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...floors rather than in beds. There are plans to construct new cellblocks; meanwhile, tents are being set up to house 1,320 prisoners. Claims Texas Governor Bill Clements: "If tents are good enough for the Army, Marines and National Guard, they are good enough for the inmates." At Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois, 1,205 prisoners compete for space in a prison built to hold 640. Observes Michael Mahoney, director of a prison-reform association: "The only place in this state where you can be guaranteed a single cell is on death...
Developers do not like land leasing since it ties up their capital longer in a housing project, but they are offering the option because the housing market is currently in such sad shape. Says Lynn Krause, a builder in Joliet, Ill.: "I'd rather have people buy on a leased-land basis .than not at all." Part of the reason business is sluggish is that buyers are rebelling at the high price of a plot of land. Says Otto J. Paparazzo, a builder in Woodbury, Conn.: "Land is becoming so difficult to zone and improve that...
...most impressive thing about The Blues Brothers is its numbers: a budget in the $30 million-$38 million range, a cast of 91, a crew of 191, a stunt team of 78, and the cooperation of nearly every able-bodied Chicagoan except Dave Kingman. Elwood (Aykroyd) and Joliet Jake (Belushi) are out to reunite their band and raise enough money to keep their old parochial school open-and to do it they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha...
...Brothers. A movie is rumored to be in the works, scripted by Aykroyd. If we are lucky, there will be more Blues Brothers albums to follow, perhaps (is this too much to hope for?) with the same superb band. Meanwhile, heed the words of John Belushi, a.k.a. Joliet Jake: "I suggest you buy as many blues albums...
...picked up at the rate of 40 a night. That campaign has been taken up by local volunteers who have formed the Broadway Hookers Patrol, roaming Chicago's northeast side streets and shining flashlights in the faces of embarrassed johns and copying down their license plate numbers. Out in Joliet, Ill., the local paper hopes to cut down on the trade by printing the names of arrested johns. Included thus far on the Joliet list: a priest and a judge...