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Although a retrial usually benefits the defense, which then knows the prosecution's case, that advantage may be lost if the defendant takes the stand a second time, especially if he tells a new story. Armed with the first trial record, the prosecutor can trap him into contradictions. Yet if a defendant does not testify, the jury, despite all judicial admonitions, will probably infer guilt. Bailey, however, interviewed the first-trial jurors and was convinced that his client's rather arch answers on the witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial...
Sneaky Beer. Many singers continue their eating and drinking while performing, following the tradition of Soprano Giulia Grisi, who, whenever she had to fall onstage, always landed near a trap door so that a stagehand could sneak her a glass of beer. In the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Electra, Birgit Nilsson's search for Agamemnon's ax is really a quest for a ginger ale stashed under a rock...
...reality in 2067, when the U.S. population tops 1 billion, and it takes three weeks to travel the traffic-jammed four miles from New York City's Battery Park to Times Square. (Actually, a lot of New Yorkers feel that 2067 is here already.) Caught in "The People Trap" are Stuart Whitman, Vera Miles, Connie Stevens and Lee Grant...
...year is 2067, a good century away-but the scene seems uncomfortably close to many Americans. In The People Trap, an ABC program to be shown next week, the U.S. population tops 1 billion. Just to stay alive takes a big dose of chutzpah, you shouldn't get trampled to death. What will most interest many Americans, though, is the time it takes to drive the four miles from Manhattan's Battery Park to Times Square: three weeks. Weeks? Today, some people can make it in nearly three hours. But there is nothing intrinsically unbelievable about the figure...
...Summer. As the faithful friend, longtime Svengali, and now the husband of Melina Mercouri (they were married last May), Director Jules Dassin periodically attempts to trap some of her wild Greek energy on film. His tempestuous Trilby, in her sixth Dassin movie, proves just one thing: the family that plays together does not alway make a Never on Sunday...