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...weekend with Wife Maureene and their children, Dees was off again last week to Raleigh, N.C.-this time by plane. He was on his way to consult with attorneys working on the case of Joan Little, 20, who escaped from a jail in Washington, N.C., after stabbing the county jailer to death. Little claims that she was defending herself against rape, and Dees was helping to organize a search for evidence to bolster her argument. Many guards in the jail, he contends, regularly extorted sexual favors from women prisoners...
...Dewhurst played a jailer's daughter in an off-Broadway revival of Edwin Mayer's 1930 Children of Darkness. Appearing opposite her was a young actor named George C. Scott.Their meeting, which Scott later described as a "bus accident," led to divorces from their spouses and their own marriage in 1959. They bought an 18th century farmhouse in South Salem, N.Y., combining acting with raising a family. In 1963, while Scott was filming The Bible in Italy, he encountered Ava Gardner, and the marriage to Dewhurst dissolved. Four years later, Scott and Dewhurst remarried. In 1971, however, Scott...
...inexplicable ascendance and her final betrayal, are barely believable. Truffaut assists her with a foil in Helene; nondescript where Camille is vibrant, proper where she is vulgar, and whose studied disapproval of the experiment masks incipient love. At the end of the film she and Camille pass at the jailer's desk during visiting hours; Camille on her way out, Helene unable to get in. As the film ends, she types the manuscript; her porch overlooks the prison yard; a song called "I Will Wait," plays over the credits. Somehow it's touching...
...negotiations must be carried out before a German investigating judge can journey to, say, Poland or Israel and question witnesses there. Langbein suggests that there are also other factors at work. Says he: "An Austrian or German was much more likely, by inadvertence or bad luck, to become a jailer than to be inside a concentration camp. The public reaction to the sight of a war criminal in the dock is therefore quite naturally one of 'There but for the grace...
...Beggar's Opera. The dominant motif-Gay's as well as Brecht's-is that money is thicker than blood. By now, the characters are classic, and they all live up to their names: Peachum (Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy highwayman who can down a wench as quickly as a cup of sack. As two of the ladies of his choice, Polly Peachum (Kathleen Widdoes) and Lucy Lockit (Marilyn Sokol) are erotic sprites...