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...greatest Chaplin films, Modern Times and City Lights, are at Park Square over the weekend, and Papillon, with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen, about prison life and escape, starts at Beacon Hill. Have a Merry Christmas...
Died. Henri Charrière, 67, alias "Papillon" (Butterfly), whose 1969 book of the same name chronicled his nine hair-raising escape attempts from France's antiquated dungeons in French Guiana; of throat cancer; in Madrid. Charrière, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1931 for murder, finally broke out of Devil's Island in 1941 and found asylum in Caracas, where he became a gold prospector, shrimp fisherman, bar owner and eventually a best-selling author, with 14 million book sales worldwide...