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...they would have nothing to do but ponder their acts, repent and reform. By 1825, New York had begun an entire penal system that combined individual cells and total silence with floggings, hard labor in fields and quarries, undeviating routine, and subsistence level food and shelter. As the first warden of Sing Sing had said, "Reformation of the criminal could not possibly be effected until the spirit of the criminal was broken." The nineteenth century penitentiary produced more mental breakdowns, suicides, and deaths than repentance. Dickens, writing of the prisons he had seen in America, said, "Very...
...fast bedroom farce. George's women swirl in and out of the shop where he works as resident genius and prima donna, in and out of the addled life he can barely control. Jackie (Julie Christie), a former girl friend, is currently the mistress of Lester (Jack Warden), an investor whom George hopes to hit for money to open his own shop. Meanwhile, George is conducting a fairly frenzied dalliance with Lester's wife Felicia (Lee Grant). His more or less regular girl of the moment, a model named Jill (Goldie Hawn), just tries to get a moment...
...regret its ultimate failure. The overpriced lassitude of Southern California living is well caught. Much of the dialogue has a keen edge ("I've been cutting too much hair lately," George rues at one point. "I'm losing all my concept"). The acting-especially Grant and Warden and Carrie Fisher, who appears as their nubile daughter-is well observed and sprightly. But Shampoo wants it both ways. It wants a few laughs off George and wants, too, to bare his sensitive, desperate soul. It turns out that he is a figure looking for pity, and it hardly seems...
...chamber to 62 men. Two women facing execution are confined in another Raleigh prison. The rapid influx has long since filled the 42 dingy cells in Central's F-block that were originally designated death row, and some inmates are being held in other cell blocks. Says Warden Sam Garrison: "If this keeps up, we will have to start doubling up the men in the cells...
...there is that note of redeeming social value to contend with. Screen writer Wynn (son of Keenan, grandson of Ed) has in the person of the warden wickedly parodied every businessman who ever exhorted his sales force with sporting metaphors, every overstuffed daddy who has lived out his fantasies of athletic glory by impersonating Vince Lombardi on a Little League field. The difference here is that the man has real guns, real power to extend and with hold favors. He is a genuinely frightening cautionary figure. It is too bad that the lessons his behavior might teach are often lost...