bees, which may account for the cautious way he moves through life. He is a widower, which surely explains his pensive silences. His son is in jail, his daughter-in-law is in need of rescue from drugs and low company, and his granddaughters, who live with him, require large helpings of love, patience and understanding. All that, doubtless, justifies the bitter flashes that occasionally illuminate his frozen taciturnity...
...costs thousands of dollars a year to keep a person in jail. Those who advocate life imprisonment should pay for it out of their own pocket. I would rather spend my tax dollars on something productive for society, such as a new hospital wing, better roads or books for my kid's school. If I want a roof over my head, I have to come up with the money for it. Why should I have to pay for a murderer's amenities for life? TOM BRADFORD McCall, Idaho...