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Talk about meeting cute. The handsome young man (Mel Gibson) bolts from his cell on Pittsburgh's death row and lands smack on top of the warden's beautiful wife (Diane Keaton). Ron Nyswaner's script is based on fact--a 1901 jailbreak masterminded by the young matriarch who had fallen in love with one of the convicts--but the tone is pure High Hollywood elegiac. This is revolution as amour fou, which Diane Keaton knows something about from her turns as Louise Bryant in Reds and the frazzled Mata Hari in The Little Drummer Girl. Keaton and Australian Director...
Prison officials charged with carrying out executions tend to be ready but hardly eager for the new era. "I'm at peace with myself," says Missouri Warden William Armontrout. "But I wouldn't want to sit here and do a whole mess of these things." He recently had the state's gas chamber repainted, and ordered a fresh stock of cyanide pellets. Armontrout stays friendly with his 28 death-row inmates, even though he may personally execute some of them soon. "I want the fellas to know I do care about them." By contrast, in neighboring Kentucky...
...machines can park words outside time. But there are situations in which that won't do. The Governor calls at one minute to midnight. Ring. Click. "Hello, this is Warden Parker. I'm attending an execution at the moment, but if you'll leave your . . . Or the President of the U.S. gets on the hot line and reaches the Kremlin's answering machine: "... So please just leave your message at the sound of the boom...
Madison, 32, a Colorado state wildlife officer, or game warden, is worried. Too many bull elk are being killed in the fall hunting season. Consequently, he believes, fewer than half of the cow elk in his district are giving birth to calves in spring. That is much too low; 70% is best to maintain the herd properly...
Inside the walls, Reverend Moon is running his church from his cell. Ironically, Warden Dennis Luther has forbidden Moon from Proselytizing to his fellow prisoners, citing a regulation which bars prisoners from operating their "businesses" within the prison. The Federal government has elearly decided that the religion of Reverend Sun Myung Moon is business...