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...pages; $45) is a splendid case in point. Photographer Daniel Philippe has looked again at 19 of these fairyland fortresses, both from the sky and the ground, in snow and in bloom. There is formidable Chambord, which may have been planned by Leonardo da Vinci, and delicate Azay-le-Rideau, the creation of a banker who went too far when he mixed state money with his own. The aerial exposures suggest that some of the châteaux were designed for the eyes of god: the intricate geometry of the Renaissance gardens at Villandry can be fully appreciated only from aloft...
...doesn't faze convict-journalist WILBERT RIDEAU that he won't be able to attend this year's Oscars, even though his searing look at the hopelessness of prison life, The Farm: Angola, USA, is up for an Academy Award as best documentary film and will be encored on the Arts & Entertainment Network on March 15 and March 20. "One thing about prison is it keeps things in perspective," says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. "The award would be nice, but it won't change...
...doesn?t faze convict-journalist Wilbert Rideau that he won?t be able to attend this year?s Oscars, even though his searing look at the hopelessness of prison life, "The Farm: Angola, USA," is up for an Academy Award as best documentary film and will be encored on the Arts & Entertainment Network on March 15 and March 20. ?One thing about prison is it keeps things in perspective,? says co-director Rideau, who is 57 and has served 38 years in Louisiana prisons on a life sentence for murder. ?The award would be nice, but it won?t change...
...Wilbert Rideau, 51, has been imprisoned since 1962 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, serving a life sentence for murder. During that time, Rideau has gained renown as a journalist, author and advocate of prison reform. In a conversation with TIME Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury, Rideau gave a scathing critique of the prison system...
...inmates to listen. He also made sure that illiterate inmates -- fully 70% of the prison population -- got help filling out the forms. "The spirit of cooperation that developed between inmates, and between inmates and security, was unheard-of in the long history of Angola," noted the Angolite. Editor Rideau still marvels. "He chose to help inmates. That's not in his job description...