Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charged the daily $4 to $9 that it costs the state to keep him in jail. Few actually get into this fix; the state has collected only $30,000 from paying prisoners in the past nine years. But the possibilities are clear from the record of Lifer Roman Olezniczak (murder, bank robbery), the state's top paying con. While earning $5 a month in the Jackson prison laundry, Olezniczak has over the past ten years shelled out $13,847.51 for his keep...
...times, there is a dearth of mirth. Takeoffs on murder mystery and trouble-in-paradise movies poke along rather predictably; the idea of Antony delivering Caesar's funeral oration while struggling frantically to hold onto the unwieldy corpse is funnier in promise than performance. On the other hand, when the cast dons wigs and choirboys' surplices for a spastic rock-'n'-roll number called "I Wanna Hold Your Handel," they memorably spoof both the composer and the Beatles, with a blasting hallelujah! yeah! yeah! The evening ends in a British courtroom with a bewigged theater...
...based on Kurosawa's epic tale of the samurai. Assigned to this prickly task are Star Paul Newman, Director Martin Ritt and Photographer James Wong Howe, all covered with pay dirt from their triumphant collaboration in Hud. The result this time is a slick, shallow olio of rape, murder and violence...
...Carre Murder of Quality...
...such apathy, however, COFO workers report that the local Negro citizens are extremely excited about the five arrests of police officers and optimistic about their chances of conviction. Many of them do not exactly understand the charges against the five officers--they think the men have been charged with murder--but are simply elated over the fact that something has been done...