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...clone of Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, but with a salacious twist. The word censored in the title was intended to turn viewers into video voyeurs. The host, Dick Clark, slick and eternally adolescent, sniggered as clips were shown of an elephant's trunk probing a zoo warden's crotch and an overly affectionate orangutan tweaking a newswoman's breast.. On a clip from Hollywood Squares, the late Paul Lynde replied to a question about what can make a monkey cry: "Learning that Tarzan swings both ways." This was hardly a blooper, and considering...
...daily interminable monotony of living in prison, with the constant risk of being killed by fellow inmates." His assumptions about those he met were frequently challenged by the hard facts: "I would talk to some very sweet, kind-looking woman," he recalls, "and afterward would learn from the warden that she had killed every member of her family." He still exchanges letters with some prisoners. For this week's cover, Andersen probed the profound issues surrounding the ultimate punishment for a prisoner: execution. "The death penalty," Andersen concludes, "dramatizes the classic conflict between high-minded reason and visceral emotions...
Brisbon's eleven months on death row have been quiet, compared with his Stateville years, when he took part in 15 attacks on inmates and guards, instigated at least one prison riot, trashed a courtroom during a trial and hit a warden with a broom handle. "I'm no bad dude," he says, "just an antisocial individual." The third of 13 children, Brisbon thinks that his upbringing by a strict black Muslim father made him different: "I was taught to be a racist and not like whites. As I grew up, I decided I didn't like...
...friend and former mentor. Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden), hopes the case will bring in some cash without much effort. The Archdiocese which runs the hospital where the accident took place seems willing to settle out of court and keep the doctors' names out of the papers. But Galvin, a crusader against the corruption of the Irish. Catholic world in which he lives, refuses to take the easy route. He rejects the offer and insists on taking the case to court, thus making the verdict of the court, whatever it may be, more than a judgement of the suit...
...Warden Jack Pursley posed the traditional question, and Brooks, 40, did indeed have some last words. He turned to his friend Vanessa Sapp, 27, and said he loved her, prayed aloud to Allah, turned again to Sapp and told her, "Be strong." At that, Warden Pursley gave the cue ("We are ready") to a technician hidden in the next room, and a fast-acting barbiturate came flowing through one of the IV tubes. Brooks yawned, shut his eyes and wheezed. Within minutes, Brooks, who had been a heroin user, was dead from a drug overdose meted out by the Texas...