Word: parolee
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What does John Walker Lindh's plea bargain - in which the America Taliban plead guilty to two of the 10 charges brought against him by the U.S. government, a deal that brings up to 20 years in prison without parole - mean for other American citizens accused of links to the...
Showtime has paying viewers. It has the freedom to show naughty bits. So where is its Sopranos? Not here, though this grim look at parolees and their watchers tries. Scott Cohen (Gilmore Girls' cuddly Mr. Medina) shows some edge as a controlling parole officer, and guest star Red Buttons shines as a mobster in a who's-controlling-whom relationship with Cohen. But the writing is flat--like the clumsily topical terrorism subplot--and co-star Rob Morrow, as an ex-drug dealer trying to avoid the thug life, makes the least convincing felon since Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy...
...itself as the network that makes shows the others can't, picked up The Wire (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), a sprawling octopus of a story that follows a single drug investigation over 13 episodes. (Later this month Showtime adds Street Time, an earnest but somewhat tone-deaf series about parolees and parole officers.) Creator David Simon says The Wire is "not a cop show" but a series about how the drug trade and the war against it have become institutions that chew up and spit out the people who work in them...
SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 58, ex-FBI counterintelligence expert who pleaded guilty, in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, to providing thousands of classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Russians; to life in prison with no possibility of parole; in a federal court in Alexandria, Va. Believed to be one of...
DIED. OTIS BLACKWELL, 70, prolific songwriter whose compositions have sold more than 185 million records and provided hits for such performers as Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Billy Joel; in Nashville. Among his greatest songs were rock 'n' roll classics like Presley's All Shook Up and Don...