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...second disappointment, his lawyers will again challenge the parole reversal, arguing that the reliance on public opinion is unconstitutional. Fain is not the only California prisoner with a direct stake in the outcome. Another is Gregory Powell, whose murder of a Los Angeles policeman was the basis of Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field. He is due for release in June. Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's assassin, becomes eligible for parole in 1984, and somewhat further in the future, Murderer Charles Manson too may be up for consideration. But if their fates are in the public...
After serving for more than a decade as a detective in the Los Angeles police department, Joseph Wambaugh (The New Centurions, The Choirboys, The Glitter Dome), 45, permanently traded in his pistol for a pen. When the city of Houston began a search for a new police chief, Wambaugh's name turned up on the list of eleven candidates put together by the mayor's office. According to an aide of Mayor Kathy Whitmire, not everyone on the list is a serious contender for the $81,000-a-year job, but no one will be immediately ruled...
Hecht's business, which grossed $1.5 million in 1981, is not without its perils. Recalls Hecht: "A woman in Kansas ordered Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, thinking it must be about a church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent...